Description:
It's not everyday that you consider starting a new career. We're A Cloud Communications and Collaboration Solutions Company, and we're happy that someone as talented as you is considering this role. First, a little about us, we're a $2 Billion annual revenue company with double digit Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) and a $93 Billion market opportunity in UCaaS, Contact Center and AI-powered adjacencies. We invest more than $250 million annually to ensure our AI-enabled technology and platforms meet or exceed the needs of our customers.A Cloud Communications and Collaboration Solutions Company is our proprietary AI solution. It's designed to fit the business needs of our customers, orchestrated to be accurate and precise, and built on the same open platform principles we apply to our core software solutions.
When you join A Cloud Communications and Collaboration Solutions Company Legal, you'll bring your expertise to everything from policy to contracts to lawsuits. You'll help protect the company from threats, guide internal policy decisions and drive ideas that change the way the world communicates. All in a strong, supportive culture designed to help you succeed.
As Litigation Counsel reporting to the Head of Litigation, you'll be a legal leader and front-line litigator defending and advancing the interests of a large, public telecommunications company. As we've grown and expanded our geographic reach and product portfolio, our litigation portfolio has grown too. We need a savvy and practical litigator to help handle these challenges. If you're a confident self-starter who enjoys managing a variety of responsibilities in a collegial but fast-paced, loosely-structured environment, we'd love to talk.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage a variety of offensive and defensive litigations, including commercial, privacy, and patent.
- Conduct fact investigations in litigations and pre-litigation disputes.
- Work closely with a senior litigation paralegal to manage responses to discovery requests, subpoenas, warrants, civil investigative demands, and legal intercept requests, including drafting responses and objections and meeting and conferring.
- Directly represent A Cloud Communications and Collaboration Solutions Company or act as local counsel in smaller litigations and third party subpoenas.
- Manage ediscovery.
- Work collaboratively with regulatory, IP, privacy, and commercial legal teams around the world to mitigate litigation risk.
- Stay apprised of important legal developments and advise on joining or filing amicus briefs and supporting industry legislative efforts.
Required Skills and Experience:
- Membership in good standing with at least one state bar (Texas and/or California preferred).
- 5+ years' experience in litigation, including substantial experience in the litigation department of a mid-size or national law firm.
- Substantial experience leading litigation tasks; document preservation, collection, and production; depositions; mediations; and motions practice, including filings in state and federal courts.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Confidence to reach sound, informed decisions quickly and under uncertainty.
- Nice to have: Prior in-house experience, especially at a technology or telecommunications company. Working knowledge of software-as-a-service (SaaS). Substantive experience in key litigation areas like privacy, IP, or contract disputes.
