Counsel (General Counsel) - VID 223363

The Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control/State Liquor Authority’s (ABC/SLA) General Counsel (“GC”) is the chief legal officer of ABC/SLA, providing advice and direction to its senior management and all of its bureaus.

Unlike other state agencies, ABC/SLA represents itself in state courts: in Article 78 proceedings challenging disciplinary and licensing decisions and other types of cases.

Accordingly, the GC must have significant experience handling and/or managing civil litigation.

Duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Reporting directly to the Chair.
• Serve as legal counsel to the Members of the SLA Board at Board Meetings and in other contexts.
• Lead a staff of approximately 20 employees, most of them attorneys.
• Represent ABC/SLA, through the prosecuting attorneys on its staff, in administrative hearings held at the SLA, most of them disciplinary cases handled in a quasi-trial format with adverse attorneys before an Administrative Law Judge.
• Provide advice to the agency and its Board on legislation, rules/regulations, and the informal guidance it issues and engaging (along with senior SLA management) with elected officials and industry groups on those and other matters.
• Routinely provide assistance to industry members and the public on industry matters, including from time to time issuing formal opinions of Counsel on particular legal issues.
• Providing additional strategic legal guidance to executive leadership on complex, high profile, or other emerging agency matters as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

A law degree from an accredited law school; admission to, and member in good standing of, the New York State Bar; and eight years of relevant post-bar experience.

Note:

In Order to Award the Proper Credit for Work

EXPERIENCE, RESUMES MUST INCLUDE MONTH AND YEAR FOR START AND END DATES.

If Any of This Experience Is Less Than Full Time You Must

INDICATE THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF HOURS WORKED PER WEEK.