Description:
Job Description:Benefits Overview:
A career at CoBank can offer you the opportunity to make a personal impact on the people and communities where we do business. In order to be the best, we hire the best!
Remarkable Benefits Offered by CoBank
- Careers with a purpose
- Time-Off Packages, 15 days of vacation, 10 paid sick days and 11 paid holidays
- Competitive Compensation & Incentive
- Hybrid work model: flexible arrangements for most positions
- Benefits Packages, including Medical, Dental and Vision coverage, Disability, AD&D, and Life Insurance
- Robust associate training and development with CoBank University
- Tuition reimbursement for higher education
- Outstanding 401k: up to 6% matching and additional 3% non-elective contribution & Student Loan Match
- Community Impact: United Way Angel Day, Volunteer Day and Associate Directed Contribution
- Associate Resource Groups: creating a culture of respect and inclusion
- Recognize a fellow associate through our GEM awards
Job Description:
Provides legal advice, including direction on transactional matters, commercial loan and other general legal transactions and issues. Assists more senior level attorneys in the provision of legal advice to in-house clients, in transactions, vendor and loan agreements and other legal matters. Reviews legal publications and pending legislation and advises management of changes that impact CoBank. Executes smaller, less complex tasks delegated by more senior level attorneys and may represent CoBank in negotiations.
Essential Functions:
- Provides legal services, legal counsel, guidance, recommendations, and proactive advice, in consultation with their supervisor, on legal issues to assigned individual banking groups/divisions/management.
- Conducts legal research and issues legal opinions.
- With respect to transactional matters, prepares, reviews, negotiates and/or interprets various legal instruments and documents of all types such as contracts, confidentiality agreements, leases, loan agreements, collateral documents, organizational documents and other agreements.
- Reviews and analyzes loan or lease and collateral documentation and drafts legal audits memoranda for assigned individual banking groups; consults with and advises relationship managers and other associates concerning loan transactions.
- Reviews paralegal work on various matters, including signatory authority reviews, collateral summaries and title insurance issues.
Education:
- JD From an approved law school required
- Admission in state bar required
Work Experience:
- 1 year of experience in commercial transactions or representing lenders and borrowers in negotiating, documenting, and closing a wide range of commercial financing transactions required
- 2 years of experience in commercial transactions or representing lenders and borrowers in negotiating, documenting, and closing a wide range of commercial financing transactions preferred
- Knowledge of other areas of law related to transactions (e.g., environmental law)
- Basic knowledge of the laws and regulations affecting the Farm Credit System
- Basic knowledge of corporate and commercial law in the context of commercial loan transactions, including real estate and personal property collateral, participations, and syndications.
Physical Exertion Details
Sedentary Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally (Occasionally: activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time) and/or a negligible amount of force frequently (Frequently: activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time, but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.
Travel Requirement Details
Occasional Travel occurs infrequently (typically, once a month or less).
