Legal Counsel / Attorney

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## Essential Functions

• Under general direction, serves a Legal Counsel- Sangamon County for
  
  

the Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT) providing general

and specialized legal advice and assistance for the administrative

and operational functions of the States Information Technology (IT)

agency DoIT.

• Provides legal review and guidance on matters involving ethics and
  
  

compliance in working with DoIT Legal team and DoIT senior

leadership to address and resolve employee-related legal issues,

Equal Employment Officer matters, Office of the Executive Inspector

General (OEIG) requests, ethics inquiries and investigations, and

various compliance issues.

• Oversees under general direction, Illinois Freedom of Information
  
  

Act (FOIA) matters, requests for electronically stored information

(ESI), litigation impacting the department, and legal issues related

to document storage and record retention.

• Assists under general direction, in reviewing and drafting
  
  

legislation, regulations, resolutions, procedures, rules, executive

and administrative orders, and policies for final review and

approval by DoIT Leadership.

• Provides legal guidance as needed to ensure all statutory and
  
  

regulatory requirements are satisfied in resolving any

procurement-related and contract disputes.

• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably
  
  

within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

## Minimum Qualifications

• Requires a law degree.
• Requires a license to practice law in the State of Illinois.
• Requires three (3) years of progressively responsible professional
  
  

experience in legal-related matters.