What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Attorney position at msta?
Job Description:
Summary:
This is not your typical law firm job. Our Staff Attorneys spend the majority of their time talking directly to members, assisting them with their work related legal issues. The Staff Attorney is responsible for providing direct legal support to members and delegating legal matters to outside legal counsel. The person in this position is responsible for conducting legal research, drafting correspondences, assisting with staff legal training, and managing legal files as directed by the Association Legal Counsel.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Assist with screening of inquiries entering Legal Services.
- Respond directly to members’ legal needs by phone or written correspondence as appropriate.
- When warranted by workload, complexity of a matter or group of matters, or other factors, make referrals of cases to appropriate outside legal counsel.
- Provide legal advice to member service coordinators (MSC) with respect to individual member legal inquiries and issues on a daily, as needed basis, either by phone, email, or in-office visits.
- Attends and facilitates legal services seminars throughout the state when needed.
- Propose topics and issues for training of MSCs to Association Legal Counsel, and develop, prepare, and deliver training as requested.
- Assists in maintaining criteria for referral of cases to outside legal counsel for individual representation.
- Prepares witnesses/employees for deposition, grand jury, trial and other testimony in various forums.
- Research new or unusual legal issues determined to be valuable to members.
- Work with the Communication Department to develop educational/informational articles on legal topics of interest to members.
- Attends education law seminars as requested.
- Cooperates with all MSTA personnel, association members, board members and the public.
- Encourages all other MSTA personnel to successfully serve association members.
- Uses time and resources effectively and efficiently.
- Manages department/program budget and equipment according to MSTA guidelines.