Civil Attorney (Transactions)

Join the Transactions/Housing team in the Placer County Counsel’s Office, working on innovative programs supporting housing, commercial growth, and infrastructure expansion.

The County Counsel is the civil attorney for the County and reports to the Board of Supervisors, with deputies practicing public law in transactions, housing, land use, environmental, litigation, child welfare, law enforcement, and general government. The office provides legal advice to the Board, elected officials, departments, joint power authorities, and special districts.

Typical responsibilities for the transactional attorney position include the following:

• Negotiate and draft real estate purchase and sale agreements, licenses and leases, use or operational agreements on behalf of the County with nationally known residential and commercial developers and companies, state and local governmental entities and certain joint power authorities and special districts.
• Negotiate and draft use or operational agreements with potential state and local agencies, other governmental entities, nationally and internationally recognized commercial companies.
• Negotiate and draft finance and loan agreements on behalf of the County for the development of affordable housing.
• Negotiate and draft contracts for county services and public works construction projects.
• Day-to-day legal advice to and/or preparation of formal legal opinions for County departments on a broad range of transactions, real estate, public works construction and affordable housing topics.
• Advise as needed on the Brown Act, Public Records Act and/or the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Preferred candidates have 3–4 years of public entity experience in contract negotiations and drafting, including real estate purchase and sale agreements, leases, licenses, public works contracts, tax revenue agreements, and affordable housing finance and loan agreements.

Take advantage of this opportunity to apply your transactional law expertise to help shape the future of Placer County.

Filing Deadline: Open Until Filled

To submit an application, please visit the recruitment page: Job Posting: Civil Attorney (Transactions) - Placer County

Please note: The salary for this classification will be approximately $117,951.91 - $202,513.90, effective June 13, 2026 (pay date July 10, 2026).

Placer County is an equal opportunity employer.