This position will be responsible for legal leadership of the North American division of a multi-national consulting group. The ideal candidate is an inquisitive thought leader, an expert draftsperson, and relishes reviewing and negotiating a wide range of contracts, including master service agreements, statements of work, partnership agreements, licenses, employment agreements, and settlements. The role requires the ability to build trust within the organization through your knowledge and experience in commercial transactions, ability to produce high quality work in a fast-paced environment, strong business acumen and superior communication skills.  This individual must be a leader and problem solver who can identify substantive legal and business issues and proactively provide practical, creative, understandable solutions to executives. This role joins 3 other practice area leaders and reports to the Chief Financial Officer and parent company General Counsel.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Draft, review and negotiate complex commercial contracts in collaboration with internal account teams and external clients and vendors. Examples include Master Services Agreements, Statements of Work, Waivers & Releases, Employment Agreements, Independent Contractor, Licensing, Settlement and Confidentiality Agreements.
• Critically analyze and make sound recommendations to business leaders with respect to contractual negotiations.
• Partner with Human Resources by providing counsel on labor and employment matters and up-to-date direction on applicable changes in legislation or case law.
• Research and advise business leaders on various transactional issues (e.g., indemnification, IP and limitations of liability), as well as other marketing law issues (e.g., ownership, content licensing, privacy, user generated content, crowdsourcing, promotions law, waivers & releases).
• Provide counsel to legal and business leaders on marketing, data security issues.
• Proactively counsel and train teams on how to mitigate risk.
• Perform pre-litigation work to minimize risks and assist account teams in resolving disputes to ensure consistent and cost-effective handling of legal and business matters, including management of outside counsel.
• Research unique legal issues impacting the Company and identify new statutes and case law applicable to the Company’s activities.
• Provide training to the company and its affiliates on substantive legal topics

 QUALIFICATIONS:

• JD from accredited United States law school and active membership in Texas Bar
• 8-12 years of experience practicing law; consulting or media experience strongly preferred
• The company works at the cutting edge of technology across several sectors and so a keen understanding of technology and how it relates to commercial contracts is a must.
• Significant experience with contract negotiation. Labor/employment experience preferred.
• Familiarity with intellectual property and privacy law preferred, but not required.
• Must have exceptional interpersonal, project management and communication skills with the ability to identify and analyze complex legal and business issues and communicate potential solutions to employees at all levels. 

LEARN MORE:

Credera is a global consulting firm that combines transformational consulting capabilities, deep industry knowledge, and AI and technology expertise to deliver valuable customer experiences and accelerated growth across a broad range of industries worldwide. Our one-of-a-kind global boutique approach means we provide our clients with tailored solutions unique to their organization that can scale due to our extensive footprint. As a values-led organization, our mission is to make an extraordinary impact on our clients, our people, and our community. We believe it is this approach that has allowed us to work with and transform the most influential brands and organizations in the world, from strategy through to execution.

More information is available at www.credera.com.

We are part of the OPMG Group of Companies, a division of Omnicom Group Inc.

Hybrid Work Model:

Our employees have the flexibility to work remotely two days per week. We expect our team members to spend 3 days per week in person with the flexibility to choose the days and times that work best for both them and their project or internal teams. This could be at a Credera office or at the client site. You'll work closely with your project team to align on how you balance both the flexibility that we want to provide with the connection of being together to produce amazing results for our clients.

The why: We are passionate about growing our people both personally and professionally. Our philosophy is that in-person engagement is critical for our ability to develop deep relationships with our clients and our team members – it's how we earn trust, learn from others, and ultimately become better consultants and professionals.

Travel : Our goal is to keep out-of-market travel to a minimum and most projects do not require significant travel. While certain projects can require frequent travel (up to 80% for a period of time), our average travel percentage over a year for team members is typically between 10-30%. We try to take a personal approach to travel. You will submit your travel preferences which our staffing teams will take into account when aligning you to a role.

Credera will never ask for money up front and will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp or Google Hangouts for communicating with you. You should be very wary of, and carefully scrutinize, any job opportunity that asks for money prior to starting and/or one where all communications take place exclusively via chat.