Assistant General Counsel - Engineering Construction Claims

The New York City Comptrollers Office works to promote the financial health integrity and effectiveness of New York City government in order to strengthen trust secure a thriving future for all New Yorkers and build a more just equitable and resilient city. Led by an independently elected citywide official the comptrollers office provides checks and balances needed to hold City government accountable for budgeting wisely investing responsibly operating efficiently acting fairly living up to its obligations and promises and paying attention to the longterm challenges we face together.

The Comptrollers Office of General Counsel leverages the expertise of its diverse team of attorneys to provide high quality legal advice counsel and support to the Comptroller and the Agencys various bureaus. OGC facilitates and advances the Offices strategic objectives in advising on the various legal and operational opportunities and risks while ensuring compliance with the Agencys Charter mandate as well as local state and federal laws.

The Office of General Counsel (OGC) is responsible for handling all legal matters implicated in the work of the Comptroller the Citys independent and chief fiscal watchdog. OGC addresses myriad legal issues including compliance and risk management litigation strategy municipal finance and pension investment transactions and disclosures agency audits settlements of claims brought on behalf of and against the City employee discipline records access public policy and proposed federal state and local legislation. OGC works closely with all of the divisions within the Comptrollers Office and with various City agencies.

Under the supervision of the Deputy General Counsel of Engineering and Construction Claims and in collaboration with the Bureau of Engineering the Assistant General Counsel responsibilities may include but are not limited to the following :

• Reviewing complex construction claims and contract disputes including breach of contract and other highexposure and highprofile claims;
• Investigating evaluating negotiating monitoring and approving settlement recommendations for various nontort claims and lawsuits against the City of New York and its agencies and escalating issues to the Deputy General Counsel;
• Advising and counseling BOE on a wide variety of legal matters including contract interpretation and administration;
• Participating in and conducting complex settlement conferences and negotiations with the BOE;
• Drafting determinations for contract disputes pursuant to the Comptrollers Offices role in the Citys contract dispute resolution process;
• Representing the Comptrollers Office on engineering and constructionrelated matters and interacting with various City agencies including the Law Department as well as with private construction contractors consultants law firms and the public;
• Train agency attorneys and other legal staff on claims review and the claims processes as needed;

Performing legal research and drafting memoranda on critical issues affecting ongoing litigation negotiations and procurement and constructionrelated policy; and

Performing related assignments and special projects as required.

Qualifications :

Admission to the New York State Bar; and four years of recent fulltime responsible relevant satisfactory legal experience subsequent to admission to any bar eighteen months of which must have been in the supervision of other attorneys in an administrative managerial or executive capacity or performing highly complex and significant legal work.

Incumbents must remain Members of the New York State Bar in good standing for the duration of this employment.

Additional Information :

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

Remote Work : Employment Type :

Fulltime

Key Skills

General Counsel,Legal Case Management,Legal Drafting,Litigation,Intellectual Property Law,Legal Counsel,Legal Research,Securities Law,Employment & Labor Law,Real Estate Law,negotiation,Contracts

Vacancy : 1