Sr Commercial Attorney

About the role

The Senior Commercial Attorney will be working closely with our customer's in-house legal department and their internal business partners. The attorney will review, redline and negotiate contracts and participate on projects to improve our customer's contractual infrastructure, workflow, and processes.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, redline, negotiate various customer and third-party contracts and other transactional documents.
• Review contracts against established standards and negotiate acceptable alternatives, working from templates and tools that will be available to you.
• Compare contracts and highlight differences and similarities in template formats.
• Facilitate escalation of unresolved issues, approval and signature.
• Update or draft playbooks and templates, as needed.
• Research and analyze areas of commercial law as relevant to the customer’s business and prospects and prepare position statements for different audiences.
• Quickly understand term positions and fallbacks in a provided playbook, learn how to use CLM tools and adapt to new processes.

Requirements

• Experience: 6-10 years of experience with commercial transactional support, including drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts, particularly services and supply agreements, software license and SaaS agreements, procurement and other inbound agreements.
• Legal Research: Experience conducting simple to complex legal research and memorandum drafting.
• Track Record: Excellent track record in previous client support/customer service engagements.
• Software Licenses: Prior proven experience in independently negotiating and finalizing Software License Agreements and SaaS Agreements.

Skills for Success

• Customer-Centric: Proven ability to work in a customer-centric, deadline driven and fast paced environment.
• Risk Assessment: Able to assess risk with contractual terms, so you understand when a term needs to be escalated or requires additional approvals, as it is beyond the guidelines agreed to with the customer.
• Remote Work: Work effectively from a home office or remote work environment.
• Team Player: Dependable, responsive, and committed to producing high quality work. Flexible team player, and willing to pitch in on matters and projects to better serve our customers, even if the work falls outside your normal scope of duties.
• Communication: Excellent writing, redlining and verbal communication skills, particularly depicting complex ideas clearly and concisely. Excellent listening and communication skills and the judgment to know which skill to use in each setting.
• Independence: Ability to work independently, and collaboratively with teammates across multiple geographies.

Technical Skills

• MS Office: Excellent MS Office skills - capable of preparing PowerPoint, Word, and Excel files without support.
• CLM Software: Proficient in using CLM software.

Qualifications

• JD required.
• Must be barred in the same state as residence.

Pay

US national salary range: $120,000-130,000, based on job-related skills, experience, level, and location. In addition, Elevate offers full-time employees a comprehensive benefits package and PTO.

Company Information

Elevate is a law company. We provide software and services for the intersection of business and law. Our legal, business, and technology professionals offer practical ways for global law departments and law firms to improve efficiency, quality, and business outcomes.