Chief Legal Counsel

Chief Legal CounselThe South Carolina Department of Commerce seeks a highly experienced, practical, and strategic attorney to serve as Chief Legal Counsel. This position provides a unique opportunity to help shape South Carolina's economic future. The Chief Legal Counsel serves at the center of transformational economic development projects, infrastructure investments, incentive programs, and public-private partnerships that create jobs and strengthen communities throughout the state. The position plays a key role in advising executive leadership on some of the state's most significant business recruitment, expansion, and infrastructure initiatives.This role serves as the chief legal advisor to the Secretary of Commerce, Deputy Secretary of Commerce, executive leadership team, and agency divisions on legal, governance, compliance, transactional, operational, and risk-related matters affecting the agency and its economic development mission.The successful candidate must understand the intersection of law, public policy, economic development, confidentiality, transparency, public finance, incentives, contracts, ethics, procurement, legislative activity, and executive decision-making. This position requires sound legal judgment, discretion, business acumen, political awareness, strong communication skills, and the ability to help the agency move forward responsibly in a fast-paced, high-profile public-sector environment.