Closing Date: 28th April, 2024
Description:
Job Description:
Are you an experienced legal professional looking to put your skills to work in public service? Are you interested in joining an organization dedicated to ensuring due process for Oregonians? If so, please consider joining our team.
The Office of Administrative Hearings is responsible for conducting administrative hearings for most state agencies in the State of Oregon. Our mission is to serve the public by providing impartial, fair, and efficient contested case hearing services for agencies, businesses and individual Oregonians. Every day, our staff of dedicated professionals provides hearing services for Oregonians throughout the state regarding issues that affect their daily lives, their businesses, and their professions.
What you will be doing:
The primary purpose of this position is to conduct timely, fair, and impartial contested case hearings. This position works under minimal supervision with considerable latitude for initiative and independent judgment. This position presides over hearings, ensuring that a complete record is developed, and writes orders accurately, deciding all factual and legal issues.
This position holds a majority of its hearings in the DMV routine program area, but will conduct a significant number of hearings in the Unemployment Insurance Benefit (UIB) and Paid Family Leave (PFLI) routine program areas. The facts presented may be complex, but once sorted out the legal conclusions are fairly straightforward. This position actively participates in the hearing by explaining the law and procedure at the start of hearings and assisting in the development of testimony. This position must screen files for legal sufficiency prior to hearings. Typically, case preparation takes less than 30 minutes per case; hearings generally last less than one hour.
What We Are Looking For (Desired Attributes):
Required Minimum Qualifications:
Graduation from an accredited law school with an LL.B. or J.D. degree; OR Three years' experience conducting contested case hearings.
Experience preparing and/or presenting cases before an administrative hearings body or preparing written administrative decisions based on laws and regulations may be substituted for one year of the conducting contested case hearings experience.
Are you an experienced legal professional looking to put your skills to work in public service? Are you interested in joining an organization dedicated to ensuring due process for Oregonians? If so, please consider joining our team.
The Office of Administrative Hearings is responsible for conducting administrative hearings for most state agencies in the State of Oregon. Our mission is to serve the public by providing impartial, fair, and efficient contested case hearing services for agencies, businesses and individual Oregonians. Every day, our staff of dedicated professionals provides hearing services for Oregonians throughout the state regarding issues that affect their daily lives, their businesses, and their professions.
What you will be doing:
The primary purpose of this position is to conduct timely, fair, and impartial contested case hearings. This position works under minimal supervision with considerable latitude for initiative and independent judgment. This position presides over hearings, ensuring that a complete record is developed, and writes orders accurately, deciding all factual and legal issues.
This position holds a majority of its hearings in the DMV routine program area, but will conduct a significant number of hearings in the Unemployment Insurance Benefit (UIB) and Paid Family Leave (PFLI) routine program areas. The facts presented may be complex, but once sorted out the legal conclusions are fairly straightforward. This position actively participates in the hearing by explaining the law and procedure at the start of hearings and assisting in the development of testimony. This position must screen files for legal sufficiency prior to hearings. Typically, case preparation takes less than 30 minutes per case; hearings generally last less than one hour.
What We Are Looking For (Desired Attributes):
- Commitment to valuing equity and diversity, and promoting inclusion and belonging.
- Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing with audiences from a variety of cultural, educational, and professional backgrounds.
- Superior interpersonal skills: ability to work with police officers, other subject matter experts, and the public on a variety of subjects.
- Commitment to procedural fairness and substantive due process.
- Skill in providing customer service to individuals facing challenging life circumstances or highly stressful situations.
- Ability to meet multiple short—and sometimes urgent—deadlines.
- Skill conducting judicial, quasi-judicial, or administrative hearings, in person or electronically.
- Ability to explain legal processes, procedures, and policies to individuals with varying levels of familiarity with the legal system.
- Ability to work independently, take initiative, and remain organized and self-motivated.
- Ability to analyze a variety of legal matters.
Graduation from an accredited law school with an LL.B. or J.D. degree; OR Three years' experience conducting contested case hearings.
Experience preparing and/or presenting cases before an administrative hearings body or preparing written administrative decisions based on laws and regulations may be substituted for one year of the conducting contested case hearings experience.