ASSISTANT COUNSEL - 71583

Executive Service

ASSISTANT COUNSEL

ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE COMMISSION

ADMINISTRATION

Nashville, TN

Salary: Minimum salary of $5,591

Closing Date: 09/29/2025

The agency is not offering opportunities to work full-time from home at this time.

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Background Check:

This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

Job Overview:

The TABC seeks to fill an Assistant Counsel position to focus on alcohol matters. This position will have responsibilities requiring interaction with many types of stakeholders, so a candidate that is responsive, approachable, and confident is ideal.

Key Responsibilities:

Provide counsel to director/commission members regarding licensure and regulatory matters. Assist in law enforcement investigations. Represent the agency in related contested case hearings. Other in-house counsel type legal matters including employment matters, contract review and responding to public records requests. Create written memoranda and advisory opinions regarding legal matters pending before the agency.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education and Experience Preferred Education and Experience: Active license to practice law in Tennessee or have pending admission to the Tennessee Bar. Prior experience is not required for this position.

Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State's policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person's race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.