Attorney III - Hearing Officer

Do you feel at ease in a courtroom setting with your litigation experience? Are you looking for a consistent steady work schedule without the need for billable hours? If so, apply today!

Job duties:

• Conduct administrative hearings as a Hearing Officer, using communication and courtroom skills for Administrative Procedure Act public assistance appeals, health professional license discipline hearings, and central registry cases.
• Preside over administrative hearings; rule on the admissibility of evidence and motions; and make final agency decisions or recommended orders by applying the law to reach proper conclusions in contested agency cases.
• Draft final decisions and recommended orders in contested cases.

How we reward our employees:

• Stable Employment with fixed work hours

• 13 paid holidays (including Arbor Day)

• Vacation and sick leave equating to 24 days your first year, accruing immediately

• Military leave, civil service leave, funeral leave, and more

• 156% State-matched retirement

• 79% employer paid health, dental, vision insurance plans

• Employer-paid $20,000 life insurance policy

• No travel

• No working on weekends

• Opportunity to be part of meaningful work and make a difference

• No billable hour requirements!

Location: Nebraska State Office Building – Lincoln

Hiring rate of position: Negotiable; commensurate with experience, if approved.

Requirements/ Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications: Three years of experience as an attorney practicing law and providing legal services such as preparing and trying cases, advising clients, and/or interpreting laws or administrative policies.

Legal Requirements: In accordance with Section 7-101, Nebraska Revised, Reissued Statutes of 1943, incumbents in this class must be admitted to the Nebraska Bar.

Preferred Qualifications:

A successful candidate will possess skills as follows: excellent communication; ease in controlling a courtroom setting; good legal analysis, research, and writing skills; skill in evaluating evidence when applying the law to reach proper legal conclusions.

Knowledge, skills and abilities

Knowledge of: State and/or federal statutory and case law and constitutional provisions pertinent to agency programs; the techniques of preparing or drafting legal document and forms; judicial procedures and rules of evidence; the principles and practices of legal research; the procedures of trial and administrative hearings; the principles and practices of criminal and civil law administration.

Skill in: preparing summaries, legal analyses, findings and conclusions, briefs and other legal documents, negotiating and communicating with others sufficient to persuade their acceptance of contentious goals or viewpoints; analyzing and interpreting various factors, perspectives, and options and applying critical thinking to resolve issues.

Ability to: prepare and communicate in person and by telephone, emails, summaries, and correspondence, the facts and arguments of a case to persuade others to accept the viewpoint presented; interact with legal associates, other governmental employees, the public, and representatives of parties involved in a case; formulate legal opinions and recommendations based on legal research and investigations; conduct legal research and investigations; identify critical elements of legal questions or issues and select appropriate course of action; prepare drafts of legal documents and forms; interpret and apply statutes, case law, decisions of judicial and administrative hearings, and administrative rules and policies.