Associate Attorney - Business Law

Job Title: Associate Attorney - Business Law

About Our Firm:

“Navvee” is short for “Navigation” or “Navigator”. It’s what we do for our business and investor clients: providing direction and advice on achieving business success. We’re not your garden variety business advisory and law firm. We have decades of experience in actually running businesses, INCLUDING acquisitions, growth, exits, and how the law supports and frames a business’s operation. We provide services to business owners, key executives, and investors that are looking for solid business advice coupled with a strong understanding of the law and how to apply that knowledge to create winning business solutions.We are experiencing phenomenal growth right now and have a need for at least one associate to join our team.Navvee pays competitive salaries and benefits packages.For more information, visit our website at https:/navvee.com.

Position Summary:

Our law firm is seeking an early career Associate Attorney with a strong interest in business law, contracts, and mergers and acquisitions to join our growing team. As an Associate Attorney, you will be responsible for providing legal advice and counsel to clients on various matters related to business law. You will work closely with senior attorneys, paralegals, and other legal and administrative professionals to ensure that clients receive high-quality business advisory and legal services.

Essential Functions:

• Collaborate with senior attorneys and paralegals to prepare for client meetings, to prepare strategic guidance for clients, and to work with outside or specialty counsel to provide expected client services.
• Draft and review legal documents, including contracts, agreements, and corporate formation and governance documents.
• Advise clients on legal and business issues related to their operations, including regulatory compliance, employment law, and commercial transactions.
• Represent clients in negotiations, mediations, and other legal proceedings related to business law.
• Conduct legal research and analysis on various business law issues, including contracts, mergers and acquisitions, general corporate law, intellectual property law, tax law, insurance law and securities law.
• Communicate with clients regularly to update them on legal matters and provide advice and counsel on legal and business issues.

Qualifications:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• 1-3 years of experience working in a small to medium sized firm with a focus on business law, contracts, mergers and acquisitions, or other business related areas of law serving primarily business clients.
• Strong analytical and research skills.
• Prior experience working in a non-law related business is a definite plus.
• Strong work ethic and commitment to providing high-quality legal and business advisory services to clients.
• Multi-jurisdictional admissions are a plus.
• Ability to work well independently as well as part of a team.
• J.D. or LLM from an accredited law school and active membership in the State Bar of Nevada.
• Solid business automation capabilities including Microsoft Office applications, law firm automation packages (esp. Clio) and other automation systems.Experience with AI including a strong understanding of what it can and cannot do is another plus.
• Dual major JD/MBA or other highly business focused education also a plus.

To Apply:

Send an email to [email protected] with a current resume, a writing sample of between 5-10 pages, and a cover letter explaining your interest in joining the firm.

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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to type or handle paperwork, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded or modified to include other duties or responsibilities or positional demands or environmental characteristics that management may deem necessary from time to time.