The Law Director shall be the head of the Law Department. He or she shall be provided with such assistants and special counsel as the Council may from time to time deem to be necessary or desirable. The Law Director and any such assistants or special counsel shall be appointed and may be removed at any time by the Mayor, subject to the confirmation by a majority vote of the members of Council. The Law Director shall be an attorney at law in good standing, admitted to the practice of law in the State of Ohio, but need not be a resident of the Municipality. He or she shall be the chief legal advisor and attorney for the Municipality and its officers, departments, boards and commissions in their official capacities and shall perform such other duties, consistent with his or her office, as may be assigned to him or her from time to time by the Mayor and Council.