Division Chief – Wing Luke Civil Rights Division, Seattle

Description

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About the Attorney General’s Office All employees and volunteers of the Washington State Attorney General’s Office serve a crucial role in the protection of the state, its people and resources, thereby providing an incomparable degree of job satisfaction. The AGO is composed of diverse, collegial and supremely talented legal professionals who are resolute in their commitment to public service and share the common goal of advancing the public interest.

For more information about the AGO, we encourage you to review the Office’s Annual Report which can be found .

The Office appreciates the benefits of a healthy life‑work balance as well as a respectful, inclusive and diverse workplace. Successful candidates will join an Office in which every person is committed to providing exceptional legal services and where individual professional development is encouraged and supported. The exceptional benefits of joining the AGO include:

• Transparent salary – $187,600

• A competitive benefit package that includes:

• Affordable medical plan options, including vision benefits,

• Dental benefits covered 100%

• Retirement plan (employee/employer contribution)

• Deferred Compensation Plan

• 11 paid holidays and 1 personal holiday

• 8 hours sick leave accrual per month

• 9.33 hours to start, then up to 16.67 hours of annual leave accrual per month (based on years of state service)

• Flex schedules and telecommuting options

• The AGO will pay the general bar dues of someone who begins their assignment on or before January 31st

• Qualifying Employer for Public Loan Forgiveness Program

• A formal AAG mentoring program that complements the AGO’s inherently collegial and supportive environment

• Health and wellness program

• Training and career development program that provides CLE credits and is recognized for its excellence and efficacy by AGOs nationwide

* The Washington State Attorney General’s Office is seeking an attorney committed to equal rights under the law and who has significant management, litigation and outreach experience to serve as the Division Chief for the .The Wing Luke Civil Rights Division is located in Seattle and consists of eighteen attorneys, five investigators, and ten professional staff members.

The Division works to protect the rights of Washingtonians to live and participate in our communities without discrimination and is consistently engaged in some of the most significant investigations and litigation handled by the Attorney General’s Office. For example, we have taken the lead in challenging federal overreach, including the government’s attempt to ban and do away with . The Division regularly takes action to protect Washingtonians’s right to be free from discrimination on the bases of protected characteristics including: or .

We challenge unconstitutional and discrimination engaged in by nationwide companies like , , , and . We have successfully challenged labor practices at the and in industries ranging from to .We work closely with the Solicitor General’s Office, Consumer Protection Division, and other AGO divisions and state agencies to enforce Washington laws in state and federal courts. For example, we partnered to lead a multi-state lawsuit to by removing excessively burdensome regulations for a medication abortion drug.

We also represent the Washington State Human Rights Commission in enforcement matters under the Washington Law Against Discrimination, enforce the Healthy Starts Act’s requirements regarding workplace pregnancy accommodations, and we enforce the Fair Chance Act’s prohibition on job advertisements and hiring policies and practices that unfairly exclude applicants because of criminal history. Interested candidates are encouraged to review the Division’s full list of and .Beyond

investigation and litigation duties, the Division engages in significant public outreach and education on civil…