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Job details
Business Bankruptcy Attorney Needed
This Jobot Job is hosted by Brandon Yolles
Are you a fit? Easy Apply now by clicking the "Easy Apply" button and sending us your resume.
Salary $125,000 - $165,000 per year
A Bit About Us
Minimum two years of corporate transactional experience or litigation experience required for consideration.
Prefer Attorney with 8 years experience as these are complex cases.
Interested candidates must be admitted to practice in Iowa or eligible to waive into Iowa.
Why join us?
Why join us?
Peer Respected Iowa Firm
Excellent Compensation And Benefits
Achievable Opportunities for Promotion
Remote Work Flexibility
Job Details
In addition to bankruptcy and agricultural law, Our Client can assist with a variety of other business-related transactions, including
Buying/selling businesses/farm real estate
Complex negotiations
Creditor representation
Involuntary bankruptcy
This position will be responsible for important work, including
Maintaining excellent communication with clients, advisors, opposing counsel, courts, and other interested parties.
Supervising and assisting the firm’s qualified staff and professionals in evaluating the client’s overall financial, tax, and legal position.
Assisting clients in determining realistic goals then designing strategies to accomplish those goals.
Providing excellent legal services, including legal research; drafting petitions, schedules, motions, pleadings, orders, and status updates; and overseeing and analyzing discovery. The Senior Associate may delegate to Junior Associates and Paralegals to accomplish these tasks, but remains responsible for the final work product.
Representing clients at mediations, negotiations, depositions, and in court, whether state court, federal district court, or bankruptcy court.
Conducting new client meetings (also called case evaluations or initial consultations) for the purpose of selling legal services.
Systems Refinement & Management Duties
This firm utilizes a mixture of technology and carefully crafted policies and procedures to help leverage the power of the firm’s full team to the benefit of their clients and deliver a consistent work product regardless of the individual personalities involved in any given case. Consequently, the following duties are critical aspects of this position.
Management
Work with the owner of the firm, its professional legal administrator and/or Chief Operating Officer, as relevant, to refine and optimize the firm’s policies and procedures that are relevant to any workflows within the Senior Associate Attorney’s area of responsibility.
Train subordinate staff (e.g. paralegals, legal secretaries, et. al.) on the firm’s policies and procedures, and audit compliance with the same as appropriate.
Cultivate expert familiarity with the firm’s law practice management software and other technological systems to leverage the power of these tools to enhance efficiency, transparency, and constancy of the firm’s work product throughout all assigned cases.
Systems Refinement
Using and following the firm’s policies and procedures.
Making suggestions to continually improve those policies and procedures.
Cultivating expert familiarity with the firm’s law practice management software and other technological systems to leverage the power of these tools to enhance efficiency, transparency, and constancy of the firm’s work product throughout all assigned cases.
If the statements below appeal to you, then you may be our next senior associate
You are familiar with bankruptcy and tax as the relate to distressed businesses.
You are an awesome juggler of tasks and can change gears quickly.
You are a team player, willing to pitch in if your coworkers are in the weeds.
You desire to become a preeminent lawyer advocating for farmers and businesses.
You abhor mediocrity and strive to consistently improve your work product.
We are really seeking someone who can hit the ground running. This is an exciting opportunity for a right-fit candidate to work directly with the owner, one of the leading experts in the country in distressed agricultural debt cases, Chapter 12 bankruptcy and other business matters and grow into increasing levels of authority and autonomy as the firm grows. An ideal candidate will be excited by the opportunity to work with and learn from one of the foremost experts in this field; embrace technology and a systems-driven entrepreneurial law firm culture; and have a passion for bankruptcy and tax law, particularly their interactions in the agricultural industry.
Education
At a minimum, the Senior Associate Attorney must have a law degree from an accredited law school and be licensed in the state of Iowa or have the ability to be licensed in the state of Iowa within a reasonably short period of time. Attorneys licensed in the state of Illinois are encouraged to apply as we have worked for farm debtors in Illinois.
Experience
The Senior Associate will have experience in bankruptcy and debt restructuring, along with a work history that demonstrates increasing responsibility in a law firm or corporate legal department. Typically, the Senior Associate will have confirmed at least five Chapter 11 or Chapter 12 plans (or have equivalent experience on the creditor side) and participated in numerous related activities (motions to lift stay, motions to incur secured debt, motions to assume or reject leases and executory contracts, claim objections, plan objections, adversary proceedings, etc.).
An ideal candidate will have subject matter expertise in the following three areas
Bankruptcy & commercial law.
Knowledge and familiarity with the agricultural industry.
Income tax.
Technical Skills
An ideal candidate will possess the following core technical skills
Negotiation practice.
Understanding of how income taxes affect businesses struggling to survive and considering partial or complete liquidation.
Ability to evaluate probable outcomes in bankruptcy scenarios.
Ability to determine the priority of liens on real and personal property.
Interested in hearing more? Easy Apply now by clicking the "Easy Apply" button.
Want to learn more about this role and Jobot?
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Job details
Business Bankruptcy Attorney Needed
This Jobot Job is hosted by Brandon Yolles
Are you a fit? Easy Apply now by clicking the "Easy Apply" button and sending us your resume.
Salary $125,000 - $165,000 per year
A Bit About Us
Minimum two years of corporate transactional experience or litigation experience required for consideration.
Prefer Attorney with 8 years experience as these are complex cases.
Interested candidates must be admitted to practice in Iowa or eligible to waive into Iowa.
Why join us?
Why join us?
Peer Respected Iowa Firm
Excellent Compensation And Benefits
Achievable Opportunities for Promotion
Remote Work Flexibility
Job Details
In addition to bankruptcy and agricultural law, Our Client can assist with a variety of other business-related transactions, including
Buying/selling businesses/farm real estate
Complex negotiations
Creditor representation
Involuntary bankruptcy
This position will be responsible for important work, including
Maintaining excellent communication with clients, advisors, opposing counsel, courts, and other interested parties.
Supervising and assisting the firm’s qualified staff and professionals in evaluating the client’s overall financial, tax, and legal position.
Assisting clients in determining realistic goals then designing strategies to accomplish those goals.
Providing excellent legal services, including legal research; drafting petitions, schedules, motions, pleadings, orders, and status updates; and overseeing and analyzing discovery. The Senior Associate may delegate to Junior Associates and Paralegals to accomplish these tasks, but remains responsible for the final work product.
Representing clients at mediations, negotiations, depositions, and in court, whether state court, federal district court, or bankruptcy court.
Conducting new client meetings (also called case evaluations or initial consultations) for the purpose of selling legal services.
Systems Refinement & Management Duties
This firm utilizes a mixture of technology and carefully crafted policies and procedures to help leverage the power of the firm’s full team to the benefit of their clients and deliver a consistent work product regardless of the individual personalities involved in any given case. Consequently, the following duties are critical aspects of this position.
Management
Work with the owner of the firm, its professional legal administrator and/or Chief Operating Officer, as relevant, to refine and optimize the firm’s policies and procedures that are relevant to any workflows within the Senior Associate Attorney’s area of responsibility.
Train subordinate staff (e.g. paralegals, legal secretaries, et. al.) on the firm’s policies and procedures, and audit compliance with the same as appropriate.
Cultivate expert familiarity with the firm’s law practice management software and other technological systems to leverage the power of these tools to enhance efficiency, transparency, and constancy of the firm’s work product throughout all assigned cases.
Systems Refinement
Using and following the firm’s policies and procedures.
Making suggestions to continually improve those policies and procedures.
Cultivating expert familiarity with the firm’s law practice management software and other technological systems to leverage the power of these tools to enhance efficiency, transparency, and constancy of the firm’s work product throughout all assigned cases.
If the statements below appeal to you, then you may be our next senior associate
You are familiar with bankruptcy and tax as the relate to distressed businesses.
You are an awesome juggler of tasks and can change gears quickly.
You are a team player, willing to pitch in if your coworkers are in the weeds.
You desire to become a preeminent lawyer advocating for farmers and businesses.
You abhor mediocrity and strive to consistently improve your work product.
We are really seeking someone who can hit the ground running. This is an exciting opportunity for a right-fit candidate to work directly with the owner, one of the leading experts in the country in distressed agricultural debt cases, Chapter 12 bankruptcy and other business matters and grow into increasing levels of authority and autonomy as the firm grows. An ideal candidate will be excited by the opportunity to work with and learn from one of the foremost experts in this field; embrace technology and a systems-driven entrepreneurial law firm culture; and have a passion for bankruptcy and tax law, particularly their interactions in the agricultural industry.
Education
At a minimum, the Senior Associate Attorney must have a law degree from an accredited law school and be licensed in the state of Iowa or have the ability to be licensed in the state of Iowa within a reasonably short period of time. Attorneys licensed in the state of Illinois are encouraged to apply as we have worked for farm debtors in Illinois.
Experience
The Senior Associate will have experience in bankruptcy and debt restructuring, along with a work history that demonstrates increasing responsibility in a law firm or corporate legal department. Typically, the Senior Associate will have confirmed at least five Chapter 11 or Chapter 12 plans (or have equivalent experience on the creditor side) and participated in numerous related activities (motions to lift stay, motions to incur secured debt, motions to assume or reject leases and executory contracts, claim objections, plan objections, adversary proceedings, etc.).
An ideal candidate will have subject matter expertise in the following three areas
Bankruptcy & commercial law.
Knowledge and familiarity with the agricultural industry.
Income tax.
Technical Skills
An ideal candidate will possess the following core technical skills
Negotiation practice.
Understanding of how income taxes affect businesses struggling to survive and considering partial or complete liquidation.
Ability to evaluate probable outcomes in bankruptcy scenarios.
Ability to determine the priority of liens on real and personal property.
Interested in hearing more? Easy Apply now by clicking the "Easy Apply" button.
Want to learn more about this role and Jobot?
Click our Jobot logo and follow our LinkedIn page!
Salary : $125,000 - $165,000
