Assistant General Counsel

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Assistant General Counsel

Duties: Provides advice and counsel to the Governing Board, Chancellor and President, Vice Presidents and other administrators on legal matters that affect. Keeps abreast of emerging legal issues that may have an impact on the University, programs, or curriculum. Researches legal issues and provides written recommendations and memorandum. Drafts and reviews contracts. Reviews legal documents as necessary. Provides legal support on employment matters including interpretation of applicable laws and regulations. Assists with responses to requests for public information in accordance with the Texas Public Information Act. Assists General Counsel to develop, coordinating and conduct in-service training on legal topics for administrators and support staff. Assists with the development, review and preparation of board agendas, and posting notices. Supports the General Counsel in representing in Administrative and legal proceedings. Assists with the development, preparation and implementation of policies, by-laws, administrative procedures and other guidelines. Assists General Counsel in the supervision of outside counsel. Assists the General Counsel with the Board meetings. Provides legal support, and/or interpretations on labor laws, discrimination complaints, grievance processes, and faculty and student issues. Assists the General Counsel with supervisory duties of the staff of the Office of the General Counsel. Reviews, negotiate, drafts and conducts administrative organization of clinical affiliation agreements. Works with academic departments and sometimes affiliates to ensure smooth facilitation of clinical affiliation agreements from the creation of the document to final execution and implementation. Reviews procurement contracts and non-clinical academic agreements (MOUs, NDAs, Research, Intellectual Property, etc.) for legal sufficiency, and business terms, if necessary. Reaches out to departments to explain the legal consequences of business terms. Utilizes software management for Contract Administration. Works with vendor counsel to negotiate agreeable terms. Assigns contract number and notifies department. Reviews contracts for missing and incorrect information, legal sufficiency, and compliance issues (e.g. arbitration clauses, criminal background check clauses, FERPA, indemnification, insurance, liability, and subrogation). Trains academic departments on how to use software systems to process affiliation agreements. Drafts Knowledge Base Articles for stakeholders to request service from the Office of General Counsel. Assists with complex and high-level contracts and agreements. Researches and develops opinions as assigned by General Counsel. Provides legal advice to requesting faculty and staff. Processes complex and routine public information act requests. Identify departments with responsive information. Sends requests to departments with responsive information. Reviews requests for Public Information Act exceptions and necessary redactions. Makes necessary redactions. Drafts 10 to 15-day letters to the Office of the Attorney General for exceptions and redactions. Drafts cost estimate letters. Sends responsive information, cost estimate, or 10 and 15-day briefs to the requester. Ensures timely processing. Creates maintains and monitors files. Assists General Counsel with the Board of Regent meetings. Updates Board information and forms. Updates new Board of Regent information. Assists General Counsel with Board Secretary duties as needed. Performs other duties as requested.

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Job: IRC47372.

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Texas Woman's University
1815 Administration Drive
Denton
Texas
United States 76204
Website : http://www.twu.edu/