Lawyer

This is a position within the Legal Department that is held by a lawyer with strong legal skills and the ability to deliver business-oriented, effective and efficient legal services, project management, and strategic counseling on significant projects or matters for defined business or corporate clients for which he or she has overall responsibility (e.g., a discrete group within one of clients 's business units or corporate functions) or in a particular specialty practice area (e.g., litigation, mergers and acquisitions, securities law, privacy law, health law, technology law, or employment and labor law).

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

The lawyer in this role is expected to have a minimum of 9 years of experience as a lawyer combined with expertise in one or more specialty areas of legal practice (e.g., litigation, antitrust, mergers and acquisitions, contracts and commercial law, securities law, privacy law, health law, technology law, or employment and labor law).

Law Degree - must be a graduate of an accredited law school and admitted into the state bar.

The lawyer in this role is comparable to a counsel, non-equity partner, or service partner in a law firm and is a lawyer who can do sophisticated work as an individual contributor and/or supervise and project manage other individual legal professionals or teams of legal professionals to do the work.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

The lawyer in this role is responsible for the delivery of effective legal services to his or her clients.

The lawyerin this role may have management responsibility for one or more legal professionals and, if so, is required to be an effective manager of his or her reports.

In this role, the lawyer is required to be adep tat handling significant legal projects, matters, and issues and should have very good to excellent technical legal skills and expertise.

The lawyer in this role should have very good to excellent project management skills because the Assistant General Counsel role often requires the lawyer in this role to take on mixedl egal and businessr esponsibility for, and project management of, contracts or other matters that the client group wants to pursue.

The Assistant General Counsel should be able to represent Client and his or her relevant client groups on significant business contracts or other matters.The Assistant General Counsel frequently is required in these situations to lead or have an integral role in both legal and business negotiations.

The Assistant General Counsel shouldhave strong decision-making capability and shouldbe proficient in being able to make business-oriented yet legally compliant recommendations to his or her clients

The Assistant General Counsel is expected to solve both straightforward and complex problems and take a new perspective on existing solutions.

The lawyer in this role should be able to juggle multiple matters and effectively multi-task and prioritize tasks to ensure that work is completed in a timely and efficient matter.

The Assistant General Counsel will effectively work in the midst of change and is willingto shift priorities and focus.

The lawyer in this role will seek out challenging tasks and assignments, engage in frequent development discussions and is open to feedback.

MINIMUM SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITY REQUIREMENTS:

Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices and legal procedures

Working knowledge of corporate law including SEC regulations and document preparation, litigation, anti- trust laws, nuisance law, court and regulatory agency (FTC and FDA) procedures, and contract negotiation and preparation

The lawyer in this role has the expertise and background to be comfortable supervising outside lawyers engaged to work on matters for Client, including outside lawyers from major law firms used by Client.

In this role, the lawyer is expected to be knowledgeable in ABC's business and industry policies, practices and trends and be aware of the competitive landscape.

Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals

Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing

The Assistant General Counsel will demonstrate very good to excellent communication and information sharing with all levels of associates.

Strong interpersonal skills

Strong creativity skills

Excellent judgment and ability to resolve complex issues effectively

Strong negotiating skills

Strong leadership skills

Strong presentation skills

Strong organizational skills; attention to detail

Ability to follow and interpret legal trends

Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint