Description:
We are looking for a creative and high energy attorney interested in working at the nexus of law, business, technology, and data.This role will join the Business Law & Compliance division of Allstate's Law and Regulation enterprise to provide broad commercial counseling for Allstate's emerging and non-insurance businesses as well as support matters across the enterprise relating to technology and privacy.
Embrace the excitement of constant victories and new challenges in this dynamic role!
Key Responsibilities:
- Real time and critical business-focused commercial legal advice for a broad range of businesses and issues, including advising on product, marketing, and sales
- Structure, draft, and negotiate complex commercial agreements, including technology, data, and service contracts
- Advise business partners on emerging business issues, legal subjects and risk management primarily in areas of commercial contract, regulatory, privacy, and consumer protection
- Executive presence and concise verbal and written communication a must
- Play a key role in executing strategy, action planning, and communication with business partners, business units, and other areas of Law & Regulation
- Anticipate legal concerns and provide creative problem solving in a dynamic business environment
- Complex research as to applicability of pertinent laws, statutes, regulations, rules, and other legal authority; ability to summarize concisely and collaborate with other areas of company to determine impact of new legal authority on business and enable action plans
- Understand interaction in regulated environments between business, policy, compliance, legislative and legal frameworks
- Comfort with executing on goals and objectives through ambiguity and in a changing business and legal landscape
- Execution abilities within a parent company and its family of companies
- Ability to manage outside counsel and budgets
- Prefer experience in the following areas: technology, commercial, artificial intelligence, data, privacy, intellectual property, and/or highly regulated sectors
- Business acumen with ability to quantify return on investments (create and contribute to business cases and risk evaluations)
- Assist in building a culture of constructive debate and conversations with a virtual team across multiple locations
Supervisory Responsibilities:
This job may have informal supervisory duties.
A typical day for a Commercial Counsel might include::
- Advising business partners on a new technology product rollout or a new corporate structure
- Coordinating, understanding, and synthesizing complex legal advice from other attorneys within Law and Regulation and outside experts to advise business partners in a simple, direct manner
- Drafting a complex data licensing arrangement or commercial deals
- Driving implementation of a compliance plan
We are fortunate to have a talented, engaged, and hard-working team and are looking for someone with those same qualities. You might be the right fit if:
- You thrive on advising in areas of law that are unsettled and constantly changing
- You understand how to build new, efficient processes
- You volunteer ideas and creative solutions
- You are comfortable working with both a legal and business mindset simultaneously
Education and Experience:
- Juris Doctorate
- 7+ years legal experience in a law firm or an in-house legal department for a mid- to large-sized company typical
- Experience in the following areas: commercial, privacy, technology, cybersecurity, international, intellectual property, strategy, data, and/or highly regulated sectors
- Experience operating within a parent company and its family of companies
- Preference for in-house experience advising a commercial business unit and/or business and work experience outside legal context
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
Admitted and licensed to practice law in at least one state
