The County Counsel’s Office is recruiting for a Workers’ Compensation Attorney. The position will perform the following duties:Analyze complex legal and factual issues.Conduct extensive, well-reasoned legal research.Communicate, effectively work with, and provide guidance to Risk Management claim partners/adjusters.Prepare pleadings including applications, answers and responsive pleadings.Draft proposed compromise and release agreements, stipulations with request for awards, and AME/PQME letters.Prepare trial briefs and appeals including petitions for reconsideration and writs.Take depositions of applicants and cross-examinations of physicians.Prepare strategies for resolution with little or no supervision.Prepare for hearings including trial, cross-examination, trial exhibits and witnesses with little or no supervision.Communicate with the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board, witnesses and opposing counsel and maintain a large caseload with little or no supervision.Deputy County Counsel II$114,712.00 – $152,339.20 AnnuallyDeputy County Counsel III$135,345.60 – $180,128.00 AnnuallyDeputy County Counsel IV$156,166.40 – $227,843.20 AnnuallyMinimum Requirements:License: Active membership with the California Bar Association.–AND–Workers’ Compensation Attorney II: Twelve (12) months of experience as a workers’ compensation attorney.Workers’ Compensation Attorney III: Thirty (30) months of experience as a workers’ compensation attorney.Workers’ Compensation Attorney IV: Forty-eight (48) months of experience as a workers’ compensation attorney.
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