Corporate Counsel

Job Summary

This corporate counsel position reports directly to the Assistant General Counsel (and indirectly to the General Counsel) and will primarily assist the Legal Department in advancing its objectives by assisting in drafting claims, providing contract analysis and negotiation within AIS' Risk Management parameters, as well as manage construction and employment disputes. While some of this role will focus on construction contract analysis and negotiations, it will also include dispute resolution, litigation and legal analysis in various legal disciplines, such as construction, real estate, employment, or mergers and acquisitions.

This role requires excellent legal writing skills, strong work ethic, a team player, reliability, flexibility, and impeccable professional conduct.

• Work with Assistant General Counsel and General Counsel to manage construction and employment disputes.
• Assist with accident investigation, witness interviews, researching and drafting briefs and claims as needed when disputes arise.
• Analyze and digest large job files and craft plan to recover monies owed to various AIS' subsidiaries.
• Perform various tasks with on‑going projects on an as‑needed basis.

• Ability to learn complex contract review processes and perform legal analysis.
• Ability to work quickly, efficiently, and accurately to review federal, public and private construction contracts, make redlines as needed, and draft communications to AIS' subsidiaries with explanations of the redlines made.
• Manage relationship with over thirty (30) AIS' subsidiaries throughout the United States by providing timely contract analysis and advice, while balancing the AIS risk tolerances and ensuring the contract process, as a whole, is not impeded.
• Participate in and conduct meetings with opposing parties to explain the proposed changes and negotiate mutually agreeable contract terms.

• Attorney, 3‑6 years
• Licensed to practice law in at least one state in the United States (or to become licensed within next 12 months) and eligible to register as in‑house counsel in the state of Arizona.
• The ideal candidate should have strong analytical and writing skills to be able to perform complex contract analysis, as well as the ability to provide legal advice while establishing and maintaining good working relationships with AIS OpCo leaders. Experience in drafting construction claims and / or reasonable equitable adjustments is a must.
• Strong computer skills with proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills required.
• Team Player that is able to work independently, take direction, work within a group to fill a gap, and be reliable.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize accordingly.

• A demonstrated strong team player who is highly skilled in building relationships with creativity and persuasiveness.
• An organized, self-starter, with extreme attention to detail, excellent contract analysis (or the capacity to learn such complex analysis) and stellar follow‑through.
• Proactive – able to create processes to help solve problems before they happen.
• An energetic individual who is willing to dig in and roll up sleeves with a can‑do attitude.
• Flexible and customer service oriented and able to help manage the needs of multiple subsidiaries and projects at the same time.
• Goal oriented – you achieve the goals you set out to accomplish.

• Be provided specific contract analysis and dispute training to ensure you know how to perform assigned work.
• Be provided with specific tasks, goals and annual objectives so that you can track expectations and proactively stay ahead of what needs to happen in order to perform at a high level.
• Have strong problem‑solving and organizational skills, with the ability to think creatively and outside the box.