Corporate Counsel

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, negotiate, and manage a variety of commercial agreements, including property management agreements, non-disclosure agreements, master service agreements, construction-related agreements, amendments, assignments, and other commercial contracts.
• Provide practical legal guidance to internal stakeholders regarding contractual rights and obligations, commercial relationships, operational issues, and other day-to-day legal matters, with support from senior attorneys as appropriate.
• Review and analyze contracts and other legal documents provided by clients, owners, vendors, and other third parties, and clearly communicate material terms, obligations, risks, and recommended actions.
• Support the management of litigation, pre-litigation disputes, regulatory inquiries, investigations, and other contested matters, including coordinating with outside counsel, gathering information and documents, conducting legal research, and assisting with matter strategy and resolution.
• Support corporate governance and entity management matters, including preparation of corporate documents and approvals, maintenance of corporate records, entity formations and qualifications, and other organizational matters.
• Aid in the development, maintenance, and continuous improvement of contract templates, legal forms, playbooks, knowledge resources, workflows, and other Legal Department processes.
• Assist with the coordination, tracking, and timely completion of contracts, legal requests, projects, and other matters assigned to the Legal Department.
• Participate in special projects and other legal, transactional, compliance, governance, employment, insurance, and risk management matters as needed.

Qualifications

• Education: Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an accredited U.S. law school.
• Licenses: Licensed to practice law and in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• Experience: Three or more years of relevant legal experience as an attorney in a law firm, corporate legal department, or comparable environment.
• Industry Knowledge: Experience working with real estate, property management, multifamily housing, or a related industry is preferred but not required.
• Skills: Knowledge of fundamental commercial contract principles, strong legal research, analytical, and problem-solving skills, strong drafting and contract-review skills with excellent attention to detail, ability to understand business objectives and provide legal advice that appropriately considers legal risk, operational needs, and commercial realities, ability to distinguish routine matters from issues requiring additional analysis, escalation, or involvement of senior attorneys, excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong organizational, project management, and time-management skills, ability to work independently on assigned matters while collaborating effectively with attorneys, business partners, and cross-functional teams, sound judgment, intellectual curiosity, initiative, and a demonstrated willingness to learn new areas of law and take on increasing responsibility, ability to build productive working relationships and provide responsive, service-oriented support to internal business partners, ability to maintain the highest standards of integrity, professionalism, discretion, and confidentiality, proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and Adobe Acrobat.