Corporate Counsel

Tempe, AZ, USA | Legal | Salary | per year | Full Time

We offer competitive salaries and full range of benefits including generous PTO plan, paid holidays, medical, dental, vision, 401K (100% match up to 4% eligible compensation) and 100% immediate vesting, basic and supplemental life insurance, short-term and long-term disability as well as other benefits.

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AIS, and its Operating Companies provides industrial construction, environmental engineering, and remediation services to customers throughout the United States through its subsidiary businesses. AIS, and its Operating Companies, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC), a Native Alaskan corporation with annual revenue of about $4.5 billion. Through ASRC we are a certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and our association permits us to perform large, highly complex projects as well as to invest in systems and processes that improve cost effectiveness and enhance safety.

AIS offers a highly collaborative, challenging and rewarding work culture characterized by our Purpose - to leave things better than we found them.

This Corporate Counsel position reports directly to the Assistant General Counsel (and indirectly to the General Counsel) and primarily assists the Legal Department in advancing its objectives. Responsibilities include drafting claims, providing contract analysis and negotiation within AIS' risk management parameters, and managing construction and employment disputes. While a portion of this role focuses on construction contract analysis and negotiation, it also includes dispute resolution, litigation support, and legal analysis across multiple legal disciplines, including construction, real estate, employment, and mergers and acquisitions.

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

• Work with the Assistant General Counsel and General Counsel to manage construction and employment disputes.
• Assist with accident investigations, witness interviews, legal research, and draft briefs and claims as needed when disputes arise.
• Analyze and review large project files and develop plans to recover monies owed to various AIS, and its Operating Companies.
• Perform various tasks related to ongoing projects on an as-needed basis.

• Learn and apply complex contract review processes and perform detailed legal analysis.
• Work quickly, efficiently, and accurately to review federal, public, and private construction contracts; make red lines as needed; and draft communications to AIS, and its Operating Companies explaining proposed revisions.
• Manage relationships with more than thirty (30) AIS, and its Operating Companies across the United States by providing timely contract analysis and legal advice while balancing AIS risk tolerances and ensuring the overall contract process remains efficient.
• Participate in and lead meetings with opposing parties to explain proposed changes and negotiate mutually agreeable contract terms.

• Attorney with a minimum of 2-4 years of experience.
• Licensed to practice law in at least one U.S. state (or able to become licensed within the next 12 months) and eligible to register as in-house counsel in the State of Arizona.
• Strong analytical and writing skills, with the ability to perform complex contract analysis and provide legal advice while establishing and maintaining positive working relationships with AIS Operating…