Corporate Attorney
Our client is a boutique transportation and logistics law firm with real industryexperience, a national practice, and a local footprint in central and south Florida. They are industry insiders and understand the law of transportation and logistics—and most importantly, they get the law of business. Our client brings together the power of local legal practice, deep transportation industry understanding, and nimble lawyering. They are proud to represent the hard-working businesses that
manufacture, arrange, transport, and insure the staples of this country. Their clients include motor carriers, brokers, agents, freight forwarders, shippers, owner-operators, and warehouses, as well as insurance and other logistics companies.
Corporate Attorney
Our client is seeking a Corporate Attorney to join its nationally recognized boutique transportation and logistics practice. Associates will work closely with
attorneys who are industry insiders. Our client is looking for an attorney who has the capacity to learn quickly, take the ball, and run with it. If you are accountable, sharp, and eager to take advantage of the opportunity this firm offers, our client would love to hear from you. An ideal candidate will have business and transactional experience in the transportation and logistics industry and has a range of contract drafting and business structuring experience, and is comfortable advising clients on strategic decisions, contract interpretation, demands for payment, and insurance claims.
Job Type: Full-time/Work from home
Responsibilities:
- Review, draft, and negotiate sophisticated commercial contracts, including transportation agreements, warehousing agreements, vehicle and property leases, stock and asset purchase agreements, vendor agreements, financing arrangements, services agreements, and non-disclosure/non-compete agreements.
- Research legal issues relating to a wide variety of business issues, including transportation law and regulations, secured transactions and financing arrangements, and dispute resolution, and provide analysis within client budgets and time constraints.
- Analyze and oversee insurance coverage issues and develop risk management strategies to transportation and related entities.
- Assist in due diligence for mergers, acquisitions, and sales of motor carrier, freight forwarder, broker, and warehouse entities.
- Draft, pursue, and respond to demand letters.
- Assist on employment and litigation matters, when needed.
- Manage high client volume and workload responsibly.
- Research, analyze, and apply law to business operations within complex regulatory frameworks.
- Support regulatory compliance audits and analyses.
- Respond to compliance audits and investigations relating to transportation law.
- Exercise a high level of professionalism, business judgment, and legal analytical skills.
- Seek efficiencies and work to improve systems and processes.
- Maintain accountability to Firm Partners for any work product and independent client correspondence.
- Develop strategies to complex legal matters and offer solutions to Partners and clients.
- Timely and professionally resolve client needs, while establishing consistent updates to clients and Partners throughout the handling of each matter.
- Regularly supply clients with budgets for services and comply with the same.
- Provide consistent issue-spotting and business-focused solutions to clients and Partners.
- Manage and effectively communicate with opposing counsels.
- Intimately understand client operations, structure, objectives, and goals.
- Keep apprised of industry developments, updates, regulations, and laws.
- Participate in industry associations, conferences, and forums through writing and presentations.
- JD from ABA accredited law school.
- Admission to a state bar Association.
- 3-5 years’ experience practicing law.
- 3+ years’ experience in Transportation and Logistics Industry.
This position offers a competitive base salary.
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