WHAT DOES AN ATTORNEY DO?

Published: May 16, 2025 - The Attorney acquires and applies legal expertise to support contract drafting, negotiation, interpretation, and compliance across company operations. This position ensures adherence to internal policies, and contributes to enterprise-wide legal initiatives and risk management strategies. This role collaborates with internal departments and external counsel to address legal matters and maintain alignment with business objectives.

A Review of Professional Skills and Functions for Attorney

1. Attorney Duties

  • Client Advising: Advising firm clients and manage client relationships on legal and regulatory developments affecting the telecommunications industry, satellite and earth station licensing, U.S. and foreign spectrum regulation, data protection and privacy, terrestrial wireless licensing, and international regulatory advice to private commercial entities and foreign governments
  • Team Supervision: Supervise a team on transactions and adjudications
  • Client Management: Assist managing client relationships
  • Proposal Preparation: Prepare responses to proposals and presentations to clients, as well as presentations to Government and regulatory authorities on behalf of clients
  • Legal Writing: Writes and files briefs and memoranda of law, prepares and files pleadings, initiates and responds to discovery petitions
  • Appeal Filing: Prepares and files appeals
  • Government Liaison: Develop and maintain a positive and effective liaison with other governmental officials and the public pertaining to legal matters
  • Meeting Attendance: Attend all meetings of the Board of Supervisors and other meetings
  • Training Delivery: Provide FOIA and COI training to all Board Members
  • Contract Review: Review and negotiate professional services agreements and other commercial contracts
  • Litigation Support: Support the General Counsel and Assistant Counsel with managing claims and litigation

2. Attorney Details

  • Litigation Management: Litigates and/or assists in litigating contested cases in administrative hearings during pre-trial and trial stages.
  • Case Strategy: Tasks include formulating case strategy, drafting legal documents (pleadings, brief, motions, memoranda), conducting discovery, appearing at hearings, arguing motions, and trying cases.
  • Rulemaking Participation: Participates and/or assists in rulemaking proceedings.
  • Regulatory Analysis: Analyzing legal, regulatory, and policy positions and preparing comments and draft administrative rules.
  • Court Representation: Represent and/or assist in representing the Office before the courts in appeals of regulatory agency decisions and orders.
  • Appellate Writing: Writing appellate briefs and preparing and participating in oral arguments before appellate courts.
  • Legal Advice: Provides legal advice and counsel to the agency.
  • Legal Research: Research points of law to support positions.
  • Legislation Interpretation: Interprets state and federal legislation and regulations.
  • Memoranda Drafting: Drafts well-reasoned and legally sound legal memoranda.
  • Professional Collaboration: Works cooperatively with others in a professional office environment.

3. Attorney Responsibilities

  • Knowledge Management: Acquires and maintains relevant knowledge necessary to perform essential job functions.
  • Attendance Compliance: Attends work regularly in compliance with agreed-upon work schedule.
  • Information Security: Ensures security and confidentiality of sensitive and/or protected information.
  • Policy Compliance: Complies with all agency policies and procedures.
  • Contract Drafting: Draft, negotiate, and review contracts for the company’s sales organization.
  • Contract Interpretation: Interpret existing contracts and advise on contract interpretation issues.
  • Contract Support: Support ongoing company-wide contracting initiatives, including policy development, template standardization and adoption of contract-related technologies.
  • Legal Summaries: Provide high-level summary memos of legal obligations as directed by Commercial Counsel.
  • Risk Management: Proactively prevent or minimize legal risk to the company and help drive legal strategy to align and achieve business strategic goals.
  • Compliance Engagement: Actively engage with all parts of the organization to maintain compliance with internal and external obligations.
  • Legal Counseling: Offering counsel on a variety of legal issues, as well as collaborating with both internal and external counsel.

4. Attorney Job Summary

  • Pleading Preparation: Work with technical staff and outside counsel to prepare pleadings and respond to discovery requests
  • Claims Reporting: Update claims and litigation reports
  • Matter Reporting: Report new matters to insurers
  • Risk Advising: Collaborate with project executives and technical managers to proactively identify, assess and advise on dispute avoidance and risk mitigation strategies
  • Compliance Assistance: Assist with the company’s insurance, risk management and compliance programs (e.g. corporate registrations, professional licensing and data privacy)
  • Governance Preparation: Prepare corporate governance documents (e.g., corporate filings and board resolutions)
  • Subpoena Management: Manage subpoenas received by the firm
  • Caseload Management: Independently manage a litigation caseload, working cases from beginning to end
  • Legal Collaboration: Work with other attorneys and partners on legal projects
  • Court Representation: Regularly handle court appearances and depositions
  • Client Communication: Communicate with clients and provide status reports
  • Billing Assistance: Timely assist with billing clients

5. Attorney Functions

  • Risk Understanding: Understand legal and business risks within contracts, operations, employment, and other areas
  • Knowledge Maintenance: Maintain knowledge of business, plans, and potential growth areas
  • Team Training: Train and inform team members on how to navigate business risks
  • Contract Negotiation: Review, edit, and negotiate all contracts
  • System Management: Create and maintain legal systems and processes that organize contracts for easy retrieval
  • Compliance Training: Facilitate any necessary contract-based compliance training for Mango employees in order to keep the company in compliance with contractual terms
  • Process Management: Create, maintain, update, and drive all legal processes
  • Policy Development: Turn laws and contracts into company policy
  • Risk Management: Manage legal risk in RFP process
  • Compliance Identification: Identify and ensure compliance related to legal risks such as data Privacy, and data Security related to GDPR, CCPA, and HR-based laws
  • Legal Collaboration: Collaborate with external Legal Specialists