Description:
Description:Position Summary/Objective
Our Senior Counsel will manage a variety of real estate related transactional and litigation/compliance matters. For this key role, experience in managing complex transactions, nationwide leasing and high profile litigation is necessary.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Risk Mitigation:
- Work closely with the company's legal team, outside counsel, and key stakeholders to manage various real estate and commercial litigation matters
- Handle and coordinate responses to demand letters, discovery requests, subpoenas, warrants, civil investigative demands, and requests from governmental agencies
- Resolve legally sensitive complaints from customers
- Negotiate and draft settlement agreements
- Conduct legal research and internal investigations
- Create and manage company policies for risk mitigation
- Oversee regulatory compliance and privacy
- Support Human Resources team regarding employment disputes, policies and procedures
- Review marketing materials for legal compliance
- Transactional:
- Draft and negotiate leases, purchase and sale agreements, closing documents, management agreements and entity documents
- Participate in due diligence review including CC&Rs, title and survey
- Draft and negotiate commercial contracts
- Support Construction team, including drafting and negotiating master services agreements and resolving lien issues
- Create and update contract templates
- Develop and implement training for company employees on legal issues and best practices
- Work closely with property management team to resolve issues
- Manage outside counsel, as needed
Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities):
- 10 years' experience in real estate, with a mix of law firm and in-house experience preferred
- Juris Doctor degree from ABA accredited law school
- Admission to and current good standing with a state bar
- Experience in single family rental or multifamily real estate
- Experience in landlord-tenant issues and regulatory compliance
- Experience with Salesforce and Yardi a plus
- Ability to collaborate with internal teams, external counsel, insurers, and other key stakeholders
- Demonstrated experience in resolving challenging legal issues and proven ability to deliver sound, clear, practical legal advice in a business setting
- Detail-oriented with excellent case analysis abilities
- Superior drafting and negotiation skills
- Ability to approach complex problems with a creative mindset
- Ability to prioritize and work with agility across multiple projects
- Ability to work both in a team and independently
