Real Estate Counsel

Why You’ll Love Working at BJ’s

• Weekly Pay: Get paid every week so that you can manage your money on your terms.
• Free BJ’s Memberships: Enjoy a complimentary The Club Card Membership, plus a free Supplemental Membership for someone in your household.
• Generous Paid Time Off: Take the time you need with vacation, personal, sick days, holidays, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
• Flexible and Affordable Health Benefits: Choose from three medical plans, and access optional dental, vision, Health Savings Account (HSA), and flexible spending account options to fit your lifestyle.
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan: Build your financial future with a company match (available to team members 18 and older).
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Accumulate funds through after-tax payroll deductions that can be used to purchase shares of BJ’s common stock at a 15% discount.

Real Estate Counsel

• Serve as real estate leasing and transaction counsel concerning retail locations, distribution centers, gas stations, and other company locations.
• Negotiate and draft leases, purchase and sale agreements, and various other commercial real estate documents, including lease amendments, ground leases, condominium documents, development agreements, reciprocal easement agreements, construction agreements, subleases, SNDAs, estoppel certificates, letter agreements, and default notices.
• Provide prompt legal guidance to various in-house clients (including property development, construction, operations, finance, and risk) regarding lease and easement provisions, operational issues, violations, signage, construction issues, access agreements, landlord/tenant disputes, and repair and maintenance issues.
• Conduct legal diligence for new locations, including analyzing title and survey and identifying potential environmental risk and liability.
• Work with and manage outside counsel as necessary.
• Aid in management of real estate related litigation and dispute resolution.
• Aid in updating the Company’s real estate documents and forms and legal processes.
• Aid local land use counsel with respect to zoning, permitting, incentives, and similar matters.

Qualifications

• 4-7 years of real estate law experience at an AmLaw 100 firm and/or in-house environment, preferably with retail industry experience.
• Bachelor's degree from a top college or university; J.D. from a top college or university.
• Demonstrated experience as real estate deal counsel, particularly as developer-side counsel on development deals, preferably with some or all such experience on behalf of retail organization(s).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Flexible and willing to pitch in wherever new issues arise.
• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks and projects with limited supervision.
• Team player with a sense of humor.

Licenses and Certifications

• Admitted to MA bar association, or eligible to practice pursuant to MA SJC Rule 4:02 (9).