Senior Counsel, Business Advisory & Transactions

Jimerson Birr; Jacksonville (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jimerson Birr in Jacksonville, FL is seeking a Senior Business Advisory & Transactions Attorney for our General Business Advisory team. The Senior Attorney will serve as day-to-day counsel to business clients: handling regulatory, employment, intellectual property, and commercial questions that come up constantly and cannot wait for a quarterly review.

This is advisory work with real breadth—building compliance programs, mentoring junior staff, and delivering structured solutions while moving

Qualifications

• JD and an active Florida Bar license.
• 5+ years of business advisory, regulatory and compliance, employment, or intellectual property practice.
• A track record of managing matters independently: budget discipline, accurate scoping, and reliable delivery without daily supervision.
• Precision drafting: clean documents, consistent defined terms, and no loose ends.
• Comfort communicating directly with clients, counterparties, agencies, and regulators.
• The ability to work inside a structured system, and the instinct to improve it.
• Sound triage judgment: you can tell a five‑minute question from a five‑figure risk.
• Comfort delegating real work and following up on it.

Responsibilities

• Serve as on-call counsel to business clients: fast-turn contract review and negotiation, vendor risk and security addenda, dispute prevention, demand letters, and the judgment calls that surface between larger projects.
• Handle regulatory compliance and licensing across regulated industries: compliance reviews and filings, state and local business and professional licensing, license transfers, and defense of complaints, investigations, and disciplinary actions.
• Respond to agency investigations and audits, and advise on workplace safety and OSHA compliance, advertising and marketing review in regulated industries, government procurement, bid protests, and economic development incentives.
• Advise on employment matters: handbooks and policy suites, employment and independent contractor agreements, restrictive covenants and confidentiality terms, discipline, separations, releases, restructuring, and support for workplace investigations.
• Protect the brand: trademark strategy, clearance screening, and USPTO filings; brand use guidelines and policing; pre‑litigation cease‑and‑desist work; copyright assignments, work‑for‑hire terms, and licensing; and domain name disputes.
• Serve as the primary client contact on most of your matters, with the judgment to elevate when risk, budget, or strategy shifts.

Skills

Precision drafting

Client communication

Structured work style

Triage judgment

Delegation

Education

JD and Florida Bar license

Job description

Jimerson Birr in Jacksonville, FL is seeking a Senior Business Advisory & Transactions Attorney for our General Business Advisory team. The Senior Attorney will serve as day-to-day counsel to business clients: handling regulatory, employment, intellectual property, and commercial questions that come up constantly and cannot wait for a quarterly review.

This is advisory work with real breadth—building compliance programs, mentoring junior staff, and delivering structured solutions while moving