South Carolina Real Estate & Litigation Attorney, Independent Counsel (Remote)

About the role

Blue Peak is seeking an entrepreneurial South Carolina attorney to serve as Independent Counsel through a law practice the attorney independently owns or manages. This is a long-term, high-trust legal-services relationship between Blue Peak and an independent law practice.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal advice on active matters.
• Advise the client entity on acquisitions, distressed and off-market transactions, deeds, notices, title or ownership issues, transaction documents, foreclosure-related matters, and other issues within scope.
• Handle or coordinate dispute and court-facing work.
• Assess legal risk; prepare or manage filings, correspondence, hearings, and time-sensitive matters; travel across South Carolina when court, closing, property, or in-person requirements call for counsel's presence.
• Support transaction execution.
• Carefully coordinate with closing attorneys, title parties, courts, notaries, counterparties, and specialists so legal issues, missing documents, and decision points are identified early.
• Build practical legal processes.
• Recommend and develop matter-intake standards, templates, checklists, document controls, escalation rules, and legal-status reporting.
• Identify the need for specialist support.
• Determine when a matter falls outside scope or requires specialist counsel or title professionals, and coordinate any approved involvement.
• Maintain appropriate legal-service boundaries.
• Protect client confidentiality, preserve privilege, manage conflicts, and keep legal advice separate from business coordination.
• Represent Blue Peak only.
• Do not advise, represent, or prepare documents for heirs, sellers, or other counterparties, who may obtain independent counsel or execute appropriate disclosures.

Requirements

You are a South Carolina attorney in good standing with approximately 3-5 years of progressively responsible legal experience, comfortable managing deadlines, writing clearly, and exercising sound judgment with incomplete facts.

• Your background may be in employment law, personal injury, civil litigation, creditor-side work, commercial disputes, foreclosure, title, real estate, or a comparable practice.
• If your practice area is transferable, you must be prepared to build subject-matter competence deliberately and engage specialist counsel where needed.
• You are litigation-capable: you can manage filings, hearings, disputes, and court and opposing-party communications, and you can distinguish a true legal risk from a noisy issue and explain that difference in plain English.
• You have personally owned a difficult matter or process problem from start to finish, and you are entrepreneurial enough to improve a process rather than accept recurring confusion.
• You are comfortable using technology, documentation, and automation to improve legal work, and understand that confidential client information and AI-enabled tools require thoughtful access, retention, vendor, confidentiality, privilege, and human-review controls.
• You work well directly with a founder and operating team, communicate legal advice without jargon, and stay calm when several moving parts need attention at once.
• If you have worked the creditor side in foreclosure, collections, or bank-side litigation, you will recognize most of this work from the other direction.

Qualifications

Judgment, litigation ability, writing, learning agility, professional maturity, and high agency matter more. This is not a fit for an attorney who wants a conventional in-house role, expects equity, is unwilling to travel within South Carolina, or prefers a narrow routine-closing practice. It also requires prioritized, responsive capacity for the agreed term, subject to conflicts, professional responsibilities, and the final agreement.

Skills

Sound judgment, strong writing, comfort with litigation-related work, the ability to learn quickly, and a genuine interest in complex real-estate matters.

Benefits

No legal department to route through and no committee to wait on; decisions get made the same day. The work is one client, one area of law, and a defined set of repeating matter types, so you build a process instead of starting from scratch each file. No billable hour targets, no scattered caseload, and a predictable pace to plan around.

Pay

$100,000–$125,000 expected total annual value (USD), a base engagement fee plus per-matter fees for litigation, hearings, closings, and other defined work, scaling with deal volume and experience.

Schedule

Travel: As needed, across counties, for hearings, closings, property matters, and in-person meetings.

Working relationship

An independent South Carolina counsel to Blue Peak under a defined legal-services agreement between the attorney's firm and the Blue Peak operating entity.

Client relationship

A Blue Peak South Carolina operating entity will be the attorney's client for a defined scope of work, with substantial and ongoing matter flow.