Description:
Position Summary:The Deputy General Counsel will assume all functions of planning, organizing and monitoring legal activities, interpreting laws and regulations, providing legal advice, counsel and assistance to General Counsel. The lawyer will be expected to work under minimal supervision with considerable latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment in legal issues large in scope, complexity, and activity. The lawyer will support OTRD leadership, as needed.
Position Responsibilities:
The specific functions of this position vary, but may include the following:
- Assists in overseeing and managing the provisions of all legal services to the agency.
- Prepares legal memoranda, briefs, pleadings, motions, petitions, and other legal documents.
- Exercises responsibility for the development, preparation, and presentation of cases before administrative, state, federal, and appellate courts.
- Evaluates complex legal issues and provides advice, counsel, and assistance to OTRD on legal matters.
- Assists in drafting bills and amendments for legislative consideration, completes reports on changes in legislation, evaluates proposed legislation and makes recommendations for agency action in response thereto.
- Performs legal research and reports findings and conclusions.
- Analyzes complex factual and legal issues and develops evidence through witness interviews, depositions, and other discovery.
- Advises on law, regulations, and opinions of the courts and those of the Attorney General; prepares or directs the preparation of interpretations outlining facts and the applicable legal, administrative, or executive decisions.
- Advises on questions of law or administrative policy involved in the operation of the agency and its contacts with industry, private or professional associations, state federal, or local government, and the public.
- Performs related work as assigned.
Essential Functions:
- Provides legal advice and counsel regarding all aspects of legal issues facing the agency.
- Prepares the preparation of legal opinions, briefs, pleadings, motions, petitions, and other legal documents.
Other Duties:
Demonstrates knowledge of and supports mission, vision, value statements, standards, policies and procedures, operating instructions, confidentiality standards, and the code of ethical behavior.
Education and Experience:
- Graduation from an accredited law school.
- Licensed to practice law in the State of Oklahoma.
- Three years legal experience as a licensed attorney.
- Experience in employment law, administrative law, contracts, litigation, and/or other areas of law involved in the operations of a government agency preferred.
Valued Skills and Experience
Knowledge of legal principles and their application; of legal research methods; of the scope of Oklahoma statutory laws and provisions of the Oklahoma Constitution, of the United States Constitution, of the law and regulations on human resource management; of the principles of administrative law; of trial and hearing procedures and the rules of evidence.
Skill in directing and/or performing independent and difficult research; in analyzing, appraising and applying legal principles, facts and precedents to difficult legal or factual problems; in communicating effectively both orally and in writing; in presenting statements of fact, law, and argument clearly and logically in written or oral form; in presenting, explaining, or arguing cases to administrative commissions, boards, or courts; in dictating correspondence involving the explanation of difficult legal matters.
Physical Demands and Work Environment:
Office Environment
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
