Managing Attorney of Subpoena Compliance

The New York City Department of Correction (DOC) is an integral part of the City’s evolving criminal justice system, participating in reform initiatives and strategies aimed to move the City towards a smaller jail system without compromising public safety. The DOC is responsible for maintaining a safe and secure environment for our employees, visitors, volunteers, and people in our custody. Importantly, safe jails enable DOC to provide people in custody with the tools and opportunities they need to successfully re-enter their communities. The DOC operates facilities and court commands across the five boroughs with more than 7,500 diverse professionals and knowledgeable experts. The DOC seeks a highly qualified candidate to fill an executive-level vacancy for Executive Agency Counsel, M-III. Under the direction of the General Counsel and Deputy General Counsels, with wide latitude for independent judgment and decision-making, the Executive Agency Counsel serves as the primary point of contact for all subpoena and Comptroller requests. This role is critical to fostering informational and strategic relationships with the Comptroller, while providing documentary/record productions, policy recommendations, and strategic guidance on subpoena and Comptroller-related legal issues and procedures. Acting as a supervisor of the unit, the Executive Agency Counsel serves as the primary point of contact for litigation-related requests from the New York City Comptroller and state and federal prosecutors’ subpoena requests and supervises staff in the review and response to documentary requests from said agencies. The Executive Agency Counsel may be called upon to represent the Department in various types of legal proceedings. Tasks will include but are not limited to the following: - Serves as primary point of contact for all subpoena/Comptroller requests, under supervision of executive staff, including meeting with external parties, as necessary, to resolve specific requests. - Reviews all subpoena and Comptroller requests; assigns, creates case files and inputs all pertinent information into the Legal Division’s case management system. - Supervises unit staff; assigns above external requests; tracks such requests for audit purposes; supervises attorneys and staff assigned to the unit in the production/response to above requests. - Provide guidance, direction, and oversight of unit responses to above requests; reviews/approves vacation and overtime requests of unit staff as necessary; prepares, writes, and submits evaluations for unit staff. - Accurately and promptly identifies and collects documents, information and materials requested relating to subpoenas received from district attorneys and/or others within or outside the agency. - Accurately and promptly identifies and collects documents, information and materials requested relating to requests from the Comptroller, as necessary. - Utilizes computer systems to assist the processing of above requests; assembles, reviews and verifies documents, information and materials received to ensure that it is responsive to the request. - Ensures that the unit saves materials in the case management system and forwards them to the appropriate party; makes timely follow-ups on all requests where a response was not received and elevates requests internally as necessary. - Performs special projects as assigned and within specified deadlines; testifies in court as necessary related to the above requests. - Promptly and appropriately responds to and initiates all required correspondence relating to the above duties/responsibilities. - Assists the General Counsel, Deputy General Counsel and Monitor-related litigation teams with additional projects or communications with outside entities, or delivery of evidence to the courts. EXECUTIVE AGENCY COUNSEL - 95005 Admission to the New York State Bar; and four years of recent full-time responsible, relevant, satisfactory legal experience subsequent to admission to any bar, eighteen months of which must have been in the supervision of other attorneys, in an administrative, managerial or executive capacity, or performing highly complex and significant legal work. Incumbents must remain Members of the New York State Bar in good standing for the duration of this employment. The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.