Senior Legal Advisor | Executive Bureau

Boston Bar Association; Boston (MA); Hybride; USD 147 000 - 175 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Boston Bar Association seeks an experienced Senior Legal Advisor to support the Attorney General’s executive team and five bureaus. The role focuses on launching and expanding matters that deepen the office’s impact, with cross-bureau collaboration and leadership of priority initiatives.

Responsibilities include planning, resourcing, coordinating legal work, and reporting progress to the Attorney General. Location is Boston with a hybrid remote option; full-time exempt position.

Qualifications

• At least ten (10) years of legal practice.

Responsabilités

• Identify key strategic priority matters to advance.
• Develop implementation plans with required resources.
• Provide ongoing progress reports to the Attorney General and executive team.
• Lead cross-divisional initiatives and priority projects.

Connaissances

Strategic planning

Leadership

Legal writing

Policy advocacy

Description du poste

SENIOR LEGAL ADVISOR

EXECUTIVE BUREAU

(Boston Office)

Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell seeks an experienced and highly motivated attorney to join her senior executive team as Senior Legal Advisor. The Senior Legal Advisor will be responsible for supporting the Attorney General, her executive team, and bureaus and divisions across the office on implementation of the office’s strategic priorities. This will include leading or supporting priority matters and helping to align resources to maximize use of the tools of the office to achieve particular goals. The work of the Senior Legal Advisor will cut across all five substantive bureaus in the office and will be particularly focused on launching and expanding matters that will deepen the office’s impact in areas of particular focus.

Primary Duties

• Work with the executive team, and Division, Bureau, and Unit leadership to identify key strategic priority matters to advance, consistent with the AGO's strategic plan
• Support the development of implementation plans for executing on these matters, including:
  • Defining resources necessary to execute, to include leadership, case management, and any external resources (e.g. consultants)
  • As needed, providing assistance launching or advancing these matters, including legal work and coordination.
  • Ensuring regular progress reports to the Attorney General and the rest of the executive team.
• Leading cross-divisional or otherwise unassigned initiatives or projects that are priorities of the Attorney General

Position Requirements

• At least ten (10) years of legal practice, with a preference for (a) complex litigation in a field related to consumer protection, civil rights, health care, or other areas of practice in the AGO; and (b) impact litigation or policy advocacy resulting in demonstrable change
• Experience setting organizational goals, engaging in strategic planning, implementing effective systems, and executing on strategic projects.
• An ability to lead and develop teams, mentor junior staff and attorneys, and work effectively and respectfully with a cross-sectional, diverse group of managers and non-managers to accomplish goals.
• Outstanding research, writing, litigation, and advocacy skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work both independently and as part of a team.

Demonstrated connection to the people and communities we serve, and an interest in supporting a respectful, diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment.

Location: Boston, MA. Our hybrid model includes some remote workdays for the successful candidate.

Position Type:Full-Time/Exempt

Salary:$147,202 to $175,468, commensurate with relevant experience

The application deadline for this posting is December 4, 2026, at 5:00 PM (ET)

Qualified individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. We will gladly assist applicants in need of an accommodation. For assistance, contact the Human Resources Division at [phone].

Inquiries regarding position & status may be made to

Sandra Waters

Executive Assistant to the First Assistant Attorney General

617-963-2058

The Attorney General’s Office is an Equal Opportunity Employer. As the representative of the Commonwealth and its residents, the Attorney General’s Office strives to ensure that those working in our office reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. The Office encourages applicants from a broad spectrum of backgrounds to apply for positions.