Description:
Role:Under limited direction, provides legal support for a broad range of corporate and transactional matters.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Reviews and negotiates customer-facing service agreements with jurisdictions and other commercial agreements specific to the resource recovery industry.
- Represents the company in contract negotiations with governmental and industry counterparties.
- Advises internal clients on matters of statutory and contract interpretation, including compliance with industry-specific California regulations.
- Reviews and advises on requests for proposals issued by governmental entities and the company's responses thereto.
- Advises and assists internal clients in pre-litigation dispute resolution and advocacy with governmental partners.
- Manages outside counsel.
- Travel on a limited basis when needed.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- 5 years' experience at an AmLaw 200 firm as a corporate/business lawyer.
- 5 years' experience as in-house transactional attorney at a reputable company.
- Experience in contracting with governmental entities a plus.
- Experience in resource recovery or related industry a plus.
- Strong financial and business acumen.
- High level of professionalism and commitment to ethical behavior.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with a variety of internal clients.
- Able to effectively prioritize and execute multiple projects with aggressive timing constraints.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent math skills, able to understand and document complex rate formulas.
- Proficiency with Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams, Zoom, Adobe.
- Juris doctor from US News top 50 law school preferred.
- Member in good standing of the State Bar of California.
- Valid current driver's license.
Recology Offers
- An ecologically innovative company that finds and mentors people committed to protecting the environment and sustaining our communities.
- The largest employee-owned resource recovery company in the industry with terrific benefits to help you prosper.
- A creative and caring culture that values community, diversity, altruism, accountability, collaboration, and learning by doing.
- An inspired company mission driven to use and return resources to their best and highest use through the practice of the 4R's: Reduce, Re-use, Recycle, and Recologize.
- Distinct professional challenges to connect with, care for, and grow community that sees a world without waste.