Job Description

Elevate is hiring a Commercial Attorney, who will be a member of Elevate's Managed Contracts Services Team, working closely with in-house legal departments and their internal business clients. The person will provide deal support and participate in projects to improve our client's contractual infrastructure, workflow, and processes. The person will work independently on assigned matters but will also work collaboratively with other members of the Elevate team and Elevate service lines, as well as the clients in house team.


Specifically, this role will involve:


• Reviewing contracts and negotiating acceptable alternatives, working from templates and tools that you will help create.
• Facilitating escalation and resolution of contract issues.
• Updating or drafting templates, negotiation playbooks, and other contract infrastructure tools.
• Capturing various pieces of information related to the contracts or matters that you support.
• Participating in or managing client projects to improve contracting efficiency, cost effectiveness, and knowledge sharing.
• Creating reports and making presentations to clients and internal colleagues.
• Participating on task forces that strive to improve how Elevate services its clients and that enable our team to develop and grow.


Skills for Success:


• Proven ability to work in a client-centric, deadline driven environment.
• Can work effectively from a home office or a remote work environment.
• Dependable, responsive, and committed to producing high quality work.
• Flexible, and willing to pitch in on matters and projects to better serve our clients, even if the work falls outside your normal scope of duties.
• Can act independently, and use good judgment, but also not afraid to ask questions.
• Excellent writing skills, particularly depicting complex ideas clearly and concisely.
• Professionalism in both verbal and written work.
• High integrity and ethical compass.
• Excellent listening as well as communication skills and the judgment to know which skill to use in each setting.
• Ability to own mistakes and learn from them.


Experience


• Experience with Microsoft Products like Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint.
• Experience with contract management or workflow software tools is a plus.
• 4-6 of years of legal practice with at least 3 years of experience with commercial transactional support, including drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts, particularly services and supply agreements, software license and SAAS agreements, procurement and other inbound agreements.
• Experience conducting simple to complex legal research and memorandum drafting.
• Excellent track record in previous client support and customer service engagements.


Qualifications:


• LLB or LLM Required


Company Information


Elevate is a law company. We provide software and services for the intersection of business and law. Our legal, business, and technology professionals offer practical ways for global law departments and law firms to improve efficiency, quality, and business outcomes.


Our most recent achievements and distinctions include:


• For the seventh consecutive year, in 2022, Chambers & Partners named Elevate as a Top Global Services Provider, ranking us as Band 1 (highest ranking) in all applicable categories (Contract Lifecycle Management, Litigation Services, and Flexible Legal Staffing).
• Co-winner, 2022 Financial Times Collaborative Innovation Award for Industry Impact.
• Winner, Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, and 2016.
• Named by ALM Intelligence as the only Pacesetter in the Legal category in its 2021-2022 Legal Department Legal Operations report.
• The first non-lawyer-owned global legal services provider to receive an Alternative Business Structure (ABS) License to provide legal services in the US.


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