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Senior Business Advisory & Transactional Attorney- General Business Advisory

Jimerson Birr · Jacksonville, FL · 1 mo ago
HybridFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate like EEO, etc. Must preserve all substantive info. We need to parse the posting. First, heading: Department: Jimerson Birr Location: Jacksonville, Florida. That's metadata; we can put in a short

. Then Description paragraph: "At Jimerson Birr, our team accepts the lasting responsibility..." We'll put as

. Then "About The Role" heading: we need

About The Role

then content. Then sections: "What You'll Do" (Responsibilities). "What You'll Bring" (Requirements/Qualifications). "Preferred Qualifications" maybe separate? Could be Qualifications. Also "Why Join Jimerson Birr?" maybe Benefits? It includes competitive compensation, professional development, supportive work environment, etc. That's benefits. Also mention awards etc. Could be Benefits. Pay and Schedule: not mentioned; so we should NOT include Pay or Schedule sections. Skills: maybe we can extract from "What You'll Bring" includes precision drafting, comfort communicating, ability to work inside structured system, sound triage judgment, comfort delegating. Those are skills. Could be a Skills section. But we need to avoid thin sections. Let's decide: We'll have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits. Possibly combine Requirements and Qualifications? The instruction says use headings for those categories if content exists. We have both "What You'll Bring" (requirements) and "Preferred Qualifications". So we can have Requirements (mandatory) and Qualifications (preferred). Skills could be extracted from both. But we must not create sections with filler. Ensure each section has substantive content. Let's extract content. Metadata: Department: Jimerson Birr Location: Jacksonville, Florida. We'll put

Department: Jimerson Birr • Location: Jacksonville, Florida

maybe. Description paragraph: first paragraph after Description heading? Actually there is "Description" then a paragraph. We'll include that as

. Now About The Role: we have a paragraph after that heading: "Jimerson Birr is seeking a Senior Business Advisory & Transactions Attorney for our General Business Advisory team. The Senior Attorney will serve as day-to-day counsel to business clients: handling the regulatory, employment, intellectual property, and commercial questions that come up constantly and cannot wait for a quarterly review. This is advisory work with real breadth. In a given week you might clear a trademark, review a vendor’s security addendum, walk a client through a separation, respond to an agency audit, and turn a contract around in a day. You move fast without getting sloppy, and you know which of those five things actually carries risk. The part that distinguishes this seat: you build things that keep working after you leave the room. A compliance program with real policies, training, and an audit cadence. A trade secret hygiene protocol tied to onboarding and offboarding. An incident response playbook a client can actually run at 2 a.m. Much of this work is framework-building, and the clients who value it most are the ones who keep you close! At JB, “great lawyering” isn’t defined by hours worked. It is measured by execution against the plan, disciplined delivery, and visible progress and backed by systems that create clarity, consistency, and client trust. That structure exists to remove friction. The attorneys who thrive here treat it as leverage and then make it better." We'll put that in

maybe multiple paragraphs but can be one. Then "You’ll Know This Is The Right Seat If › ..." That's more about role fit; could be part of About the role or maybe separate? Could be considered part of About the role as well. We'll include as

  • items. Then "What You’ll Do" heading (though not in original but we can treat as Responsibilities). We'll create

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    and list bullet points from that section. Then "What You'll Bring" heading -> Requirements (mandatory). We'll list bullet points. Then "Preferred Qualifications" heading -> Qualifications (preferred). We'll list bullet points. Then "Why Join Jimerson Birr?" -> Benefits. We'll list bullet points. We need to avoid repeating content. Ensure we capture all substantive info. Let's extract bullet points. From "You’ll Know This Is The Right Seat If ›": - You would rather build the policy that prevents the problem than bill the hours cleaning it up. - You are precise by instinct: you catch the defined term that doesn’t match and the filing deadline nobody calendared. - You want variety without chaos: many matters, clear plans, defensible priorities. - You want to own the client relationship, not hand it up the chain. - You want feedback that is direct, specific, and grounded in evidence. We'll put these as
    • under About the role maybe? But we already have About the role section; we could include them there as a list. However the instruction: use

      for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So About the role is a heading; we can have paragraphs and maybe a list inside. That's fine. Now Responsibilities: from "What You’ll Do Own the Work" bullet points (starting with "Own the Work › Serve as on-call counsel..." etc). Also there is "Build the Program and the System" and "Deepen the Client Relationship". We'll combine all bullet points under Responsibilities. Let's extract each bullet: Under "Own the Work ›": - Serve as on-call counsel to business clients: fast-turn contract review and negotiation, vendor risk and security addenda, dispute prevention, demand letters, and the judgment calls that surface between larger projects. Your Team Leader sets matter mix and priorities; you run the legal execution. - Handle regulatory compliance and licensing across regulated industries: compliance reviews and filings, state and local business and professional licensing, license transfers, and defense of complaints, investigations, and disciplinary actions. - Respond to agency investigations and audits, and advise on workplace safety and OSHA compliance, advertising and marketing review in regulated industries, government procurement, bid protests, and economic development incentives. - Advise on employment matters: handbooks and policy suites, employment and independent contractor agreements, restrictive covenants and confidentiality terms, discipline, separations, releases, restructuring, and support for workplace investigations. - Protect the brand: trademark strategy, clearance screening, and USPTO filings; brand use guidelines and policing; pre-litigation cease-and-desist work; copyright assignments, work-for-hire terms, and licensing; and domain name disputes. - Serve as the primary client contact on most of your matters, with the judgment to escalate when risk, budget, or strategy shifts. Under "Build the Program and the System ›": - Build durable programs, not one-off answers. Compliance program design with policies, training, and audit cadence; trade secret and confidentiality controls; operational legal audits across contracts, compliance, and HR; policy and process mapping; codes of conduct and conflicts policies; data privacy and cybersecurity incident response playbooks. - Mentor junior attorneys and paralegals. Delegate real work, then follow up with instruction and feedback that actually moves someone forward. - Improve the machine. Bring at least one concrete improvement a week to our matter plans, clause libraries, templates, technology, or legal products. Shaping the system is part of the job here, not a side project. - Hold the line on timekeeping, service commitments, budgets, and on-plan execution — in your own work and in what you delegate. Under "Deepen the Client Relationship ›": - Spot what’s next. Identify and document adjacent legal needs as you work; in advisory work you see the whole business, which means you see the problems before the client names them. - Run disciplined alignment conversations at the start of a matter and throughout, so scope, timeline, and expectations never drift. - Stay in front of your clients with proactive outreach that isn’t tied to an open matter, and support pitches and cross-selling as those relationships develop. Now Requirements (What You'll Bring): - JD and an active Florida Bar license. - 5+ years of business advisory, regulatory and compliance, employment, or intellectual property practice. - A track record of managing matters independently: budget discipline, accurate scoping, and reliable delivery without daily supervision. - Precision drafting: clean documents, consistent defined terms, and no loose ends. - Comfort communicating directly with clients, counterparties, agencies, and regulators. - The ability to work inside a structured system, and the instinct to improve it rather than route around it. - Sound triage judgment: you can tell a five-minute question from a five-figure risk. - Comfort delegating real work and following up on it. Preferred Qualifications: - Administrative law or licensing practice before state or local agencies. - USPTO trademark prosecution experience. - Employment counseling experience on the advisory side, not primarily litigation. - Depth in a regulated industry: construction, healthcare, financial services, or similar. - Experience building a compliance program from scratch rather than maintaining one. - Georgia Bar admission or willingness to seek it. Benefits (Why Join Jimerson Birr?): - Competitive compensation. - Professional development opportunities. - Supportive work environment dedicated to fostering your success. - Atmosphere and award-winning firm culture collegial and professional. - Shared commitment to professional development superior to contemporaries. - Challenging opportunity with a company that cares about its most valuable asset: YOU. - Pride in people and collective achievements. - Recognitions: Florida’s “Best Companies to Work For” by Florida Trend Magazine (2021 and seventh consecutive year). - Distinguished as one of the “Best Places to Work” by the Jacksonville Business Journal. - Five times as one of the “50 Fastest Growing Companies.” - Opportunities for those who can meet and exceed expectations. - Core values: Commitment to service; Commitment to quality; Commitment to results. We should not include EEO boilerplate etc. Now we need to output HTML fragment only, no or . Use

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        About the role

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        Skills

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        Benefits

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