General Counsel

Closing Date: 9th November, 2025

Description:

Position Type:
Administrative/Leadership - Superintendent Dept/General Counsel

Date Posted:
10/9/2025

Location:
Educational Support Center

Closing Date:
11/09/2025

Full Salary Range: Level 29 (minimum: $146,594- mid-point: $180,981 - maximum: $215,368)
The maximum placement for new hires is based upon experience and typically does not exceed the mid-point of the range
FTE: 1.0
Months per Year: 12
Job Code: 3005
Position Type: Regular/Permanent
Location: Thornton, CO

Adams 12 Five Star Schools is deeply committed to a community of excellence, equity, and inclusion in everything we do. We commit to eliminate the predictability of who is included in excellence and who is not. Adams 12 Five Star Schools puts students first and supports our district's mission to elevate student success for every student every day in every classroom. Candidates who can contribute to our goal are encouraged to apply and to identify their strengths in this area.

Summary: Provide, acquire, coordinate, and monitor all legal services and legal compliance issues for the District. Ensure the District is protected through accurate legal advice to avoid the loss of District assets.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Job Task Descriptions:

• Provide legal advice to the Board of Education and Superintendent regarding board governance and emerging legal issues.
• Provide legal advice regarding the employment lifecycle including hiring, contracts, Master Agreements, handbooks, separations, complaints, and disputes.
• Provide legal advice in all areas of District services operations including students' rights and discipline to assist administrators in making defensible decisions.
• Anticipate potential complaints, litigation, and administrative claims, gather necessary information, perform or oversee investigations and align resources. Establish and implement systems and strategies to ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and policies.
• Represent the District, and/or supervise, coordinate, assign and monitor outside legal counsel in all stages of adversary proceedings, including lawsuits. employee grievances, civil rights complaints, appeals to Board, curriculum challenges, and State Board of Education matters.
• Draft or coordinate drafting of legal documents including contracts, negotiated agreements and position statements.
• Provide legal advice regarding all aspects of special education.
• Supervise members of the district's legal department.
• Train administrators and staff at all levels concerning practical applications of school law.
• Coordinate the review, development, modification, suspension, and/or deletion of District Policies pertaining to all phases of District services and operation.
• Maintain files and retrieval systems for legal information of relevance to the District.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education and Related Work Experience:

• Juris Doctor Degree.
• Minimum of five years (5) of experience, preferably in PK-12 school law and/or working in a law firm representing school district clients.

Licenses, Registrations or Certifications:

• Criminal background check required for hire.
• Licensed by the Colorado Supreme Court or ability to become licensed within 60 days of start date.

Application Information:
All applicants (current district employees and external applicants) should list any and all work experience, including current district experience, when completing the employment application. Please include job titles and duties that you held while doing that job. Since the Human Resource department uses the application to screen for minimum qualifications required for each job, it is important to have a complete application so you will be considered for the position you are applying for.

Salary Information:
The salary listed is for full time positions (1.0 FTE). This salary will be adjusted, as needed, based upon the FTE. Administrative employees' salary will be commensurate on the employees' education and/or work experience. For additional information, please review our Administrative Compensation Program or review our Administrative Salary Schedule.

Benefits Information:
Adams 12 Five Star Schools is committed to providing an environment that promotes a healthy employee population able to serve our students at the highest level. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision and life insurance as well as other programs for benefit eligible employees. The employee assistance program, voluntary life insurance through PERA, and 401(k), 403(b) & 457(b) plans are available to all employees regardless of hours worked and are available immediately (upon hire date).

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