Corporate Legal Counsel
Corporate Counsel
The Corporate Counsel will be responsible for managing legal risks, overseeing contract negotiation, educating the team on regulatory compliance, and aligning legal strategy with business objectives. This is a new role to support a growing and diverse technology and e-commerce company.
Key Responsibilities:
Legal Strategy & Compliance:
- Maintaining and advancing legal frameworks and policies for operations in alignment with corporate strategy.
- Translating complex legal and regulatory issues into practical guidance for cross-functional teams.
- Advising and collaborating on developing new processes, identifying and mitigating legal issues, and assisting in crafting solutions to protect the company's interests.
- Advising and educating management and coworkers on a variety of legal issues relating to general corporate matters, including corporate governance, risk management, finance, banking, branding, vendor contracting, real estate and facilities, intellectual property, information technology, employment, and dealer regulations.
- Providing legal support for various corporate service areas, such as marketing, communications, finance, privacy, risk management, and accounting.
- Ensuring corporate knowledge of compliance regulations for local, state, and federal laws across consumer protection, state and federal privacy regulations, state licensing regulations, and corporate governance.
Contracts, Agreements, and Intellectual Property:
- Accurately and efficiently negotiating, analyzing, drafting, reviewing, and managing a broad range of commercial contracts and agreements including licenses, joint ventures, contracts, policies, procedures, confidentiality agreements, employment, internal protocols, and litigation-related documents.
- Providing legal support during negotiations with vendors, landlords, affiliates, and governmental entities.
- Managing independent contractor processes, including drafting agreements and procedures.
- Managing, expanding, protecting, maintaining, and defending all aspects of intellectual property.
Risk Management:
- Identifying legal risks and recommending proactive solutions to mitigate exposure in new and existing processes.
- Educating executive team and coworkers on data privacy, corporate policies, and labor laws.
- Supporting due diligence on expansion, partnerships, and strategic investments.
- Identifying and analyzing new or emerging areas of risk and managing or providing support with respect to general legal matters.
Monitor Legal and Compliance Landscape:
- Proactively researching new legal developments in consumer products and services delivery, data privacy, cybersecurity, and employment law to ensure continued compliance.
Identify and manage legal and regulatory risk across new and existing product areas, offering actionable guidance to drive product and business goals forward.
- Providing guidance on complex regulatory questions in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
- Ensuring compliance with governmental trade regulations, sanctions, and other limitations.
Dispute Resolution, Litigation, and Litigation Management:
- Counseling employees and contractors on solutions to customer complaints.
- Researching and responding to escalated customer complaints and complaints to regulatory and consumer entities
- Litigating and arbitrating matters, both offensively and defensively, when economically prudent.
- Finding, retaining, managing, and directing outside counsel, or other third-party consultants, in managing litigation (e.g., employment, workers' compensation, and other legal conflicts), when needed, to maximize a high level of representation for the company while managing legal expenses.
Corporate Governance:
- Assisting in obtaining and maintaining licensing at both the state and federal levels.
- Establishing the formation of new entities, maintaining current entities, and drafting operating agreements and resolutions.
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