In-House Legal Counsel

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Full Time Salary Professional Guelph, ON, CA

2 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: CA$ To CA$ Annually

In-House Legal | Corporate & Commercial

Location

Compensation

$150,000 - $175,000 CAD

Schedule

Full-Time

Experience

3-5 years post-call

You've built your legal foundation. Now you may be ready to see what happens when you're inside the business making decisions with the people you're advising.

Gateway Services is looking for an In-House Legal professional to join our team and work directly with our Chief Strategy Officer and leaders across our North American business.

This is an opportunity for a lawyer with approximately 3-5 years of post-call experience who wants to make the move from private practice into corporate life - or accelerate an in-house career already underway.

You'll work on real commercial issues, learn how a growing North American organization operates, interact directly with business leaders and develop experience across contracts, employment matters, litigation, corporate transactions, compliance, intellectual property and risk.

You won't be expected to know everything on day one. What we're looking for is a strong legal foundation, good judgment, commercial curiosity and someone who wants to become a great business lawyer, not simply a great technical lawyer.

Get closer to the business. Work directly with the people making decisions rather than advising them from the sidelines.

Broaden your legal experience. Gain exposure to commercial agreements, employment matters, litigation, M&A, governance, IP, compliance and other issues affecting a North American business.

See what happens after the advice. Understand the operational and commercial impact of legal decisions and help implement solutions.

Work with senior leadership. Reporting to our Chief Strategy Officer, you will have exposure to leaders across Operations, HR, Finance, Sales, IT and other functions.

Develop your commercial judgment. Help the business understand its options and find practical ways forward - not simply identify legal risk.

Build an in-house career. Develop the breadth, business knowledge and judgment that can form the foundation of a long-term corporate legal career.

No two weeks are likely to look exactly the same. You will have the opportunity to:

• Draft, review and negotiate commercial agreements.
• Advise business leaders on day-to-day legal questions.
• Help identify and manage legal and commercial risk.
• Partner with HR on employment-related matters.
• Support litigation, claims and commercial disputes.
• Coordinate matters with external legal counsel across Canada and the United States.
• Support corporate governance and entity-management activities.
• Participate in due diligence and M&A-related work.
• Assist with privacy, regulatory and compliance matters.
• Help protect Gateway's trademarks, patents and other intellectual property.
• Develop templates and processes that make legal support faster and more effective.
• Learn Gateway's business and become a trusted legal partner to the teams you support.

We're not looking for a 3-5 year lawyer who somehow already knows every aspect of Canadian and U.S. corporate, employment, privacy, regulatory, IP and litigation law.

We're looking for someone who knows how to think like a lawyer and learn like a business partner.

You'll be expected to research, ask good questions, exercise sound judgment and recognize when specialist external counsel should be brought into a matter.

Gateway works with external legal partners who can provide specialized expertise when needed. Your role is to increasingly become the person inside

Gateway who understands both the legal issue and the business behind it.

• You've been called to the Bar for approximately 3-5 years.
• You have a J.D., LL.B. or equivalent law degree.
• You're a member in good standing of a Canadian provincial law society.
• You've developed a solid foundation in corporate and commercial law.
• You're comfortable drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts.
• You're interested in how businesses actually operate.
• You can explain legal issues clearly without unnecessary legal jargon.
• You enjoy solving problems rather than simply identifying them.
• You're comfortable…