Transactional Attorney

The Nissenbaum Law Group is seeking motivated attorneys with a minimum of two years’ experience in commercial transactional representation. The preferred candidate would have experience in mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, employment law, commercial real estate, commercial transactions and intellectual property.

ABOUT THE FIRM: The Nissenbaum Law Group is a boutique, full service commercial law firm. The firm’s business clients range from individuals and small start-ups to multi-national companies. The position is based out of the firm’s headquarters in Union, NJ though the firm also maintains offices in Manhattan, Philadelphia and Dallas.

HYBRID WORK ARRANGEMENTS: The firm offers work-from-home, hybrid and in-person arrangements to suit the needs of our attorneys. We are very flexible on that score.

NOTE: While admittedly much of current legal practice has become virtual, our attorneys must also be able to attend, for example, in-person meetings and otherwise perform the work of an in-person commercial legal practice as defined by the needs of our clients and law firm

TRAINING AND MENTORING: Entering associates will typically be provided with a 2-4 week intensive training program overseen by our managing attorney.

The firm is committed to mentoring new associates in a collaborative and multi-layered manner respecting relatively all significant aspects of commercial practice. The purpose is to allow our new attorneys wide latitude to take on early responsibilities that will be challenging for them. This includes items such as:

• Drafting, reviewing, advising clients with respect to, and negotiating, agreements in a wide array of fields, including intellectual property, entertainment and sports, construction, health and digital;
• preparing corporate governance documents for both profit and nonprofit entities;
• filing trademarks and copyrights and enforcing those rights; and
• conducting complex legal research and analysis into nuanced areas of law as well as industry regulations and practices in order to advise our clients on transactional matters.

Having said that, our firm is full service with a practice that involves not just transactional matters, but also (a) complex commercial litigation and (b) attorney ethics defense and representation in regard to trust account audits. While the position currently involves transactional work, the firm reserves the right to assign the attorney where our clients needs arise. This can involve having attorneys who are focused in transactional work, also work in the other areas of the firm’s practice. We see this as a benefit of the job, as it is helpful for our commercial attorneys to have a wide-range of training and experience in all aspects of business law. Having said that, the firm is aware that in the past, our transactional attorneys have expressed a preference not to make actual court appearances. The firm will endeavor to take that into account if it can in a given instance, consistent with its clients’ needs.)

In short, this is a job for people who want to accelerate their development as commercial transactional attorneys.

WHAT QUALIFIES YOU:

• JD Degree from an ABA accredited law school

(PLEASE NOTE: A Master of Laws degree that was earned instead of a J.D. degree from an ABA accredited law school is not a sufficient substitute because it is not generally accepted for admission to the NJ bar.),

• admission to the New Jersey bar (and the willingness to seek admission to others),
• outstanding academic credentials,
• 2 years minimum of relevant experience, and
• strong oral and written communication skills.

PAY: $120,000 - $165,000/ year

BENEFITS: We currently offer an array of employee benefits:

multiple medical insurance plans with an employer contribution,

• long term-disability insurance with an employer contribution,
• life insurance with an employer contribution,
• short term disability, accident and dental insurance, which is employee paid, and
• Fidelity 401K.