What are the responsibilities and job description for the Corporate Counsel position at TQL?
Overview:
As the Corporate Counsel for TQL, you will be responsible for proactively mitigating the company’s legal risk, analyzing, managing, addressing, and seeing through to completion legal matters particularly relating to employment, transportation, compliance, and contractual issues, including litigation. We are seeking a highly motivated and energetic individual to join our legal team.
What's in it for you:
- Health, Dental and Vision coverage to best fit your needs, including a plan that takes $0 out of your paycheck 401(k) with company match
- Leadership advancement opportunities with structured career paths
- Reimbursement for continuous education and training
- We win wherever we go - Voted a Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work for (2023) and Forbes America’s Best Employers (2022)
Responsibilities:
- Provide hands-on counsel to all management staff on general and specialized legal matters including litigation, transportation law, employment law, commercial contracts, compliance, and corporate governance
- Provide analysis and guidance on matters relating to pursuing and/or defending litigation, including discussing strategies with internal and external counsel
- Oversee and coordinate litigation matters, including discovery efforts between TQL and external counsel
- Work with third party administrators in tracking, reporting, and managing employment and cargo claims and claims-related litigation from start to finish
- Review, analyze, and advise business segment on risks relating to insurance coverages and applicability to claims
- Offer legal advice and support regarding various employment, compliance, collections, and claims issues
- Collaborate with the various departments to review issues, evaluate legitimacy, and provide legal advice as to how to proceed
- Develop innovative solutions that mitigate legal risk in a manner that supports TQL objectives and priorities
- Distill complex legal principles to an understandable form, concisely articulate such principles to business partners, and apply and implement them in a fast-paced business setting
- Identify risks specifically attributable to the Company’s current and future footprint, then develop, contribute to, audit, and maintain corporate policies and procedures that ensure compliance with applicable statutes and regulations related to such risks
- Perform other legal duties based upon new opportunities that arise within TQL
Qualifications:
- Juris Doctorate from accredited law school
- Admission to a state Bar
- 7 years experince practicing law in a major law firm or corporate law environment
- Knowledge and experience in reviewing, analyzing, participating in, and managing various types of litigation and corporate projects
- Passion for solving complex problems involving multiple individuals and their respective departments
- Excellent business acumen and judgment
- Ability to understand business needs and place legal risk in proper business context
- Strong research, communication, and project management skills
- Proven ability to cultivate and maintain positive working relationships with leadership and both internal and external counsel
- Effective influencing and persuasive skills
- Aptitude to effectively deal with difficult, sometimes contemporaneous situations
- Proactive self-starter with the ability to work independently
- Professional team player comfortable to work with all levels of business
- Flexible, go-getter attitude willing to tackle additional projects as opportunities arise
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and Outlook
What we prefer but do not require:
- Knowledge of the transportation industry, especially experience in transportation services involving customs, ocean, air, export, import, and international shipments
- Knowledge of compliance and risk management issues in corporate environment
