Corporate General Counsel Part Time (20 hours/week)

Corporate General Counsel Part Time (20 hours/week)

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Audits: Provide support to internal and external parties for audits, including annual and other one-time audits.
• Commercial Transactions: Support during the due diligence, planning and execution of transactions, liaise with external counsel, facilitate completion of closing checklist, support internally with drafting corporate documents, create consolidated closing binders.
• Draft and review contracts.
• Managing corporate legal affairs
• Crisis Management: Act as an as-needed resource in case of crises (COVID, Cyber Breach, etc.), ranging in responsibility from long-term project management to ad hoc responsiveness, depending on organization needs.
• Dispute Resolution: Provide counselling or attend to pre-litigation dispute management activities, including negotiation of settlement and guidance on litigation avoidance, on a case-by-case basis.
• Insurance and Risk Management: Provide support on an annual basis, and as needed to internal and broker teams
• Intellectual Property: Provide as needed support for inquiries, including registrations, infringements and risk management.
• Litigation (Insured): Work with insurance appointed counsel and claims representative at insurance company regarding.
• Litigation (Uninsured): Manage all aspects of pre-suit and litigated cases in all areas of law such as commercial, product liability, employment.
• Real Estate (Commercial): Oversee and provide support in all areas relating to ownership’s real estate portfolio management
• Templates: Draft and upkeep templates
• Terms and Conditions: Draft and upkeep terms and conditions for products and services provided to external stakeholders

How You’ll Be Spending Your Time:

• Dispute and litigation management                                            50%
• Standardization activities (policies, templates, etc.)                     20%
• Real estate related activities (leases, external advisor support)     15%
• Corporate affairs and templates                                                 10%
• Inter-departmental activities (contract reviews, IP, insurance)        5%

What You Need To Be Successful:

• LL.B. or J.D.
• Member in Good Standing of the Law Society of Ontario
• 5 years of broad range (full-service) experience
• commercial transactional experience is more valuable than litigation experience
• Quick learner
• Adaptable
• Issue identifier
• Creative problem solver
• Confidence in experience and capabilities