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2025 In-House Legal Intern - Non- Exempt
City Electric Supply (CES)
Looking to start an exciting new career? City Electric Supply offers excellent career opportunities for people who are friendly, motivated, and passionate about providing incredible customer service.
About City Electric Supply
CES is a family-owned electrical wholesaler with the benefits of a worldwide service network and the personal service of a neighborhood store. Our "customer service first" core value has allowed us to grow continually for over 65 years while keeping our founding principle of empowering people to make local business decisions. CES now employs more than 7,400 people at over 1,000 branches world-wide of which there are over 500 branches across North America. Our vision is to add 30-35 branches a year, while staying true to our Company values.
Summary :
CES is in search of a legal intern for the summer of 2025. This intern would have the opportunity to work with in-house attorneys on a variety of issues, including both transactional and litigation matters. Some areas of exposure may include contract negotiation, drafting, and interpretation; finance; intellectual property; employment law matters; litigation management and document review; real estate purchases, sales, and leases; and mergers and acquisitions.
This position will be on-site Monday – Thursday, with optional remote work on Fridays.
Essential Job Functions :
- Assist in conducting legal research on a variety of topics, including contracts, intellectual property, employment law, and real estate matters, providing support to in-house counsel in preparing case strategies and legal documents.
- Support attorneys in drafting, reviewing, and interpreting contracts, employment policies, litigation-related documents, and other legal materials.
- Assist in contract negotiation and the drafting of documents related to real estate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance matters.
- Help with document management and review for ongoing litigation matters, including organizing evidence, summarizing case files, and assisting with discovery.
- Work alongside in-house attorneys and other departments to support legal projects, ensuring timely completion and adherence to legal guidelines.
- Provide general support to the legal department, including managing deadlines, organizing files, and assisting with other administrative tasks as needed.
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Supervisory Responsibility
This position has no supervisory responsibilities.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, and climbing. The employee must be able to lift and move items up to 50 pounds.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
EEO Statement
City Electric Supply (CES) provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and candidates for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, veteran status, or other protected class status. In addition to the federal law requirements, CES complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. CES also makes reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities, in accordance with the ADA. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfers, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
Attention Applicants : If you have a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, or if you have difficulty accessing or using the online application process and need an alternative method, please contact us at HRServices@cityelectricsupply.com or 1-855-571-2477.
City Electric Supply is a drug free workplace.
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