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Job Overview:

As an Assistant General Counsel, you’ll be responsible for providing expert & strategic legal advice to support the growth & success of the business. This position reports to VP, Legal Affairs and General Counsel. This key leader anticipates issues, assesses risk strategically, and provides hands-on counsel to executives & business teams to address critical legal and business challenges. The Assistant General Counsel understands the tension between business realities and legal protections, effectively navigates the most difficult questions at the strategy level, and guides teams to avoid pitfalls at the operations level. The Assistant General Counsel brings a proven ability to contribute to overall profitability.

Your Responsibilities:

Guidance & Strategy

• Analyze all manner of legal & business issues, develop strategy alternatives, recommend effective courses of action, and lead the legal implementation

Litigation and Claims

• Effectively manage litigation & claims brought against FirstService, including:
  • Developing and vetting defense strategies
  • Minimizing defense spend & settlement outlays
  • Ensuring the value of insurance defense firms’ and specific attorneys’ billing & deliverables, including case analyses, litigation strategy, status updates, litigation budgets, and well-thought-out discovery, motion practice & settlement approaches
  • Managing discovery, preservation & privilege
    • Advise the business on asserting & resolving disputes

Insurance

• Protect the company by leveraging a deep understanding of insurance principles, coverage types, tendering imperatives, triggers to coverage, managing adjusters & third party administrators, and avoiding actions that may jeopardize coverage

Contracts:

• Expertly draft & edit contracts to protect FirstService while also achieving the company’s business objectives
• Successfully negotiate agreements to balance protecting FirstService’s interests with obtaining or retaining the business
• Other responsibilities as assigned

Skills & Qualifications:

• JD from an ABA accredited law school
• Member in good standing of any State Bar
• Minimum of 5 years relevant experience
• Overall broad legal knowledge (corporate law, litigation, etc.)
• Ability to develop legal strategy & objectives
• Impeccable professional ethics & integrity
• Ability to anticipate legal issues or risks and to ‘see around the corner’
• Creative problem-solving ability & excellent analytic skills
• The ability to apply sound business & legal judgment to a wide variety of legal questions
• Extraordinary interpersonal and communication skills; ability to communicate information effectively internally and externally – whether on the fly or with prepared communications - and to drive cross-functional alignment and action
• High degree of initiative; growth-minded & collaborative
• Execution-oriented mindset with the drive to get things done
• Able to work under tight deadlines, handle multiple, detailed projects simultaneously and anticipate needs in advance
• Fluent with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Windows; Ability to learn new applications and skills quickly

What We Offer:

As a full-time exempt associate, you will be eligible for full comprehensive benefits to include your choice of multiple medical plans, dental, and vision. In addition, you will be eligible for time off benefits, paid holidays and a 401k with company match.

Disclaimer Statement:

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. This is not an all-inclusive job description; therefore, management has the right to assign or reassign schedules, duties, and responsibilities to this job at any time.