CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER (CLO)

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Chief Legal Officer (CLO) to lead the legal function for a growing, multi-state organization operating within the construction, reconstruction, restoration, mitigation, packout, abatement, demolition, and related services industries. The CLO will serve as the Company's senior legal executive and strategic legal advisor to executive leadership. This position is responsible for enterprise legal strategy, corporate governance, commercial contracting, litigation oversight, regulatory matters, mergers and acquisitions, and management of the Company's overall legal risk. This is not solely a contract-review position. The CLO will be expected to understand the Company's business model, evaluate enterprise-level exposure, provide decisive legal recommendations, and develop a scalable legal infrastructure to support continued organizational growth.

Responsibilities

The successful CLO will be more than a technical legal resource. This individual will understand the business, identify material enterprise risk, distinguish manageable operational exposure from significant legal exposure, and provide executive leadership with clear, commercially practical recommendations. The CLO will establish a scalable legal function that protects the organization without unnecessarily slowing business operations.

• Serve as the Company's senior legal advisor to executive leadership.
• Develop and execute enterprise legal strategy aligned with organizational objectives.
• Identify significant legal and regulatory exposure and provide practical recommendations to executive leadership.
• Advise leadership regarding major business decisions, organizational changes, transactions, disputes, and emerging legal risks.
• Establish legal escalation protocols, approval thresholds, and standards across the organization.
• Provide legal oversight of corporate governance and organizational structure.
• Advise regarding entity formation, acquisition, restructuring, dissolution, and multi-state qualification.
• Oversee corporate resolutions, governance documents, delegations of authority, and related legal records.
• Advise executive leadership regarding fiduciary and governance obligations.
• Provide senior legal oversight for matters arising from construction, reconstruction, restoration, mitigation, packout, abatement, demolition, and related operations.
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