Closing Date: 20th October, 2026
Description:
Job Overview:The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is seeking an attorney to serve as an Associate Counsel in its Professional Standards Unit. The duties for this position will involve extensive work regarding public records but will not be limited to public records and could include other duties of the Professional Standards Unit as described in this posting.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work under the direction of the Public Records Request Coordinator to assist in reviewing and responding to public records requests.
- Coordinate with all units to gather and produce records within the required legal time frame.
- Learn the statutory exceptions to the Tennessee Public Records Act to be applied when preparing records.
- Track all redactions and the basis for the redactions.
- Assist with cost and time estimations of all parties involved in the response and work with Fiscal Services Unit to process costs associated with public records.
- Maintain a file of either a soft or hard copy of communications with requesters as directed by the Public Records Request Coordinator.
- Maintain monthly statistics at the direction of the Public Records Request Coordinator.
- Perform research related to public records law as directed by the Public Records Request Coordinator.
- General research of other legal issues when requested by agents and management.
- Provide training to TBI team members on public records laws, including exceptions and best practices, as needed.
- Work with the Public Records Request Coordinator on any requests that may be assigned including litigation hold matters.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Applicants must be licensed to practice law in Tennessee.
- Relevant legal experience is desired but not required.
- Applicants must be extremely organized and detailed.
- Although not mandatory, extra consideration will be given to any candidate that possesses State public records experience and litigation hold experience.
- The applicant must be team-focused, solution-driven, efficient and energetic.
- Must be proficient in performing electronic legal research on State-provided Westlaw or Lexis Nexis.
- Must be willing and capable of becoming proficient in Adobe Premiere Pro and be willing to become proficient in how to redact video and audio recordings.
