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Sr. Assistant City Attorney
The City of Fort Worth
Law
Source: The City of Fort Worth careers · View original posting
- Pay
- Pay Range: $58.74 - $72.12/hr. | $122,187 - $150,009 annual compensation
Employer job description
From The City of Fort Worth's posting. “We” and “our” refer to the employer.
Pay Range:
$58.74 - $72.12/hr. | $122,187 - $150,009 annual compensation
Job Posting Closing on:
Friday, October 2, 2026
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Benefits for this position include:
- 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, and Professional Development Opportunities.
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- The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of over 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability. 🌆
- The Fort Worth City Attorney’s Office is a collegial team of legal professionals providing excellent legal service to the City of Fort Worth. As an in-house legal department, we practice in a wide range of civil and criminal law on behalf of and for the City, including general counsel, litigation, and prosecutorial areas. Local government is the form of government that is closest to the people and working for a well-managed city like Fort Worth gives meaning and purpose as you see the direct and positive impact your legal work has on improving the community.
- The City Attorney’s Office places a strong emphasis on professional development and offers opportunities for CLE in areas of the law applicable to an attorney’s assignments. We highly value diversity and work/life balance, and we view our office as a work family, consistently striving to be a respectful and supportive workplace with a great culture.
This position, Senior Assistant City Attorney, would be assigned to the Litigation Division, where the individual would be responsible for initiating and defending civil lawsuits and administrative hearings on behalf of the City. As a Senior Assistant City Attorney, this individual would be assigned more complex legal issues and carry a greater and more difficult caseload and assignment load within the office.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Juris Doctorate from an accredited law school
- Eight (8) years of increasingly responsible legal experience, including relevant trial and/or transactional experience
- Possession of a license from the Supreme Court of Texas to practice
Preferred Qualifications:
- Municipal experience
- First-chair employment law litigation experience in state or federal court
- The Sr. Assistant City Attorney - job responsibilities include: Handling lawsuits as assigned as first-chair including hearings, discovery, mediations, and trial
- Handling administrative hearings as assigned such as contested case hearings and special commissioners’ hearings
- Performing other legal tasks, including advising City departments, responding to subpoenas and public information requests, and reviewing and commenting on pending legislation
- Advising City boards and commissions and providing other legal research and legal advice to the City staff on a variety of matters as assigned
- Working Conditions and
- Physical Demand
- Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, walking and repetitive motions
- Sedentary Work – Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, a negligible amount of force frequently, and/or constantly having to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met
- Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) Background Check
- Applicants for this position must pass a Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) fingerprint-based background check and maintain CJIS eligibility. Due to CJIS requirements related to system access, the following will result in being disqualified for this position: Felony Convictions, Felony Deferred Adjudication, Class A Misdemeanor Conviction, Class B Misdemeanor Convictions in the last 10 years, Class A Misdemeanor Deferred Adjudication, Class B Misdemeanor Deferred Adjudication in the last 10 years, an Open Arrest for Any Criminal Offense (Felony or Misdemeanor), and ALL Family Violence Convictions regardless of class
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- Come be part of something special in Fort Worth 🌟
- Conditions of Employment
- The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.
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