Job Title: Assistant Attorney
Location: Des Moines, IA, 50319
Pay Rate: $62,337 Annually
Duration: 1 year
Description:
- Attorneys in the Revenue Section represent the Iowa Department of Revenue before courts and administrative tribunals and provide legal advice to the agency on matters related to its operations. This specific position will assist the client in the fields of taxation, trial, and appeal matters in both state and federal courts, and tobacco-related matters.
- Requirements and Preferences:
- Candidates must have a passion for public service and possess exceptional skills in statutory construction, administrative law, legal writing, and providing written and oral advice to agency staff. Probate experience preferred. This position requires a license, or the ability to obtain a license, to practice law in Iowa.
Representation:
- Attorneys represent the Iowa Department of Revenue before courts and administrative tribunals. This involves litigation, preparation of legal briefs, and argumentation in legal proceedings. Research and review tax law and regulations, revenue rulings, formal opinions, and guidance documents to ensure consistent application of tax laws.
Legal Advice:
- Provide legal counsel to the Iowa Department of Revenue on various agency matters, which encompass guidance on complex tax laws, regulatory compliance, and justice.
Tax Law Expertise:
- Advise and represent the Department of Revenue on a variety of taxes, such as personal and business income, sales/use, franchise, alcohol, cigarette, excise, property, and special local option taxes. Renders decisions on the points of law or construction of an act and directs corrective action, payment, or relief as provided under the laws or regulations.
Drafting and Opinions:
- Prepare and review legal orders and formal responses to tax opinion requests made to the Attorney General or Department of Revenue. Draft official documents as needed.
Tobacco Enforcement:
- Enforce state laws regulating tobacco manufacturing, import, and sales; manage legal interests in tobacco litigation, settlement enforcement, and challenges from tobacco companies. Ensure compliance with the master settlement agreement, escrow statues and regulated registrations.
Statutory Interpretation:
- A revenue-section attorney interprets and applies complex state and federal tax statutes and regulations, providing clear, written, and oral legal guidance to revenue agencies, courts, and other officials. Apply strong skills in statutory construction, administrative law, and interpreting complex state and federal statutes.
Legal Research and Writing:
- Conduct sophisticated legal research; write high-quality legal materials, including pleadings, motions, memoranda, and opinions.
Collaboration:
- Work alongside other government attorneys and agencies, including technical support to communities and local officials on tobacco and revenue issues.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Must be licensed to practice law in Iowa or able to obtain a license to practice law in Iowa within six months of job offer.
- Exceptional abilities in legal writing, research, and statutory analysis.
- Passion for public service, with demonstrated experience or training in tax or administrative law.
- Ability to manage multiple complex assignments and meet deadlines.
- The Attorney General's office aims to ensure justice for Iowans, uphold the rule of law, protect the interests of state government, and provide meaningful support for victims and citizens across the state.
Definition:
- Performs entry-level professional legal work of a limited scope and variety within the Attorney General's Office; performs related work as required.
- The work examples and competencies listed below are for illustrative purposes only and not intended to be the primary basis for position classification decisions.
Work Examples:
- Prepares tentative drafts, letters, opinions, memoranda, and legal documents for use by attorneys of a higher level in the preparation of opinions, legislative reports, briefs, contracts, and other papers or legal documents.
- Prepares cases for filing by drafting complaints, orders to show cause, indictments, preliminary motions, and supporting affidavits and briefs.
- Prepares drafts of pleadings, motions, and interrogations in connection with cases in litigation.
- Assists attorneys of a higher level in court cases or administrative proceedings by interviewing and selecting appropriate witnesses, preparing them to give testimony, taking depositions, conducting direct examination, suggesting questions to be asked in cross-examination, and cross-examining witnesses in line with established lines of questioning.
- Assists in the preparation of drafts of findings of fact, conclusions of law, and orders based on the records.
- Conducts investigations of a limited scope to obtain facts, studies legal precedents, and prepares recommendations for the review of a supervisor.
- Briefs and argues minor cases in the appellate courts, subject to close supervision.
Required Knowledge:
- Law and Government - Laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
- English Language - The structure and content of the English language, including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- Personnel and Human Resources - Principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
- Customer Service - Principles and processes for providing customer services, including customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluating customer satisfaction.
Required
Abilities:
- Law and Government - Understand and adhere to applicable laws, legal codes, administrative rules, and regulations.
- Oral Comprehension - Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Oral Expression - Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. * Written Expression - Communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Written Comprehension - Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Deductive Reasoning - Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Inductive Reasoning - Combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions.
Required Skills:
- Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
- Writing - Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Negotiation - Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
- Persuasion - Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
- Active Learning - Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Service Orientation - Actively looking for ways to help people.
Qualification Required:
- Applicants must have graduated from an accredited school of law to qualify for positions in this job classification.
- Notes: At the time of appointment, employees in this class are required to have been admitted to the Iowa State Bar and the appropriate federal courts.
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