Assistant General Counsel

About Us

For more than 140 years, The University of Texas System has improved the lives of Texans — and people all over the world — through education, health care, and research. The System consists of nine academic institutions, four health institutions, and The University of Texas System Administration. The institutions of the UT System employ more than 160,000 faculty, health care professionals, researchers, support staff, and student workers.

The UT System Administration is primarily based in Austin, Texas. It supports the missions of the System’s thirteen institutions by providing financial, legal, planning, purchasing, government relations, communications, development, and other central services. Serving a growing state, the UT System Administration strives to provide a welcoming, supportive work environment that embraces different perspectives - not only because it enables the organization to be stronger, creative, and thoughtful, but because it is the right thing to do.

To that end, UT System Administration embraces state laws on military and former foster children employment preferences.

In the Office of General Counsel, we help our clients solve problems that affect their educational, healthcare, research, and business missions. Formally, we are a full-service legal department composed of 30+ attorneys in three practice groups:
Health Law, Business Law, and General Law. In partnership with other campus-based attorneys, we serve all 13 UT System Institutions.

The selected candidate will report to the Assistant Vice Chancellor and Managing Counsel for Health Law and provide advanced and specialized legal advice and representation to the UT System and its institutions. OGC’s Health Law Section is a group of attorneys and administrative staff with specialties that are critical to the mission of UT System. For example, Health Law is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the University of Texas System Professional Medical Liability Benefit Plan, a statutorily-authorized, self-funded medical malpractice plan providing coverage to UT health care providers as well as medical and dental students.

Health Law also provides legal advice and representation on operational, regulatory, and transactional matters. The selected candidate will provide legal advice and representation on medical malpractice, professional discipline, healthcare operations and regulations, tort, and administrative law.

• Provides legal advice and representation on a broad range of issues, with particular emphasis on medical malpractice, professional discipline, healthcare operations and regulations, tort, and administrative law.
• Works with outside counsel, the Attorney General’s Office, institutional legal and risk management offices, physicians, and medical staff to manage health related claims, litigation, Texas Medical Board complaints, and other regulatory proceedings involving UT physicians, other health care providers, and institutions.
• Drafts legal opinions, memoranda, and other work products.
• Reviews, interprets and applies relevant UT System policies, state and federal legislation, regulations, and sub-regulatory guidance.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Translate legal concepts to, and develop solutions with, a variety of clients, including administrators, other professionals, and other relevant stakeholders.
• Exhibits excellent oral and written communication, and analytical skills.
• Works inclusively and collaboratively, in person and remotely.
• Excellent time management skills and ability to manage competing priorities while ensuring timely completion.
• Embodies and supports OGC’s service principals.
• Agile individual who thrives in…