Chief Legal Counsel
The South Carolina Department of Commerce seeks a highly experienced, practical, and strategic attorney to serve as Chief Legal Counsel.
This position provides a unique opportunity to help shape South Carolina’s economic future. The Chief Legal Counsel serves at the center of transformational economic development projects, infrastructure investments, incentive programs, and public-private partnerships that create jobs and strengthen communities throughout the state. The position plays a key role in advising executive leadership on some of the state’s most significant business recruitment, expansion, and infrastructure initiatives.
This role serves as the chief legal advisor to the Secretary of Commerce, Deputy Secretary of Commerce, executive leadership team, and agency divisions on legal, governance, compliance, transactional, operational, and risk-related matters affecting the agency and its economic development mission.
The successful candidate must understand the intersection of law, public policy, economic development, confidentiality, transparency, public finance, incentives, contracts, ethics, procurement, legislative activity, and executive decision-making. This position requires sound legal judgment, discretion, business acumen, political awareness, strong communication skills, and the ability to help the agency move forward responsibly in a fast-paced, high-profile public-sector environment.
All applications must be submitted through the following website >
The 50th Workshop: Building Bonds for Our Future
For five decades, this conference has been the premier gathering for public finance professionals at every level, bringing together the nation’s leading municipal bond, tax, and securities attorneys to strengthen professional relationships, exchange ideas, and advance the practice of public finance law. We are excited to be back in Chicago, where it all began, for The Workshop 2026 on October 14 to 16.
