Assistant Counsel

Assistant Counsel

The New York City Mayor's Office is responsible for overseeing city services throughout the five boroughs, coordinating public agencies and departments, and managing public property. The administration is leading the fight in making the city more affordable, reducing inequality, improving public safety, ensuring delivery of efficient and effective services, and working to make New York City's economy stronger. The Office of the Chief Counsel to the Mayor and City Hall provides legal and strategic guidance to the Mayor and senior policymakers in City Hall on a broad range of matters, including policy, planning, litigation, legislation, compliance, ethics, and transparency.

The Office of the Chief Counsel to the Mayor and City Hall is seeking a dynamic, public service-minded attorney to work closely with senior policymakers. The Assistant Counsel will report to the Chief of Staff and the Chief Counsel. Key tasks will include researching local, state, and federal laws, providing policy guidance and legal analysis to City Hall staff to advance mayoral initiatives, working with senior administration officials on various transparency projects, analyzing conflicts, ethics, and privacy questions for the Mayor's Office, drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts, releases, licenses, and other agreements on behalf of the Mayor's Office, providing legal analysis to the Mayor's Office staff in employment, EEO, and conflict matters, acting as a City Hall policy advisor to the agencies reporting to the Chief Counsel, and reviewing and making legal judgments about sensitive material.

Minimum required qualifications include being an attorney admitted to the New York State Bar and having 1+ years of relevant legal experience, including, but not limited to, civil rights, criminal defense, government service, private practice, and/or prosecutorial experience.

New York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment. However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County. To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.

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.