Assistant/Associate General Counsel

About the Opportunity

This position reports directly to the Vice President and General Counsel (GC). The Assistant/Associate General Counsel will represent and advocate the legal interests of West Virginia University, West Virginia University Research Corporation, the WVU Board of Governors, and others on legal matters affecting the University by rendering a broad array of legal services.

We strongly believe in work-life balance and keeping time for things we love outside our work. WVU offers generous benefits, including:

• 37.5-hour work week
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  13 paid holidays(staff holiday calendar)

  
  
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  24 annual leave (vacation) days per year (employee leave)

  
  
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  18 sick days per year(for when you're ill, for when you need time to care for sick family, for your own, or your family's, regularly scheduled medical appointments. Who is family for the purpose of this leave? A lot of people in your life including immediate relatives and in-laws as well as others considered to be members of your household living under the same roof)

  
  
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  WVU offers a range ofhealth insurance and other benefits

  
  
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  401(a) retirement savings with 6% employee contribution match, eligibility to continue health insurance, and other retiree perks. Looking formore retirement benefits information? Check out retirement health insurance benefits, retirement income, and FAQ's.

  
  
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  Wellness programs

  
  

What You'll Do:

• Provide direct policy-making input and advice on matters of substantial magnitude related to critical University activities, policy questions, and operation procedures and as needed, draft, modify, or review institutional policies, procedures, and practices.
  
• Review, analyze, and develop appropriate and timely responses to FOIA requests, subpoenas, and other record requests that relate to the University
  
• As assigned, manage and oversee outside counsel in litigation where WVU is a named party.
  
• As assigned, act as lead counsel to prepare and defend WVU physicians in litigation that WVU is not a named party.
  
• Assist WVU staff on management of University's trademarks. Provide legal advice and counsel on trademark, licensing, and copyright issues.
  
• Review, analyze, and develop appropriate and timely responses to OCR complaints filed against the University.
  
• Review, develop, and draft appropriate University-related policies. Review and provide comments on policies received from the WV Higher Education Policy Commission.
  
• Review, draft, and negotiate contracts on behalf of the University.
  
• Assist the University and support staff assigned to the University, for federal, state, and industry sponsored contract and research grant solicitation, negotiation, administration, and compliance.
  
• Provide advice on issues related to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and/or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
  
• Provide advice on issues related to higher education law, health care law, corporate law, employment, compliance with federal and state regulations, immigration, and/or intellectual property.
• Conduct legal research and draft memoranda.
  
• Provide, under supervision of GC, high quality advice to the Board on legal matters affecting the University, WVURC, and UIC.