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DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF LAW

Code: 30388 State Unclassified Range: M43 (FY 2027) Work week NL: FLSA exemptOvertime table (4A:3, Appx. A)

Career Family: DIRECTOR

Salary: $122,932.13 - $172,107.89/year FY 2027 schedule (last updated 2026-07-27)

As an unclassified state title, Director, Division of Law is filled by appointment, and its published pay band is more of a guide than a fixed grade.

Its salary schedule (frozen at an older rate) lists $122,932 to $172,108, though managerial and exempt titles like this are usually paid individually rather than on the step schedule.

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Official job specification

The text below is the official specification published by the New Jersey Civil Service Commission. The plain-language summary and analysis above are derived from it by NJ Civil Service Navigator. Source: the official specification page at NJ CSC.

Examples of work

  • Under direction, directs the work programs and staff of the Division of Law.
  • Assigns, instructs and supervises the work performance of the professional staff including Assistant Attorney Generals, Deputy Attorneys Generals and Law Assistants as well as clerical and stenographic employees.
  • In consultation with the Attorney General and/or the First Assistant Attorney General assigns staff members to specific cases and legal problems and to represent particular State officers and agencies, departments and offices, including County Boards of Election, County Boards of Taxation and Sheriffs.
  • Together with staff, assists the Attorney General and the First Assistant Attorney General in the provision of legal advice to the Governor on important legal matters.
  • Supervises staff in the review of State documents, including the approval of school bonds, contracts, leases and change orders for the Division of Purchase and Property, Department of the Treasury; deeds and titles for the Department of Environmental Protection; riparian grants; and investments by the Division of Investment, Department of the Treasury.
  • Supervises the work operations and/or functional programs and has responsibility for effectively recommending the hiring, firing, promoting, demoting and/or disciplining of employees.
  • Coordinates the activities of the Bureau of Administrative services involving the provision of legal counsel and advice to all State Departments, Divisions and agencies and to the officials in these units.
  • Supervises and coordinates the work of the Bureau of Litigation responsible for the control of all litigation involving the State of New Jersey and its agencies and composed of three units, i.e.: the Litigation Section which is responsible for Superior Court and County Court trials and matters in Federal District Courts at the trial level; the Trial Section which is responsible for cases pending in the municipal and county districts at the trial level and county courts at the appellate section responsible for appeals to the Appellate Division of the Superior and Supreme Courts of New Jersey and the United States (determinations arising from agency hearing (Bureau of Administrative Services) are appealable under the rules of Court to the Appellate Division of the Superior Court).
  • Supervises the programs and staff of the Bureau of Legislation, which provides advice and assistance to the Governor on important legal matters, including the preparation of legislative memoranda dealing with the scope, terms, legal effect, constitutionality and general validity of bills submitted to the Legislature.
  • Supervises the administrative and legal services work of the Escheat Section required in representing the State's interest in the administration of the estates of interstates without heirs and recovering for the State the residual personal and real property owned by such interstates at the time of death and in arranging and conducting the public sale of escheated real estate for the State Treasurer.
  • Is responsible for directing the work of the Bureau of Claims in processing all claims made by state employees for injuries as a result of their employment, claims by the State for damage to State property, subrogation claims by the State against their parties for injuries to State employees, claims under New Jersey Tort Act, and for miscellaneous other civil claims against the State as a result of State activities and actions by State employees.
  • Supervises the Pollution Task Force and, in cooperation with the Department of Environmental Protection, institutes appropriate legal action and obtains appropriate relief towards abatement of pollution in water, air or sanitary landfills in New Jersey; and is empowered to require offending industries to suspend operations until proper pollution abatement facilities are installed to comply with injunctive orders.
  • Prepares and supervises the preparation of legally sound, technically accurate and informative legal memoranda, briefs, summaries and reports.
  • Directs the maintenance of essential and extensive records and files.
  • <b>REQUIREMENTS
  • EXPERIENCE</b>
  • Five years of comprehensive professional legal experience as an attorney at law in the State of New Jersey.

License

Admission to practice as an attorney at law in the State of New Jersey.

Knowledge, skills and abilities

Ability to read, write, speak and understand English sufficiently to perform the duties of this position.