The Law Director shall be the director of the Law Department. He shall be provided with such assistants and special counsel as the Council may from time to time deem to be necessary and/or desirable. The Law Director and any such assistants and/or special counsel shall be appointed and may be removed at any time by the Mayor, subject to confirmation by a majority vote of the members of Council. The Law Director shall be an attorney at law in good standing admitted to practice in the State of Ohio, but need not be a resident of the municipality. He 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 office, as may be assigned to him from time to time by the Mayor and Council.