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A leading aerospace company is seeking an experience Litigation Counsel on a full-time (40 hours per week) long-term (14 months) contract basis. This is a w2 position through Legal.io with available Health, Vision, Dental, and 401k benefits.

Scope of Work

• Title: Litigation Counsel (Secondment)
• Experience: 10+ Years
• Location: Remote
• Hours: 40 Hours / Week
• Duration: 14 Months (From 10/1/2024 until 12/23/2025)
• Pay Rate: $110 - $135 / hr

Job description:

• Manage and lead litigation and arbitration matters, with a focus on government contracts protests and claims involving government customers and suppliers
• Oversee international disputes and manage international arbitration cases.
• Develop and implement strategies for resolving complex legal issues while maintaining good business and political acumen.
• Ensure compliance with all legal standards and regulations, particularly those related to government contracts.
• Provide counseling to business lawyers and management on the resolution of pre-litigation disputes.

Role:

• Be able to integrate with company as if part of in-house team
• Manage/interact with Outside Counsel • Help manage a wide variety of litigation and dispute resolution matters
• Government contract protests (not too many of those, but generally 2-3 annually. Often go forward with one annually.)
• Cases where the Government is the customer and disagreement over performance of the contract, or nonpayment, or changes to the contract.
• Supplier disputes
• international arbitration.
• All of the cases will have Outside Counsel support, but the company needs someone to take an active strategic role in directing the strategy of the cases.
• Role will not be in court often; no L&E litigation

Qualifications:

• Member of a state bar in good standing
• Strong litigation strategy skills Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an accredited law school.
• Over 10 years of litigation experience, with a strong background in government contracts, compliance, and global trade matters (TAR and EAR) matters.
• Proven track record in managing government contracts protests and claims. • Experience in civil commercial litigation.
• Familiarity with international arbitration and dispute resolution.
• Strong ability to counsel business lawyers and management on pre-litigation disputes.
• Excellent business and political acumen.
• Strong analytical, negotiation, and communication skills.
• Excellent writing, drafting, and interpretation skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to interact effectively, collegially, and collaboratively in a team environment with multiple levels of the organization.
• Well-organized, with strong project management skills and the ability to prioritize and manage a high-volume workload (multiple projects at once) and drive issues to timely conclusion, provide timely responses, and set/manage deadline expectations.