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Job Description
The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) is the nation's largest for-hire transportation agency, licensing and regulating the City's yellow and green taxicabs, for-hire vehicles, commuter vans, and luxury limousines. TLC develops and enforces rules to promote safety, transparency, as well as consumer and driver protection for a vital mode of transport in New York City. The vehicles, businesses, and drivers licensed and regulated by the agency move over one million people a day. With the use of its new Green Rides Initiative and regulation of apps (including apps like Uber, Lyft, and Curb) and technologies, TLC is on the front lines of a changing mobility and environmental landscape.
The successful candidate will serve as a Deputy General Counsel/Assistant Commissioner of Legal Affairs reporting to the Legal Affairs Division. In consultation and collaboration with TLC's General Counsel responsibilities will include: Manage a broad range of complex legal work; supervise a team of attorneys and support staff; serve as legal advisor regarding regulatory and governance issues, labor, conflicts of interest, contracts, procurement, local laws, and administrative and judicial proceedings; serve as a legal counsel for TLC management and senior staff; exercise legal knowledge and judgment on matters of law and public policy; serve as a management liaison with government agencies and outside entities; draft and review legal documents and policies; provide legal guidance regarding procurement issues and vendor responsibility; track and manage legal issues through resolution; lead investigations and research in compliance with NYS Civil Service Law, standards of conduct, and related laws and regulations; conduct review of applicable laws to ensure legal best practices; manage data driven analysis; prepare explanatory materials; draft advisory opinions; oversee internal investigations to ascertain facts and develop positions and recommendations; review legal claims and recommend appropriate action; assist senior management with legal aspects of areas of responsibility and resolve day-to-day issues; review requests for information ensuring legal compliance and transparency; represent TLC at internal and external meetings; develop and deliver high level presentations; and manage special legal projects as assigned.
Qualifications
Admission to the New York State Bar; and four years of recent full-time responsible, relevant, satisfactory legal experience subsequent to admission to any bar, eighteen months of which must have been in the supervision of other attorneys, in an administrative, managerial or executive capacity, or performing highly complex and significant legal work.
Incumbents must remain Members of the New York State Bar in good standing for the duration of this employment.
Additional Information
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, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.
Job Description
The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) is the nation's largest for-hire transportation agency, licensing and regulating the City's yellow and green taxicabs, for-hire vehicles, commuter vans, and luxury limousines. TLC develops and enforces rules to promote safety, transparency, as well as consumer and driver protection for a vital mode of transport in New York City. The vehicles, businesses, and drivers licensed and regulated by the agency move over one million people a day. With the use of its new Green Rides Initiative and regulation of apps (including apps like Uber, Lyft, and Curb) and technologies, TLC is on the front lines of a changing mobility and environmental landscape.
The successful candidate will serve as a Deputy General Counsel/Assistant Commissioner of Legal Affairs reporting to the Legal Affairs Division. In consultation and collaboration with TLC's General Counsel responsibilities will include: Manage a broad range of complex legal work; supervise a team of attorneys and support staff; serve as legal advisor regarding regulatory and governance issues, labor, conflicts of interest, contracts, procurement, local laws, and administrative and judicial proceedings; serve as a legal counsel for TLC management and senior staff; exercise legal knowledge and judgment on matters of law and public policy; serve as a management liaison with government agencies and outside entities; draft and review legal documents and policies; provide legal guidance regarding procurement issues and vendor responsibility; track and manage legal issues through resolution; lead investigations and research in compliance with NYS Civil Service Law, standards of conduct, and related laws and regulations; conduct review of applicable laws to ensure legal best practices; manage data driven analysis; prepare explanatory materials; draft advisory opinions; oversee internal investigations to ascertain facts and develop positions and recommendations; review legal claims and recommend appropriate action; assist senior management with legal aspects of areas of responsibility and resolve day-to-day issues; review requests for information ensuring legal compliance and transparency; represent TLC at internal and external meetings; develop and deliver high level presentations; and manage special legal projects as assigned.
Qualifications
Admission to the New York State Bar; and four years of recent full-time responsible, relevant, satisfactory legal experience subsequent to admission to any bar, eighteen months of which must have been in the supervision of other attorneys, in an administrative, managerial or executive capacity, or performing highly complex and significant legal work.
Incumbents must remain Members of the New York State Bar in good standing for the duration of this employment.
Additional Information
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, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.
