Senior Counsel I, In House Counsel

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National Grid is hiring a Senior Counsel I to support the NY Regulatory team. This is a full-time hybrid position that will be located out of our office in Syracuse, NY.

Job Purpose

National Grid is seeking an in-house attorney to work in the New York Legal-Regulatory practice group, as part of the General Counsel function. The ideal candidate will have relevant experience as a practicing attorney, demonstrating strong analytical, research, and interpersonal skills, as well as persuasive oral and written communication capabilities. Responsibilities include practicing before the New York State Public Service Commission and advising clients regarding all aspects of state utility regulation in New York, including matters related to electric and gas rate cases, compliance filings, capital investments, safety, distributed generation, interconnections, cybersecurity and data protection, emissions reduction goals, contracting, customer complaints, energy efficiency, grid modernization, and emerging legislative/regulatory requirements. This role will include drafting and filing petitions, testimony, compliance documents, and customer correspondence, as well as representing the business in regulatory proceedings and meetings before the Commission and with stakeholder groups.

Key Accountabilities

• Provide expert legal advice and counsel with respect to all aspects of energy regulation to support business clients in achieving their objectives.
• Offer creative and innovative legal approaches for the benefit of the business client.
• Regularly draft, review, and file regulatory documents with the New York State Public Service Commission, including testimony, petitions, and compliance items.
• Exercise independent judgment on complex legal matters.
• Independently perform research and legal analysis including legislation and regulation.
• Advocate effectively complex company positions both internally and externally to National Grid.
• Continuously seek ways to do things better to drive greater efficiencies for the business client.
• Demonstrate the ability to anticipate obstacles and think ahead about next steps.
• Demonstrate the ability to understand the connection between the business and relevant research or information.
• Manage numerous legal matters efficiently and effectively, including those with significant strategic, financial, precedential, or reputational impact.
• Establish a high level of confidence with management, business clients, and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrate the ability to apply and distill complex theories and learned concepts appropriately and explain the same to the business client.
• Identify significant corporate risks in business matters; provide legal guidance to the business and constructively challenge risk issues; work with the business to develop appropriate mitigation measures.
• Express commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and support events and/or initiatives of interest throughout the organization.
• Recognize and actively seek to join and attend external forums/practice groups.
• Keep current with industry laws, regulations, and trends.
  
  
  

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school.
• 5 years relevant legal and/or industry experience
• Admission in good standing to the New York State Bar (or evidence of initiating process to secure New York State Bar license and subsequent admission to the Bar).
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including ability to draft and file legal documents with regulatory agencies or courts.
• Exhibits high personal standards of commitment and ethics.
• Strong sense of teamwork; ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders and on multidisciplinary teams.
• Commitment to the Company’s corporate values including the advancement of inclusion and diversity principles.
• Highly proficient legal research and analytic skills; flexible decision making; initiative; and the ability to work independently.
• Ability to effectively identify complex legal problems and risks and advance commercially reasonable business solutions.
• Willingness to effectively engage senior management on increasingly complex legal decisions and outcomes and work collaboratively with the business
  
  
  

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Salary

$179k - $195k a year

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