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Employment Law Attorney

Ohio Department of Behavioral Health
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What you’ll do at DBH:

Employment & Labor Law Consultation

  • Serves as lead legal consultant for statewide employment and labor matters, including discipline, investigations, collective bargaining, accommodations, EEO, ADA, FMLA, public records related to personnel, and workforce policy issues.
  • Researches, analyzes, and interprets federal and state employment laws.
  • Advises agency leadership, HR, and program administration on legal risk and compliance.

Statewide & Multi-Agency Initiatives

  • Plans, directs, and coordinates legal activities for major departmental and system-wide initiatives.
  • Serves as DBH legal representative on statewide and multi-agency workgroups and policy committees.
  • Reviews and analyzes proposed legislation, administrative rules, and regulatory actions affecting employment and labor operations.

Lead Attorney & Legal Oversight

  • Provides ongoing and project-based legal consultation to agency leadership.
  • Directs preparation and reviews legal documentation, including legal opinions, memoranda, correspondence, and contracts.
  • Exercises independent judgment on complex legal issues and serves as liaison with the Ohio Attorney General’s Office on assigned employment and labor matters.
  • Coordinates with the agency’s legislative liaison regarding employment-related statutory and rule changes.

Litigation & Administrative Proceedings

  • Assists the Chief Legal Counsel and Legal Office Chief with employment-related litigation and administrative proceedings, including matters before the Ohio Court of Claims and Federal and state courts.
  • Participates in pre-trial conferences; reviews case documentation; assesses legal risk; and develops recommendations regarding settlement, resolution, or appeal.
  • Ensures consistency with agency policy and DAS standards in the development and management of case materials.


This is an hourly position and is exempt from the bargaining units, with a pay range of 15 on the E1 Exempt Pay Range Schedule. Normal working hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm (Flexible Schedule).

Unless required by any applicable union contract and/or requirements of the Ohio Revised Code, the selected candidate will begin at Step 1 of the pay range schedule listed above, with an opportunity for pay increase after six months of satisfactory performance and then a yearly raise thereafter.

Qualifications

Admission to Ohio Bar pursuant to Section 4705.01 of Revised Code; 18 mos. exp. as licensed attorney; 6 mos. exp. in supervisory principles/techniques.

 

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