The City Manager shall appoint a City Solicitor, who shall serve at the pleasure of the City Manager. The City Solicitor shall be an attorney-at-law admitted to practice in Ohio, but who may or may not be a resident of the Village. The City Solicitor shall be the legal advisor of, and attorney and counsel for, the Village and for all officers and departments thereof in all matters relating to their official duties and shall when requested give legal opinions in writing. The City Solicitor shall represent the Village in all suits or cases in which it may be a party and shall prosecute all offenses against the ordinances of the Village and such offenses against the laws of Ohio as may be required by law. The City Solicitor shall, on request of the City Manager, prepare all contracts, bonds and other instruments in writing in which the Village is concerned, and shall endorse approval of the form and correctness thereof on each. The City Solicitor shall perform all other duties of a legal nature imposed by any ordinance or measure of Council or imposed upon the chief legal officers of municipalities by a general law of Ohio which such municipalities are not entitled to modify. The City Manager may retain special counsel to handle any such matters as the City Manager deems necessary.