Associate General Counsel

Regional Transportation District - Denver; Bentonville (AR); On-site; USD 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Regional Transportation District (RTD) seeks an in-house lawyer to support the organization in transactions, litigation, and regulatory compliance. The role provides counsel to internal departments and the Board of Directors, drafting and negotiating contracts, real estate documents, and funding agreements.

You will handle diverse matters including civil rights, employment, and public finance, with supervision of outside counsel as needed.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctorate from an accredited law school.
• Minimum of four years of legal practice after bar admission.
• Experience in transactional matters and/or litigation for a public or government-related entity.

Responsibilities

• Develop and represent the organization’s legal positions across transactions, litigation, and compliance areas.
• Provide general counsel support to internal departments and the Board of Directors.
• Draft, review, and negotiate contracts, real estate documents, and government funding agreements.
• Manage litigation including hearings, motions, and coordination with outside counsel.
• Advise on compliance areas such as PUC, federal regulatory requirements, labor relations, and governance.
• Supervise outside legal counsel retained by the organization.

Skills

Legal advisory

Contract drafting

Litigation management

Regulatory compliance

Governance & policy

Education

Juris Doctorate

Job description

At Regional Transportation District (RTD), We make lives better through connections!

When you join RTD, you will be among dedicated employees exhibiting RTD's values of passion, respect, diversity, trustworthiness, collaboration, and ownership. RTD is committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of our diversity value statement, we encourage our employees to honor diversity in thought, people, and experience. Come join RTD on this great journey to be the trusted leader in mobility, delivering excellence and value to our customers and community.

RTD Employee Benefits: https://www.rtd-denver.com/careers/benefits

(RTD Represented Employee Benefits: Please refer to the Labor Agreement included in the above link for details.)

Performs general legal services for the organization in the area of transactions or litigation as well as specialization in one or more legal compliance areas such as PUC (Public Utilities Commission) and federal regulatory compliance (Federal Transit Administration/Federal Railroad Administration), civil rights, employment, labor relations, public finance, procurement, public entity representation and governance, data privacy, real estate, construction, and public safety.

Duties & Responsibilities:

ESSENTIAL:

• Performs all aspects of legal services in one or more assigned areas of legal specialization (transactions, litigation, compliance) and is primarily responsible for developing and representing the organization’s legal positions in such areas.
• Provides general counsel support, advice and advocacy for internal departments, divisions and the Board of Directors.
• Handles all aspects of transactional matters including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a variety of contracts, easements, leases and other real estate acquisition documents, governmental agreements for funding of joint projects, construction, utility relocation and environmental studies, and documents for joint development of transportation projects with local jurisdictions and private developers.
• Handles all aspects litigation in connection with a wide variety of claims including personal injury and property damage litigation, employment litigation, administrative hearings (PUC, labor, workers’ compensation, civil rights, and others), labor arbitrations, contract claims, subrogation claims, collection matters; handles all related document collection, review and production, witness preparation, discovery, depositions, legal motions and briefs, and represents the organization in hearings, trials and arbitration proceedings.
• Provides advice in one or more specialized legal compliance area such as PUC (Public Utilities Commission) and federal regulatory compliance (FTA/FRA), civil rights, employment, labor relations, public finance, procurement, public entity representation and governance, data privacy, real estate, construction, and public safety.
• Supervises and coordinates the activities of outside legal counsel retained by the organization.

OTHER:

All job-related duties as assigned.

WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

The work environment and physical demands described here are representative of those required by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job with or without reasonable accommodations.

• The work environment is a typical office environment with minimal exposure to excessive noise or adverse environmental issues.

Qualifications:

• Juris Doctorate from an accredited law school; current membership in the Colorado Bar (or eligibility to apply for admission “On Motion” or by UBE Score Transfer pursuant to C.R.C.P. 203.2(1) or 203.3).
• A minimum of four years of experience in the practice of law after admittance to the bar. Individual recruitments may require experience in one or more particular fields of legal specialization as set forth above to satisfy the anticipated needs for in-house legal representation, including transactional and/or trial/hearing experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience representing government entities as in-house counsel, experience in labor and employment, litigation, or government contracting