Job Details
Job Purpose:
The Corporate Counsel will report to the CBTS General Counsel and partner with business clients to provide holistic support well beyond legal issues, and act as a trusted, pragmatic business advisor and extended member of their team. The primary responsibilities for this role include ensuring compliance, drafting/reviewing contracts, and advising business groups and functions.
Essential Functions:
- Advise and counsel management and other internal clients across the business on commercial issues, legal compliance matters, contract interpretation, dispute resolution, and key risks;
- Draft, review, revise and negotiate agreements for various commercial arrangements, including sales/customer agreements, services agreements, product sale agreements, distribution and sales representative agreements, vendor agreements, non-disclosure agreements and licensing and development agreements. Broadly serve as a legal resource for the Company's business, sales and/or procurement teams;
- Analyze risks, and counsel various business stakeholders of potential business decisions in contract obligations, as well as identify data privacy and security risks;
- Respond promptly to requests from internal clients, and summarize and communicate legal risks in a way that business people can understand that pragmatically balances risk with the Company's business objectives;
- Provide continuous improvement of standard form agreements, playbooks, contract templates, and legal and operational processes;
- Provide leadership on cross-functional teams, identify legal issues, and provide legal options / analysis of possible legal solutions, all while interacting with external counsel (where appropriate), advisors, external vendors, and business;
- Keep informed of new laws, regulations, and industry trends affecting the Company, and assist with the development of policies and training as needed;
- Support corporate and strategic transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, real estate and other related transactions;
- Establish processes that incorporate best practices and the Company's strategic planning;
- Lead strategic change and improve/ facilitate cross-functional communication via interaction with and advice to a wide array of Company business groups and functions;
- Handle day-to-day legal issues arising in a growing and complex business - any other legal support as requested by the General Counsel.
Experience:
3 to 5 years of relevant legal experience at a law firm and/or in-house
Education:
- Juris Doctorate from an accredited law school and excellent academic credentials
- Licensed and in good standing to practice law in one or more states where Company does business
Special Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Practical business judgment and understanding of the difference between legal requirements and business risk
- Highly collaborative and motivated when working with colleagues to tackle collective challenges
- Efficient management of outside counsel on an as-needed basis
- Tremendous insight on a wide range of legal topics
- Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment with quick response time
- Professional demeanor and team player with a high degree of confidentiality
- Significant experience working as a commercial attorney and providing legal advice on a broad set of commercial and/or IP matters, with increasing levels of responsibility
- Excellent organizational and planning skills and the capacity to simultaneously handle a variety of complex matters under deadline pressure
- Strong demonstrated experience drafting and negotiating contracts
- Excellent written, verbal and analytical skills and an ability to communicate complex issues in a simple way and to orchestrate plans to resolve issues and mitigate risks
- Ability to form strong working relationships with other employees and business partners while maintaining firm adherence to proper legal standards
- Sound business judgment and strategic thinking. Flexibility and an interest in working on a broad variety of legal matters in order to understand and advise the Company on legal implications of its business strategy
- Attention to detail and the ability to work individually, within a multi-disciplinary team, as well as with external partners and vendors
Supervisory Responsibility:
- No supervisory responsibility
- May supervise paralegal or outside counsel on project-specific work