Published: August 23, 2024 – The Corporate Lawyer oversees and directs research activities related to potential violations of CFIA regulations and other governing laws, and leads the development of strategies for follow-up actions. This role involves designing tools and establishing reporting practices to consolidate evidence of false advertising, mislabeling, and trademark infringement. The lawyer also collaborates with internal stakeholders and senior management to ensure alignment with organizational mandates and adapt to evolving legislation for effective advocacy.
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1. Corporate Lawyer, Greenfield & Associates, Austin, TX
Job Summary:
- Review and prepare legal documents that are related to a wide range of corporate law subject matters, i.e. draft and comment on commercial contracts, etc.
- Supervision and implementation of the relevant compliance rules based on internal standard operating procedures and policies following applicable laws
- Review, prepare, and implement the annual compliance training plan, etc.
- Take responsibility for driving GDPR compliance
- Provide guidance and support on general legal issues that may arise
- Work with other outside counsels
- Working closely with managers to provide pragmatic advice on a broad range of legal issues and commercial risks arising within the Operations division
- Draft a range of commercial contracts with the support of business templates including procurement contracts, packaging, processing and wine supply contracts and grape purchase agreements
- Facilitating agile contract review and negotiation of various commercial contracts including procurement and energy contracts, leases, licenses and water rights
- Using technology and building self-service offerings to increase business agility
Skills on Resume:
- Legal Document Review (Hard Skills)
- Compliance Management (Hard Skills)
- GDPR Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Legal Advisory (Soft Skills)
- Collaboration with External Counsel (Soft Skills)
- Risk Mitigation (Soft Skills)
- Commercial Contract Drafting (Hard Skills)
- Technology Integration for Legal Processes (Hard Skills)
2. Corporate Lawyer, Redwood Legal Group, Denver, CO
Job Summary:
- Day-to-day corporate assistance to clients.
- Prepare corporate documents (corporate certificates, articles of association, shareholders registry books, etc.), and following up its formalization, deposit, or registry
- Corporate due diligence (in particular of new clients).
- Drafting commercial contracts (both in Spanish and English).
- Support and Assistance in M&A transactions (drafting investment and shareholders agreements, drafting sale and purchase agreements, building up the cap tables, assisting in the negotiation process, and assisting in the preparation of all the ancillary documents required to close a transaction).
- Preparation and coordination of the public deeds to be granted.
- Provide informal training, coaching, and support and provide clarification on HMO licensing, housing law, and regulatory enforcement to officers.
- Provide recommendations to senior management on best practices, review and assess the impact of legislative changes, and respond proactively to implement any needed changes.
- Maintain close contact and build strong relationships with external advisors and regulators
- Attend and participate in client meetings
- Ensure clients are aware of legal and regulatory changes and translate this into business opportunities
Skills on Resume:
- Corporate Assistance (Soft Skills)
- Corporate Document Preparation (Hard Skills)
- Due Diligence (Hard Skills)
- Bilingual Contract Drafting (Hard Skills)
- M&A Transaction Support (Hard Skills)
- Regulatory Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Client Relationship Management (Soft Skills)
- Legal and Regulatory Advisory (Soft Skills)
3. Corporate Lawyer, Maplewood Law Firm, Raleigh, NC
Job Summary:
- Review agreements with agreements with clients (Secrecy Agreement, Letter of Intent, Addenda, Termination Letter of Agreement) and clinical trial services suppliers (Secrecy Agreement, Letter of Intent, Addenda, Termination Letter of Agreement) and for compliance with local legislation and TFS guidelines
- Adapt and negotiate, if necessary, contract clauses
- Develop TFS legal templates, procedures and internal guidelines.
- Responsible for facilitating and responding to company, client and regulatory audits
- Support as applicable and provide internal and external clients with timely advice on law-related legal requests
- Maintain a working knowledge of ICH/GCP, SOPs and applicable client SOPs
- Assist the senior members of Legal Services in ensuring that the Council complies with all legislative requirements and providing a solution-focused legal service that is pro-active as well as reactive.
- Attend internal and external meetings as directed.
- Carry out all duties following the council’s policies on health and safety and equal opportunities
- Carry out all accountabilities in compliance with the Council’s Policies and Procedures
Skills on Resume:
- Agreement Review (Hard Skills)
- Contract Negotiation (Hard Skills)
- Legal Template Development (Hard Skills)
- Audit Facilitation (Hard Skills)
- Legal Advisory (Soft Skills)
- Regulatory Knowledge (Hard Skills)
- Legislative Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Meeting Participation (Soft Skills)
4. Corporate Lawyer, Silver Birch & Partners, Tampa, FL
Job Summary:
- Advising on strategic projects involving the firm's group structure, including the opening of new offices, business reorganizations and establishing of new entities and structures
- Advise on the firm's global group structure, including facilitating entity board meetings, preparing corporate governance documentation and intra-group agreements, and assisting with the internal management of the corporate structure
- Assisting with and leading projects to analyze and give effect to regulatory changes affecting the firm and its clients
- Being at the forefront of the management and implementation of the firm's global risk agenda, including global risk management policies, and advising the firm on complex risk issues
- Delivering innovative strategies and solutions to legal, regulatory and compliance issues faced by the firm
- Maintain existing corporate entities in addition to forming new ones
- Identify and resolve corporate/operational legal issues (multi-state integration, trade name, usage, insurance, agency, etc)
- Manage employment and commercial litigation matters
- Manage outside legal counsel matters including discovery review, pleadings, filings, etc
- Draft and negotiate vendor contracts, agreements, leases, etc
Skills on Resume:
- Strategic Project Advisory (Soft Skills)
- Corporate Governance (Hard Skills)
- Regulatory Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Risk Management (Hard Skills)
- Legal Innovation (Soft Skills)
- Entity Formation and Maintenance (Hard Skills)
- Litigation Management (Hard Skills)
- Contract Drafting and Negotiation (Hard Skills)
5. Corporate Lawyer, Oak Ridge Legal Advisors, Columbus, OH
Job Summary:
- Provide legal assistance and advice to officers in managing housing and regulatory-type enforcement casework.
- Represent the council at court and Residential Property Tribunals on prosecution cases and appeals.
- Ensure effective working relationships are developed and fostered with officers by giving accurate and timely advice.
- Undertake legal research about allocated projects by the Head of Private Rented Housing
- Responsible for their work as allocated by management, always ensuring value for money for the Council, communication with the client, and working to the Lexcel standard.
- Conduct all aspects of legal work on the range of Local Authority legal work, as allocated, and working with limited supervision.
- Adopt best practices in the management of individual matters through the appropriate use of the Legal Services case management system and good legal practice management standards
- Conduct own advocacy, where relevant, including hearings.
- Provide guidance and support to officers on private rented housing enforcement and regulatory-related casework, appeals, and prosecutions, including the coordination and drafting of all legal documentation.
- Ensure officers within the Private Rented Housing Team are kept abreast of relevant developments in housing law and policy and receive proactive advice and guidance on possible legal issues affecting the delivery of the licensing schemes.
Skills on Resume:
- Legal Assistance (Soft Skills)
- Court Representation (Hard Skills)
- Relationship Building (Soft Skills)
- Legal Research (Hard Skills)
- Case Management (Hard Skills)
- Advocacy (Hard Skills)
- Regulatory Guidance (Soft Skills)
- Housing Law Expertise (Hard Skills)
6. Corporate Lawyer, Blue River Legal Services, Nashville, TN
Job Summary:
- Provide innovative and commercial solutions to client's complex and diverse legal and regulatory challenges in the areas of public M&A, IPOs, private M&A, schemes of arrangement, restructures and takeovers and/or PE with an interest in energy and resources, and the energy transition and/or agribusiness
- Develop leadership skills to train and inspire the lawyers of the future
- Demonstrate initiative, self-motivation and curiosity, particularly around adopting and adapting to the technological, societal, and market changes in the legal and other professional services industries
- Work in multi-disciplinary teams to provide market-leading strategic commercial solutions to clients
- Build and maintain strong relationships with other staff members both within the PwC legal practice and more broadly across the other PwC lines of service
- Ensure client portfolio is in good standing
- Draft and review correspondence and agreements on behalf of the companies
- Coordinate incorporation, maintenance, and dissolution of companies
- Manage all legal requirements covering contractual matters and licensing
- Effectively enables team members to act on behalf of the organization
Skills on Resume:
- Innovative Legal Solutions (Soft Skills)
- Leadership Development (Soft Skills)
- Adaptability (Soft Skills)
- Strategic Commercial Solutions (Hard Skills)
- Relationship Building (Soft Skills)
- Contract Drafting and Review (Hard Skills)
- Corporate Management (Hard Skills)
- Team Empowerment (Soft Skills)
7. Corporate Lawyer, Stonehill & Rose Attorneys, Portland, OR
Job Summary:
- Carry out broad and complex legal assignments involving coordination with multiple functional areas within the company.
- Assist in reviewing and negotiating a wide range of legal documents, including vendor, equipment lease, distribution, manufacturing, license, supply, warranty, production contracts, real estate agreements, and loan and financing agreements
- Close communication and assistance with both outside and in-house legal counsel as well as with the executive management team.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with the company’s sales, operations, engineering, information technology, human resources, marketing, and finance groups to understand and ensure consistency of agreement terms within the company’s business objectives.
- Plays a key role in ensuring a work environment that promotes organization-centric information sharing
- Develops and maintains a climate that attracts, retains, and motivates top talent
- Recruits, mentors, evaluates, supervises, supports, develops, promotes and guides qualified personnel
- Ensures effective management and regular communication within the team with provision for succession
- Supports and recommends cross-functional abilities throughout individual teams and the organization as a whole, where applicable
- Conduct various additional legal and ad hoc projects
Skills on Resume:
- Complex Legal Assignments (Hard Skills)
- Contract Review and Negotiation (Hard Skills)
- Cross-functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Executive Communication (Soft Skills)
- Talent Management (Soft Skills)
- Team Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Legal Project Management (Hard Skills)
- Succession Planning (Soft Skills)
8. Corporate Lawyer, Cypress Grove Legal Group, Sacramento, CA
Job Summary:
- Oversees, assesses, and delegates research activities related to potential, implied and actual contraventions to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and/or other applicable governing regulations
- Leads development and implementation of a strategy to follow up on research results with the CFIA and/or other applicable bodies
- Design tools to consolidate research and records of false advertising, packaging and labeling, and/or trademark infringement evidence that could suggest adverse impacts to the Canadian dairy industry and/or its valued members and consumers
- Establishes standard reporting practices for mislabelling of non-dairy products
- Creates a vocabulary dictionary of frequently used terminology that could mislead or misdirect consumer buying behavior
- Determines appropriate courses of action related to market trends, posed threats, and key mitigation strategies.
- Collaborates with internal stakeholders (including domestic and international trade, government relations and member services) to spearhead research and analysis related to actual or perceived impacts on dairy market integrity
- Spearheads improvement and development of strategies and research methods
- Engages in regular communications with senior management to leverage evolving legislation and regulations that could or would affect future advocacy efforts
- Leads the team’s development to align with organizational mandates and strategic plans for the applicable department or service area by articulating DFC’s mandate, mission, vision and values
Skills on Resume:
- Regulatory Compliance Oversight (Hard Skills)
- Research Strategy Development (Hard Skills)
- Evidence Consolidation (Hard Skills)
- Standard Reporting Practices (Hard Skills)
- Consumer Behavior Analysis (Soft Skills)
- Market Trend Analysis (Soft Skills)
- Stakeholder Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Team Leadership and Development (Soft Skills)