In house legal counsel

BCL Legal In-House; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled in-house legal counsel to join their sizeable legal team. This role offers a dynamic and varied workload, focusing on drafting and negotiating a range of high-value contracts. With opportunities for professional growth and support from experienced colleagues, this position is perfect for those with 2-5 years of PQE in commercial law. If you're ready to take on complex legal challenges in a fast-growing sector, this is the ideal opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years PQE with a focus on commercial contracts.
• Experience in drafting and negotiating complex agreements.

Responsibilities

• Draft and negotiate B2B and B2C contracts.
• Advise on complex supplier contracts and service agreements.

Skills

Commercial Contracts

Negotiation Skills

Legal Drafting

B2B Agreements

B2C Agreements

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Job description

THE BUSINESS

Our client is a Leeds headquartered, well established, technology backed business, which is operating in a fast growing sector. It has turnover in the many hundreds of millions of pounds, is seen as a leader in its sector, and has been involved in high profile operations in the past few years. The business is now looking to hire additional in house legal counsel

THE ROLE

Joining an sizeable legal team, you will undertake a diverse and interesting role, drafting, negotiating and advising on a range of B2B and B2C contracts. These might be high value and complex (bespoke commercial agreements such as negotiating and advising on complex and high value supplier contracts, IT and software agreements, distribution agreements and service contracts), or more run of the mill work on lower value terms and conditions, or NDA's. In short, an interesting and varied in house role, where no two days are the same. You'll work within the larger legal team and alongside other commercial lawyers, so you'll benefit from support and guidance, but be encouraged to take on complex work where appropriate.

ABOUT YOU

The legal team is sizeable and as such offers support and continuing career development to lawyers at the early stages of their career. You'll probably have at least 2-5 years pqe to have the experience required, and commercial contracts experience is sought after. However, if you experience from a different area of law (corporate, commercial litigation, corporate recovery etc) and are passionate about a move in house, then I'd like to discuss further with you. This is an opportunity to move to an interesting and growing business and take on a diverse in house counsel interesting legal role.


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