ASSOCIATE COUNSEL - 65141

Work Activities
Executive Service

ASSOCIATE COUNSEL

Department of Children's Services

General Counsel Office

Tullahoma, TN

Salary: Salary Range $8,534.00 - $11,076.00

Closing Date: 02/10/2025

Job Overview

Under general direction, provides information, data, legal advice, and support for the general counsel and other program areas. Performs work of average difficulty and has considerable knowledge of substantive and procedural law.

Provides hands on counsel to all levels of executive staff and assists in protecting an agency's legal interest and maintaining its operations within the scope established by law.

This class differs from that of the Senior Associate Counsel, who performs work of greater scope and complexity.

Minimum Qualifications

• Active License to practice law in Tennessee is required.
  
  

Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State's policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person's race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.