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This position can be located in Sacramento or Riverside County.

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is a global leader in protecting air quality, fighting climate change, and furthering environmental justice. CARB's Executive Office plans, organizes, and directs the activities of staff to further the Board's mission to protect and preserve California’s air quality while considering the effects on the State’s economy. The Legal Office is part of the Executive Office. Its mission is to provide the highest quality legal advice and representation to the Board and staff to support programmatic efforts to improve air quality to protect public health and the environment and to ensure that all legal obligations of CARB are met in carrying out these efforts. The Legal Office provides legal support to the agency on a variety of complex topics related to the control of air pollution (criteria pollutants, toxic air contaminants, and greenhouse gases), including, but not limited to: adoption, interpretation, implementation, and enforcement of State and federal environmental and administrative laws and regulations, litigation in conjunction with the Attorney General's Office, personnel matters, contracts, grants, conflicts of interest, hearing procedures, and proposed legislation. The Legal Office maintains the primary responsibility for assisting CARB staff in the development of regulations and the documentation necessary to support their adoption. The Legal Office also provides legal assistance to California's 35 Air Pollution Control and Air Quality Management Districts.


Under general direction of an Assistant Chief Counsel, the Deputy Counsel, and the Chief Counsel, the Attorney V in this position is responsible for independently providing expert written and oral legal advice to CARB’s Chair, Board, Executive Officer, management, and staff on handling the most difficult and complex legal work and litigation requiring the highest level of expertise; many of which relates to California’s climate change programs, working on innovative theories, practices of law, specialization in an area of law overseen by or involving the department. With CARB’s litigation portfolio increasing both as plaintiff and as a defendant/third party, the attorney will provide strategic advice to guide this litigation.  

 

The Attorney V will work with officials from federal and State government agencies, local air district officers/staff, county and city government officials, and others on the most complex, technical, and difficult CARB regulations and programs, including providing legal advice on possible complex litigation involving CARB. The Attorney V will be an expert in one or more relevant legal authorities to CARB, which would include expertise in the federal Clean Air Act, California Health and Safety Code, California Environmental Quality Act, California Administrative Procedure Act, California Public Records Act, or other state or federal administrative laws. The attorney must be able to act independently within compressed timelines to perform a variety of the most complex legal tasks.

 

Travel between CARB headquarters (Sacramento and Riverside locations) other offices, and occasionally out of state, as required to complete duties.

You will find additional information about the job in the Duty Statement.

 

Working Conditions

This position may be eligible for hybrid in-office work and in-state telework. The amount of telework is at the agency's discretion and is based on the California Air Resource Boards' (CARB) current telework policy. While the CARB may support telework, some in-person attendance is also required. 
 

The positions at the CARB may be eligible for telework with in-person attendance based on the operational needs of the position under Government Code 14200 for eligible applicants residing in California, subject to the candidate meeting telework eligibility criteria outlined in the CalEPA telework policy and/or future program need. Employees not residing in California are not eligible for telework. Regardless of hybrid telework eligibility, all employees may be required to report to the position’s designated headquarters location at their own expense, as indicated on their duty statement.

  • Position located in a high-rise building.
  • Requires being stationary, consistent with office work, for extended periods.
  • Standard office environment (artificial lighting, controlled temperature, etc.)  
  • Daily use of a personal computer, office equipment, and/or telephone.