Outsourced General Counsel Services (Gcs) Attor...

Description:

The Role:
Our team provides Outsourced General Counsel Services, supporting companies in their day-to-day legal needs, including commercial contracts, employment law, and legal risk matters. You will work with clients from a variety of sectors, including digital marketing, tech, creative, pharma, publishers and FinTech, giving you a wider range of commercial and employment experience. The role requires someone with 5 or more years' experience as you will lead client engagements and be autonomous on several of the Firm's engagements. You will have a commitment to excellent client delivery and will be flexible in your approach to providing fractional, Outsourced General Counsel, services. We are happy to discuss part-time, job share, or hourly arrangements for this opportunity.
Responsibilities:
As a legal professional providing fractional employment and/or commercial law services to clients. Duties will include (but as not limited to):

• Employment Law: Provide legal and strategic business advice on sensitive employment and compliance issues, including, recruiting, and onboarding; employee relations, performance management and investigations; terminations; leaves of absence; works council; compensation and benefits; and other employment-related matters.
• You will develop, maintain, review, and implement HR/employment law policies, templates, playbooks, best practices, and training for clients.
• Reviewing, drafting, and negotiating a variety of commercial agreements (MSAs, template development, advisory services, negotiation of indemnities).
• Compensation/Equity: Drafting compensation and equity programs and agreements for: stock option plans, RSUs, profits interest plans, phantom stock plans, ESOPs, commission plans, incentive compensation plans, bonus plans, and retention agreements
• Commercial Contracts: Drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements with both customers and suppliers such as master services agreements, SOWs, licensing agreements, affiliate agreements, development agreements, marketing agreements, SAAS, and data protection agreements.
• Other General Counsel Services such as risk advice, corporate governance, commercial insurance program reviews, drafting of terms of service, disclosures and privacy policies, etc.
• You'll be working with senior business leaders and HR teams from sectors including: AdTech; creative and digital agencies; FinTech; EdTech; SaaS; Web Developers; and Pharma.

Qualifications and Attributes:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience with employment law or commercial agreement drafting.
• Prior legal experience in-house and/or in law firm servicing mid-market, growth focused SME businesses (with an employment or commercially law focus).
• Possess a self-motivated and proactive approach to managing client relationships. Ensures a deep understanding of clients, their objectives and ensures they provide commercially driven legal outcomes.
• Knowledge of privacy laws and data protection (CCPA &GDPR) a plus
• JD required
• Candidates must be admitted to a US bar (NY and CA states preferred)

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