Law Clerk
About The Position
The City of New York’s Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH) is the nation’s largest administrative tribunal, holding more than 250,000 trials and hearings a year. As the City’s central, independent administrative law court, OATH adjudicates a wide range of matters filed by nearly every city agency, board and commission. OATH also houses the Center for Creative Conflict Resolution which provides mediation and restorative justice support to City government agencies and the general public, and the Administrative Judicial Institute, a resource center that provides training, continuing education, research and support services for administrative law judges and hearing officers. The OATH Trials Division seeks to hire one Law Clerk to provide legal research and writing support to the OATH Administrative Law Judges. The Law Clerk will provide this research and writing assistance in relation to all matters that come before the OATH tribunal. The Law Clerk may also be designated by the Chief Administrative Law Judge to conduct pre-trial settlement conferences in certain proceedings.
Requirements
- Graduation from an accredited United States law school as defined in the Rules of the New York Court of Appeals (Sections 520.3 or 520.5) or admission to the New York State Bar.
Responsibilities
- Maintaining a caseload of matters before numerous agencies, including the Loft Board and the Contract Dispute Resolution Board, including reviewing submissions, drafting legal notices and memoranda, organizing conferences and oral arguments, and communicating with parties, the Chairperson, and panelists
- Proofreading and cite checking draft reports and recommendations and memorandum decisions
- Performing legal research related to statutory and regulatory issues, including reviewing state and federal court caselaw and OATH Trials Division precedent
- Reviewing parties’ legal arguments, presentations of facts, and exhibits and writing legal memoranda and draft reports and recommendations and memorandum decisions, including decisions on motions, for review by the Supervising Law Clerk and Administrative Law Judges
- Participating in meetings and discussions with other Law Clerks and the Administrative Law Judges
- Maintaining an organized docket of assignments and meeting deadlines assigned by the Administrative Law Judges and the Supervising Law Clerk
- Engaging in correspondence and communications with attorneys, agency representatives, and pro se respondents as needed
- Drafting OATH Trials Division monthly newsletter, BenchNOTES, and summarizing cases for that newsletter and for other publications, such as The New York Law Journal, and updating and uploading cases for publication in the CityAdmin online legal research library and Lexis
- Updating legal research databases and memoranda
- Working with other divisions and units of OATH
- Responding to requests for information regarding OATH records, transcripts, and other materials maintained by OATH
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
