Associate General Counsel

Details:

Posted:
November 3, 2025
Level:Management / Confidential (Executive
1)

Hours:

Full-time, 40 hours per week
Closing Date:

The committee will begin review of applications immediately. Applications must be submitted by 5:00pm (EST) on Monday, December 1, 2025

CSCU System Office
61 Woodland Street Hartford, CT 06105

** This position is not remote**
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The Connecticut State Colleges & Universities (CSCU) contribute to the creation of knowledge and the economic growth of the state of Connecticut by providing affordable, innovative, and rigorous programs. Our learning environments transform students and facilitate an ever-increasing number of individuals to achieve their personal and career goals.

The Connecticut State Colleges and Universities will build on its long and successful history by working collectively - within and across institutions - and by engaging external partners to increase the number of students pursuing and completing personally and professionally rewarding certificate and degree programs, improving their social mobility, and helping the state to meet its current and future workforce demands.

The Connecticut State Colleges and Universities commits to bold and disruptive change by actively identifying, naming, and dismantling structural racism, systemic poverty, and other barriers; establishing equitable and anti-racist policies and practices; and empowering students, faculty, staff, and administrators to advance racial, social, and economic justice. Our core collective responsibility is to continuously assess practices and policies and transform the world we live in by eliminating inequities.

The Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) Associate General Counsel is a professional member of the Office of General Counsel (OGC). OGC provides legal research, analysis, and legal services to the CSCU System Office and the constituent colleges and universities within the CSCU system. All attorneys of the CSCU Office of General Counsel are expected to work collaboratively within the CSCU system to mitigate legal risks, facilitate efficient business practices, manage a wide variety of complicated issues in a fast-paced higher education environment, exercise independent judgment, and function effectively with internal and external audiences.

Reporting to the CSCU General Counsel, the Associate General Counsel will provide legal guidance on a variety of topics with an emphasis on litigation management and working with the Connecticut Office of the Attorney General (OAG). This role offers a challenging and rewarding environment for an experienced attorney who is passionate about the intersection of law and higher education. This position is based at the CSCU System Office and reports to the CSCU General Counsel.

Under the direction of the General Counsel
, the Associate General Counsel is responsible for providing legal guidance on a variety of topics with an emphasis on litigation management through effective performance in these essential duties:

• Remain current with laws, rules, and regulations affecting higher education, with a specific focus on the legal implications of changes made to the policies of the Board of Regents for Higher Education (BOR). Draft and review BOR policies and procedures, regulations, bylaws, and other documents within legal specialty areas.
• Anticipate, identify, and help resolve legal and strategic risk management issues.
• Negotiate settlements involving legal issues or transactions in conjunction with CSCU officials, the General Counsel, and OAG, as appropriate.
• Assist with the management of litigation involving CSCU and its institutions including responding to discovery requests, subpoenas, and Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities (CHRO) complaints. Support trial preparation work in conjunction with OAG and attend and assist with depositions and trials.
• Research and analyze laws and regulations and prepare legal…