Senior Attorney

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requisition no:880575

agency: business and professional regulation

working title: senior attorney -

senior attorney
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* open competitive *

license efficiently. Regulate fairly. Florida counts on dbpr to ensure a lot of important matters are handled well. They range from the safety of food service to the integrity of real estate transactions, to the transparency of condominium governance, and of course, the qualifications of licensure that ensure work requiring a skilled professional is performed safely and sufficiently. Our stakeholders include these professionals and their customers alike.

under the direction of secretary melanie s. Griffin, the agency oversees many of florida’s professions and industries in the areas above, and many more which can be seen on our website:  .

• serves as the department’s in-house legal advisor to senior management on all employment-related matters as well as rule making and development;
• works closely with the office of human resources, advising on legal sufficiency regarding disciplinary actions, ada accommodations, fchr and eeoc responses, workers’ compensation, fmla eligibility, veterans’ preference issues, and many other issues;
• develops and provides internal training on a vast array of employment-related laws and policies;
• assists with matters relating to public records;
• serves as the department’s legal liaison with outside counsel who defend the department in employment, premises liability, and automobile liability cases;
• develops litigation strategy and typically attends depositions, mediations, arbitrations, hearings, and trials on the department’s behalf;
• represents the department before the public employee relations commission (perc), the department of commerce (doc), the equal opportunity commission (eeoc), the division of administrative hearings (doah), the florida commission on human relations (fchr), and other forums;
• coordinates activities undertaken on behalf of the department by outside counsel including representation provided from the office of the attorney general, and representation provided under insurance coverage through the division of risk management;
• provides briefings to the secretary, chief of staff, deputy secretaries, general counsel and division management on issues of importance handled by outside counsel and provides possible impacts of proposed legislative changes;
• develops and drafts policies and rules;
• serves as the primary liaison to the joint administrative procedures committee (japc);
• files proposed rules for adoption with the department of state (dos);
• oversees the department's annual rule review and regulatory plan;
• assists and trains agency rules coordinators;
• other duties as assigned by the supervisor and general counsel.

• serves as the department’s in-house legal advisor to senior management on all employment-related matters as well as rule making and development;
• works closely with the office of human resources, advising on legal sufficiency regarding disciplinary actions, ada accommodations, fchr and eeoc responses, workers’ compensation, fmla eligibility, veterans’ preference issues, and many other issues;
• develops and provides internal training on a vast array of employment-related laws and policies;
• assists with matters relating to public records;
• serves as the department’s legal liaison with outside counsel who defend the department in employment, premises liability, and automobile liability cases;
• develops litigation strategy and typically attends depositions, mediations, arbitrations, hearings, and trials on the department’s behalf;
• repr…