Legal Secretary I - Strategic Advocacy Team - City Attorney's Office (TPV 1458)

Company Description

The San Francisco City Attorney’s Office is looking for a qualified and motivated legal secretary to join its Strategic Advocacy Team.

Appointment Type: Temporary Provisional (TPV). This temporary position is excluded by the Charter from the competitive Civil Service examination process, is considered "at will" and shall serve at the discretion of the Department Head. This position will be subject to the Permanent Civil Service examination process. Successful participation in the Permanent Civil Service examination and selection through an open competitive process is needed in order to be considered for the permanent appointment.

• Application Opening: February 23, 2026
• Application Deadline: Continuous, earliest close 5:00 p.m. Thursday, March 9, 2026
• Compensation Range: $95,784 - $116,402
• Recruitment ID: RTF0163698-01119473

About the Office
The San Francisco City Attorney’s Office is an innovative, nationally-recognized municipal law office working to protect and advance the rights and interests of the City and County of San Francisco and its residents. With nearly 350 talented and dedicated employees, the Office provides exceptional legal services to the City’s Mayor, Board of Supervisors, officials, and departments. Our work empowers City leaders with effective, responsive, and creative legal solutions and representation so they can deliver critical public services, and our affirmative advocacy enhances the lives and wellbeing of San Francisco’s residents and visitors.

The Office recognizes that diversity in the backgrounds, identities, and experiences of our employees enriches our workplace and enhances our work. We aspire to recruit, employ, retain, and promote talented individuals representing the full spectrum of our community, and welcome all candidates, including candidates of any race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, and age, and candidates with disabilities. We have a clear vision: to be the place where a diverse mix of people want to come and stay, grow professionally, and find purpose and engagement, and where all employees feel welcomed and respected, and valued for their work and contributions to the Office and the City. To learn more about the Office’s efforts to provide an inclusive workplace where employees feel they belong and can meaningfully contribute, please visit: https://www.sfcityattorney.org/aboutus/dei/.

The Office provides a hybrid work schedule for eligible employees.

To learn more about the City Attorney’s Office please visit our website.

Job Description

About the Strategic Advocacy Team
The Strategic Advocacy Team is a new team established to respond to complex and novel issues at the intersection of litigation and advice work. Currently the team is exclusively focused on developing, coordinating, and implementing strategies to respond to federal administration actions that threaten the City and County of San Francisco and its residents. In the future, the team may also address other major issues that require significant litigation and legal counsel. The team acts as a force multiplier that allows the Office to leverage internal and external resources to deliver meaningful results on high-priority matters.

Our litigation docket is currently in federal court and generally involves cases with significant public policy implications, constitutional claims, novel legal issues, and multiple parties. Our advice work typically addresses matters of citywide concern or issues that relate to pending or anticipated litigation. We also handle projects and assignments that extend beyond traditional legal work. No task is too big or too small for this team, and we aspire to be low ego, high energy, creative, collaborative, and nimble. 

Position Information and Responsibilities
Legal Secretaries work under the direction of attorneys and provide a variety of secretarial and clerical duties in a fast-paced, high-volume civil litigation practice. The responsibilities listed below are representative of the range of duties assigned and are not intended as an exhaustive list.

• Preparing, editing and proofreading a wide variety of legal documents in proper format which may include pleadings and briefs with preparation of table of contents and table of authorities, motions, notices, declarations, complaints, discovery documents, correspondence and contracts utilizing multiple word processing systems, spreadsheet software, and case management systems/s