Duties include independently handling complex cases and overseeing cases assigned to Assistant Attorneys General, taking and defending depositions, managing written discoveries, drafting briefs and pleadings, and appearing in court for motions, hearings, and trials, including serving as first chair on trial teams. The OAG also protects the public by civil enforcement of antitrust, civil rights, consumer protection, and securities laws and regulations and by the prosecution of organized crime, Medicaid fraud, environmental crimes, insurance fraud, state tax evasion, and other statutorily assigned matters.