Description:
Job Summary:An Investment Company Corporate Attorney I will identify legal issues, support contractual and regulatory compliance, and provide advisory and guidance across departments, the company, and its lines of business. Day-to-day tasks include in-depth legal research and analysis, reviewing legal documentation, making recommendations, and serving as the point of contact with external legal counsel to deal with claims as they arise.
Essential Functions:
- Reviewing and analyzing contracts, long and short agreements, negotiations, NDAs, internal and external policies, and other legal documentation.
- Conducting in-depth legal research and analysis, reviewing legal regulations, dissecting critical points and preparing memorandums for management.
- Identifying legal issues, preparing issues list and contractual checklist for agreements, creating redlines, and making suggestions to management and external counsel.
- Ensuring that the company and its lines of business legal documentation remain in compliance with regulatory mandates, laws, and permits.
- Interfacing with external counsel, and serving as point of contact for legal claims.
- Protecting the organization's rights in contract negotiations, hearings, settlements, and litigation
- Providing legal advice and services on issues concerning the rights, obligations, and privileges of the organization.
- Performing other duties as needed.
Job Requirements:
- Excellent legal analysis, writing, and editing skills, attention to detail, planning and organizing skills, and complete multiple tasks of varying complexity.
- Ability to express, orally and in writing, complex legal issues in clear and succinct language.
- Proficient in MS Office and Mac applications.
- Ability to use software applications to conduct legal research and document preparation.
- Team player, conscientious, self-starter, unafraid of criticism.
Education and Experience:
- JD and licensed to practice law in the state of Minnesota.
- 3+ years of in-house legal experience preferred.
