Legal Manager
Atlanta, GA · HybridFull-time$77–102K/yrPosted 6 days agoStill listed 4 days ago
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The Legal Manager serves as a legal resource, providing advice and supporting operational and programmatic activities for the Department of Community Health. The role coordinates legal proceedings, including administrative appeals, hearings, and litigation, and conducts legal research and analysis on statutes, regulations, case law, policies, liability, compliance, and risk-management issues. It also recommends and implements policies and procedures, directs staff, and provides leadership across multiple units, departments, or regions.
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Explore a World of Opportunity with the State of Georgia! We are the force that drives Georgia! Georgia State Government is a large enterprise, composed of various agencies and entities with a common goal to improve the lives of Georgia's more than 10 million citizens! Join Team Georgia and impact lives everyday while receiving a robust benefits package designed for every stage of your career!
Job Title: Legal ManagerAgency: Department of Community Health Job Requisition ID: JR0000003202Shift: Not Applicable (United States of America)Compensation Details: $76,821.60 - $101,880 Job Description: Serves a legal resource and provides legal advice and assists with operational, and programmatic activities for a department, agency or facility. This role also coordinates legal proceedings, to include administrative appeals, hearings, and litigation, conducting legal research and providing analysis regarding statutes, regulations, case law, policies, liability, compliance and risk- management issues.
Recommends and implements policies and procedures. Directs subordinate managers and staff. Will provide some direction and influence on agency policy. Provides leadership across multiple units, departments, and/or regions. Performs other legal duties and special projects as assigned by the Inspector General or authorized Department leadership
Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in operations management, business administration, or a related field which includes five (5) years in a managerial or supervisory role; or nine (9) years of related professional experience which includes five (5) years in a managerial or supervisory role; or five (5) years of experience required at the lower level Sr Mgr, Business Ops (GSM012) or position equivalent.--Note: An equivalent combination of knowledge, education, job or intern experience, training, or certifications that provides the necessary knowledge and skills to successfully perform the job at the level listed may be substituted year-over-year. Equal Employment Opportunity Employer The State of Georgia does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, or other protected categories in employment or the provision of services. Qualified applicants may request reasonable accommodation when needed during the application and/or screening process by contacting the appropriate agency Human Resources department.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,736 open Legal Counsel jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$77–102K/yr
- Georgia median$146–225K/yr54 salary ranges
- US median$151–230K/yr2,044 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $89K, is 50% below the Georgia median midpoint ($180K) — in the lowest quarter of Legal Counsel salary ranges in Georgia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 75 open Legal Counsel jobs in Georgia and 2,736 across the US. 10% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Georgia
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- State of Georgia (this employer)3 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 9 years of experience — more than three in four Legal Counsel postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 2,425 postings).
- Education
- 2,095 of the 2,736 open Legal Counsel jobs (77%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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