Description:
Provides legal advice and serves as in-house counsel to Strategic Education on a wide variety of matters.Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Assist with federal regulatory matters related to two accredited institutions of higher education.
- Assist with litigation and administrative proceedings to which the company is a party.
- Provide legal analysis and advice to administrators on policy matters, especially regulatory compliance issues.
- Investigate legal issues and recommend action to administrators.
- Negotiate and draft contracts: draft legal documents and policies.
- Research federal and state legal questions.
- Assist with general corporate matters.
- Review university programs, procedures, and policies for legal compliance.
- Provide legal and compliance training to in-house clients.
Job Skills:
- Excellent analytical, oral, and written communications skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Strong computer/word processing skills, including knowledge of standard Microsoft Office products such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
- Ability and willingness to apply independent judgment in a dynamic environment.
Work Experience:
- At least three years of experience in the practice of law.
- Higher education experience preferred.
- Experience in consumer protection law preferred (in-house, law firm, or government position)
Education:
- Bachelor's degree and JD from an ABA-accredited law school.
Certificates, Licenses, and registrations
- Bar admission in one or more of the following jurisdictions: Virginia, Minnesota, Maryland, or Washington, DC.
Other:
- Must be able to travel 10% of the time.
- Must be able to lift 25 lbs.
- Typical office setting.
- Mobility within the office including movement from floor to floor.
- Travel via plane, car, and metro may be required to perform this job.
- Must be able to work more than 40 hours per week when business needs warrant.
- Access information using a computer.
- Effectively communicate, both up and down the management chain.
- Effectively cope with stressful situations.
- Strong mental acuity.
- Regular, dependable attendance and punctuality are essential functions of this job.
- Other essential functions and marginal job functions are subject to modification.
