Overview
This position supports a national law firm’s legal and regulatory obligations to clients and regulators by providing advice, consultation, direction, and assistance across a broad range of legal matters. The role is remote and requires an Associate General Counsel to identify substantive legal issues and operational concerns and deliver sound, creative solutions to improve the organization.
Responsibilities
- Take full responsibility for all legal matters assigned, including:
- Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating client retention, vendor, technology, professional services, licensing, confidentiality, and other commercial agreements.
- Advising business leaders on contractual, regulatory, operational, and reputational risk.
- Managing contract matters independently from intake through execution.
- Supporting litigation oversight, including outside counsel, strategy, budgets, deadlines, exposure assessments, and status reporting.
- Supporting corporate governance and entity-management functions, including annual reports, state filings, foreign qualifications, registered-agent matters, corporate records, board consents, and minutes.
- Partnering with compliance, information security, technology, procurement, finance, and operations.
- Developing and maintaining templates, clause libraries, negotiation playbooks, and approval of workflows.
- Supporting contract lifecycle management and other legal-operations initiatives.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned; this job description is not intended to be all-inclusive.
Requirements
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
- High degree of organizational skills.
- Detail oriented with strong analytical skills and problem-solving capabilities.
- Strong time-management and prioritization skills.
- Self-driven with ability to work independently or collaboratively, as needed.
- Excellent and adaptive interpersonal and communication skills.
- Commitment to providing exceptional, responsive, and time-bound client service.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, etc.) and generally computer savvy.
- Compliance focused.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong emotional intelligence.
Training & Experience
- J.D. from an accredited law school and active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
- Approximately 5 to 10 years of relevant legal experience, including substantial commercial-contracting responsibility.
- Experience managing litigation and outside counsel.
- Experience supporting corporate governance, entity management, or corporate-secretary functions.
- Strong drafting, negotiation, analytical, and communication skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, exercise sound judgment, and work independently.
- Practical, business-focused approach to identifying and resolving risk.
- Contract lifecycle management systems experience, with Ironclad experience strongly preferred.
- Legal operations, process improvement, and contract workflow design preferred.
Preferred Qualifications
- Contract lifecycle management systems experience (Ironclad strongly preferred).
- Legal operations, process improvement, and contract workflow design.
Compensation & Benefits
Eligible employees may enroll in the following benefit offerings:
- Medical coverage
- HSA with quarterly employer contributions
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Group Life insurance*
- Supplemental Life Insurance plans
- Long and Short Term Disability
- First Stop Health for all employees*
- Legal Service benefit for all employees
- Hospital and accident indemnity coverage
- National discount programs for all employees*
- 401k with employer matching
- PTO* (accrual based)
*No cost benefit
Location
Remote.
Conditions of Work
- Ability to sit or stand for long periods.
- Ability to remain focused for extended periods.
- Ability to work extra hours to accomplish goals.
- Ability to work on computers for a significant portion of the day.
- Ability to travel domestically, if necessary.
Equal Opportunity & Work Authorization
The employer is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be authorized to work in the United States. The employer participates in E-verify and all hires are required to verify identity as a part of the E-verify I-9 process during onboarding.