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Acts as legal advisor to assigned internal clients or other company attorneys with respect to matters related to the area of specialty. Identifies legal risk and recommends solutions that help address the client’s objectives. Represents company in transactions, interactions, or disputes with customers, suppliers, partners, and competitors. Balances the business interests of client groups with ultimate fiduciary responsibility to company. Represents the company before industry policy setting organizations, government agencies, and other regulatory bodies. Areas of law practiced may include intellectual property law, mergers and acquisitions, corporate securities law, litigation, employment, structured financial deals, US government contracting, outsourcing, environmental, employee benefits, or bankruptcy.
Job Responsibility:
Leads the overall legal strategies and risks by providing expertise in one or more critical, highly specialized and/or complex areas with company-wide impact
Plans and facilitates the training and mentoring strategy to educate senior managers, team members and clients on complex topics within a specific legal concentration
Leads the resolution of the company's most critical, highest impact and often high visibility legal, regulatory, and business issues requiring the most in-depth and specialized knowledge and judgment
Acts as a thought leader in the local/regional environment by advising on highly complex laws and regulations, with far-reaching implications, for the local/regional operations/businesses as well as company-wide
Exerts influence on external industry counsels, policies, and regulatory bodies in area of specialization
Requirements:
Advanced university degree in law (e.g. JD or LLB)
additional advanced degree relevant to the specialty preferred
Meets local legal license requirements
Typically 12+ years commercial legal experience at a law firm or in-house
Extensive national and possibly international experience leading multiple, highly complex, strategic, specialty law projects, issues, and transactions
English language skills to business standard required