Staff Attorney

Description

• Identify relevant industry regulations, precedents, and best practices as they pertain to company legal documents, contracts, and agreements.
• Assist with training, especially with respect to subcontracting.
• Collaborate with construction project teams in contract and subcontract administration.
• Track and update client contracts to support project management contract administration.
• Ensure documents, contracts, and agreements are accurate, enforceable, and protect the company’s interests.
• Ensure compliance with contractual obligations, monitor contract performance, and assist with the management of any contract disputes.
• Prepare detailed abstracts summarizing key notice and other provisions in client contracts.
• Hands/Arms: Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery. Frequently operates machinery and will use hand/fingers and legs to operate, activate, use, prepare, inspect, place, detect, and position materials.
• Assist in codifying Contracting Standards.
• Perform data analysis to proactively support claims identification and management to mitigate potential legal risk.
• Review proposed client contracts, identifying deviations from the company’s standards.
• Support the review, negotiation, and administration of contracts, including construction contracts, vendor contracts, subcontractor agreements, and other legal documents.
• Support e-discovery and other litigation-related discovery activities.

Requirements

• Manages Complexity – Can make sense of complex, high-quantity data by asking the right questions to uncover the root cause of an issue.
• Admission to a state bar and in good standing to obtain in-house admission/certification.
• Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an ABA-accredited law school.
• Hearing: Must be able to work in proximity to loud equipment more than 75% of the time. Must be able to wear hearing protection, as necessary. Often required to communicate with customers and co-workers in an office setting and on the job site.
• Must be able to work outdoors in varying weather conditions and on active construction sites.
• Speech: Ability to communicate laws, ordinances, plans, regulations, protocols, directives, and standard operating procedures related to project scope in English.
• Must be able to climb stairs, to ascend and descend ladders, scaffold, inspect confined or underground spaces.
• Kneeling/Crouching/Crawling: Must be able to regularly position self in a kneeling, crouching or crawling position for purpose of examining project work.
• Sight: Specific vision abilities required include close vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus in an outdoor environment. Must be able to safely operate a vehicle with a valid driver’s license. The work is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures, transcribing, viewing a computer terminal, reading print and digital documents.
• Communicates Effectively – The ability to develop and deliver clear, audience-appropriate written and oral communications, across all levels, functions, and demographics.
• Must be able to physically access all areas and levels of construction site for work progress review.
• Work schedule must be flexible to allow for extended hours or off-shift work to accommodate changing construction schedule and sequences.
• Actively and attentively listens to others, encouraging collaboration, and building relationships through respectful communication.
• At least three (3+) years of working experience in construction law or a related field at a law firm preferred.
• Being Resilient – Effectively handles and manages setbacks, adversity, or crises, growing from difficult experiences.
• Ability to obtain admission to the Oregon state bar
• Interpersonal Savvy – Relates and builds rapport with diverse groups of people, always acting with diplomacy and tact.
• Must use independent judgment, organizational and critical thinking skills to determine best method to accomplish desired results.
• Action Oriented – Readily takes appropriate action, seizes new opportunities, and will take on new tasks and challenges with a sense of urgency and enthusiasm.
• Lift/Carry: Must have the ability to lift or manipulate fifty pounds to a height of three feet and carry or push it 50-100 feet.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits—including free primary care for you and your family through our dedicated clinics, health insurance, paid time off, and a generous retirement plan.
• Competitive pay and advancement opportunities
• Ongoing professional training and development

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance