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Greater San Diego Area
Director, Associate General Counsel - Corporate | ARS Pharmaceuticals*
The Director, Associate General Counsel - Corporate is a key member of the Legal Team who assists the Chief Legal Officer in all aspects of managing the Company's legal affairs. The role requires significant interaction with senior leadership, providing advice on a variety of legal issues, and providing solutions to advance business imperatives.
Responsibilities:
- Advises on a broad range of securities laws and corporate governance matters.
- Assists in the preparation and review of securities filings (annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements, registration statements and Section 16 filings).
- Assists in the administration of policies and procedures to ensure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, Nasdaq regulations, SEC regulations (e.g., insider trading, and Reg. FD) and other regulations applicable to public companies.
- Assists in preparing Board of Directors and committee meeting materials covering topics such as financial reviews, corporate governance and strategic transactions.
- Assists with equity and financing transactions.
- Advises on securities matters relating to corporate and strategic transactions.
Corporate Counsel | Eastridge Workforce Solutions
Eastridge Workforce Solutions seeks an experienced and dynamic attorney to serve as Corporate Counsel, overseeing a wide range of legal agreements across multiple business lines and jurisdictions in the United States and Canada.
Responsibilities:
- Lead Counsel for Corporate and Commercial Transactions: Act as the primary legal advisor for all corporate transactional matters, overseeing the drafting, review, negotiation, and redlining of complex contracts across multiple business functions. Key agreements include Staffing Agreements, Managed Service Provider (MSP) Agreements, Vendor Management Systems (VMS), Licensing Agreements, Global Partner Agreements, Data Processing Agreements, Indemnification Agreements, Commercial Real Estate Leases, Vendor Agreements, and Commission Agreements.
- Contract Template Development: Develop and maintain standard contract templates, key clauses, and preferred language for use across client, supplier, and vendor agreements to ensure uniformity, compliance, and legal risk mitigation.
- Employment Law Guidance: Offer legal counsel on a wide range of employment-related matters in both the U.S. and Canada, focusing on wage and hour compliance, hiring/termination processes, employee accommodations, employee handbooks, immigration/I-9 compliance, overtime classifications, independent contractor classifications, background checks, drug testing, sick leave, payroll deductions, and leave of absence issues. Knowledge of ITAR and EAR compliance is also highly valued.
In-House Counsel | Mattress Recycling Council
In-House Counsel will assist with day-to-day legal needs, including reviewing, drafting and negotiating contracts, legal research, and advising on other legal and corporate governance issues. This position reports to the Director, Legal Affairs.
Responsibilities
- Contracts: Draft, review, negotiate and manage complex contracts with vendors, service providers, educational institutions, and municipal governments to ensure compliance with legal standards and organizational policies and practices.
- Legal Research: Conduct thorough legal research on relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards related to recycling, waste management, and environmental compliance.
- Advisory Support: Provide legal advice to internal teams on a variety of issues, including corporate governance, regulatory compliance, and risk management.
Corporate Counsel | Element Biosciences
This role will be pivotal in providing comprehensive commercial and contract legal advice and support across all functions of the company, including Commercial, R&D, Operations, IT, and People teams to ensure alignment with the company's strategic objectives. We are looking for candidates with solid experience in contracts and business legal support, preferably in the biotechnology industry.
Responsibilities:
- Provide efficient, timely, and valued legal support to help the business achieve its goals while also mitigating risk to the company.
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of agreements, including Professional Services Agreements, Supply-in Agreements, Distribution Agreements, Marketing Agreements, Software/IT Agreements, and Research Agreements.
- Provide legal support to Marketing and Product Management, including legal review of marketing collateral, publications/presentations, and customer facing documentation.
Legal Counsel | Qualcomm
Qualcomm Incorporated is seeking an experienced international trade attorney with 5+ years of experience to advise on domestic and international trade laws, including EAR, OFAC, ITAR, and customs matters, as well as other trade- and investment-related regulations and treaties.
Responsibilities:
- Advise the Vice President & Legal Counsel for Trade, as well as the Export and Sanctions Compliance and Customs groups, on legal, regulatory, and operational risk areas relating to export controls, sanctions, customs and other trade- and investment-related regulations, and on the appropriate means of addressing and mitigating them.
- Advise on and implement protocols to ensure compliance with restricted party lists maintained by regulatory agencies such as BIS, Department of Commerce; DDTC, Department of State; and OFAC, Department of the Treasury.
- Conduct sanctions-related transactional due diligence, screening, investigations, audits, and risk assessments.
- Research and analyze trade-related legislation, regulations, and guidance.
- Coordinate collaboratively and effectively across company functions.
Associate General Counsel - Procurement | Resilience Inc.
In addition to possessing all the technical skills of a great attorney, you must have a demonstrated ability to recognize and weigh business priorities and work cross-functionally to advance practical solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Draft, review, analyze, structure, and negotiate a wide variety of procurement agreements including purchase agreements (e.g., direct materials, equipment) and services agreements (e.g., consultancy, IT services agreements, SaaS agreements, design, and construction).
- Supervise contract specialists, paralegals and junior attorneys in their review of procurement agreements.
- Coordinate with Company stakeholders on technical, financial, operational, compliance and risk mitigation aspects of the agreements
- Help build and improve forms, processes, policies, and playbooks
- Advise Procurement personnel with respect to compliance policies, vendor relations, contract matters.
AVP, Associate Counsel (Hybrid) | LPL Financial
This attorney will provide advice on agreements, laws and regulations that impact LPL's support of vulnerable investors and changes in account status arising from death, divorce or the use of trusts and powers of attorney. The role, Assistant Vice President, Associate Counsel, will work with an experienced team of lawyers to provide pragmatic legal advice and thought leadership to help LPL serve and protect investors.
Responsibilities:
- Respond to legal and regulatory issues affecting LPL and financial professionals, with a primary focus on agreements, laws and regulations impacting changes in an investors' circumstances such as: death, marital status, legal capacity, exploitation and vulnerability.
- Providing advice on SEC, FINRA, and state regulations on investor protection, trusted contacts, asset and transaction holds, privacy, and supervision pertaining to senior or vulnerable adults.
- Counseling LPL operations and financial professionals on issues arising from investors' use of trusts, retirement accounts, powers of attorney, designation of beneficiaries, and appointment of custodians. Also provides advice on the impact of probate, divorce, separation, guardianship and other legal proceedings involving account holders.
- Counseling LPL operations and financial professionals on issues arising from laws and regulations protecting senior and vulnerable investors, uniform gifts to minors, and reporting requirements of state and local jurisdictions with regard to exploitation of vulnerable investors.
Associate Counsel (Hybrid) | AP Wireless Infrastructure Partners LLC
We're seeking a driven Associate Counsel to join our team. This role will be responsible for offering support to the legal and commercial team through the analysis of contracts, documents, draft elaboration, and sending extrajudicial notifications. Responsibilities include reviewing, drafting and negotiating contracts, analyzing leases, preparing documents, supporting the management of existing properties, managing litigation and supporting and advising on general company mattes. The position will ensure the legality of commercial transactions and advise our company on legal rights and duties.
Responsibilities:
- Prepare, draft, review and negotiate redlines with respect to all documents required for closing of various real estate and land use transactions (i.e. leases, easements, assignments, amendments, fee simple purchase agreements).
- Provide guidance and support to Sales and Site acquisitions teams in pursuit of new transactions.
- Provide guidance and support to Property Management teams who manage existing sites and assets.
- Analyze new potential site acquisitions from a risk management perspective in conjunction with underwriters as well as revenue enhancement opportunities for existing portfolio.
Corporate Counsel | Avidity Biosciences, Inc.
Responsibilities:
- Provide clear and business-savvy strategic and legal and business advice to key stakeholders across Avidity business functions
- Maintain strong relationships with business clients to understand business requirements and ensure contractual terms align with the company's priorities and policies
- Draft and negotiate a variety of biotech contracts and related documents including clinical trial, sponsored research, material transfer, ICFs, and manufacturing agreements, and licenses, as well as complex and non-standard agreements supporting R&D, Business Development, and other functions
- Address a broad array of legal matters to support the company's business, working closely with other members of the Legal team, as well as internal business clients across functions
- Collaborate cross-functionally to help create and implement procedures to track compliance with contractual obligations under licenses and strategic agreements
- Actively and effectively partner with Avidity stakeholders across all phases of research, collaborations, clinical, manufacturing, and development to build value for patients, shareholders and employees
Associate General Counsel | San Diego Padres
The Associate General Counsel position is a unique opportunity for a detail oriented and experienced attorney to provide hands on legal support to various departments within the San Diego Padres, with a heavy focus on contract drafting and negotiating. This is a Full-time, in-person role, reporting to the General Counsel. A Part-Time position may be considered based on experience.
Responsibilities:
- Review, draft, negotiate and manage agreements, primarily for the sponsorship and event departments
- Review and negotiate third party agreements, such as supply chain agreements, service agreements, software licenses, purchase agreements, rental agreements, construction agreements, confidentiality agreements
- Draft new template agreements as needed and maintain existing template agreements up to date
- Provide ancillary support required for the successful execution of events, such as drafting waivers, sweepstakes rules, music licenses and insurance reporting
Privacy Counsel | Vuori, Inc
In this role, you will oversee and manage the company’s legal matters related to data privacy, security, and technology contracts. You will ensure compliance with all relevant privacy regulations and expertly negotiate technology-related agreements to safeguard the company’s interests. Acting as a strategic advisor to various departments, including technology and e-commerce, you will provide essential guidance on data protection and technology usage. Every day, you will strengthen Vuori’s core value of maintaining great relationships with its consumers and employees by ensuring responsible governance of their personal information and upholding their data privacy rights.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with the VP, Associate General Counsel- Commercial & Privacy to develop, evolve and scale Vuori’s Privacy Program.
- Develop the strategic framework and approach for technology-related projects and contracts
- Draft, review, negotiate, and complete technology agreements and related documents.
- Manage risks, mitigation strategies, regulatory and contractual compliance, and assist with operational matters.
- Define, develop, maintain, and implement policies and processes for effective privacy practices.
Associate General Counsel | YMCA
The Associate General Counsel is responsible for leading corporate strategic and tactical legal initiatives. The Associate General Counsel provides senior management with effective advice on company strategies and their implementation, manages the legal function, obtains and oversees the work of outside counsel. The Associate General Counsel is directly involved in labor and employment law disputes, customer contract review, real estate contract review, and complex business transactions.
Responsibilities:
- Participates in the definition and development of corporate policies, procedures, and programs. Ensures the company receives continuing counsel and guidance on legal matters and on legal implications for company matters
- Perform legal research and provide general support to organization to various departments, such as but not limited to HR related matters, customer contract interpretation/implementation, inter-company agreements and corporate matters
- Works in key areas of the business, assist with reviewing/drafting/amending a range of commercial/business contracts (customers, suppliers and services providers)
Employment Counsel | ResMed
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced in-house Employment Counsel to join our legal team. The successful candidate will provide expert legal advice and support on a wide range of employment-related matters, ensuring compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, with a particular emphasis on California employment law. This role requires a deep understanding of employment law, excellent analytical skills, and the ability to work collaboratively with various departments.
Responsibilities:
- Provide legal counsel on employment-related issues, including hiring, termination, discrimination, harassment, wage and hour laws, and employee benefits, with a focus on California employment law.
- Draft, review, and update employment contracts, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local laws.
- Conduct internal investigations related to employee complaints and workplace issues.
- Represent the company in employment-related arbitration, and mediation.
Head of Intellectual Property | ResMed
As the Head of Intellectual Property, you will be responsible for safeguarding ResMed's innovative effort and maximizing the value of ResMed's global intellectual property portfolio. You will lead the global intellectual property team, setting a clear vision for the future and empowering a high-performing global team to execute that strategy. You will liaise with senior executives to understand and enable their business goals and provide strategic legal counsel and support for all IP-related activities, including patent portfolio strategy, licensing, litigation, trademark management, and standards body involvement.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee and strategically manage ResMed's worldwide intellectual property portfolio, encompassing patents and trademarks.
- Lead and mentor a high-performing global team of IP professionals and outside counsel, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
- Develop and implement a comprehensive IP strategy that aligns with ResMed's corporate objectives, ensuring the development and protection of high-quality intellectual property.
Deputy County Counsel-Employment Litigation | County of San Diego
The County of San Diego's Office of County Counsel has an immediate vacancy for a Deputy County Counsel – Employment Litigation to render legal services and perform legal assignments in an exciting and rewarding position. This position acts as an advocate on behalf of the County of San Diego and supports the County’s Office of Labor Standards and Enforcement in accepting allegations of wage theft complaints for civil enforcement to help wage theft victims.
Responsibilities:
- Acts as a legal advisor for County departments, boards and commissions, school districts, or special districts as assigned by County Counsel.
- May prosecute and defend civil and administrative actions on behalf of officers and employees of assigned County departments or districts.
- Performs legal research on all aspects of local government law.
- Prepares and renders verbal or written opinions concerning department powers, functions, jurisdiction, authority, procedures, and matters of civil law.
- Drafts memoranda, correspondence, ordinances, resolutions, and contracts.
- Acts as legal advisor and represents County departments or districts on a variety of legal issues.
Director, Assistant General Counsel | Resilience
A Computer & Network Security Company is looking for an attorney with significant commercial contracting and deal management experience in the life sciences industry to support its diverse array of transactions with customers, strategic partners, innovators, and academic institutions. Key to this role are strong fundamentals in the areas of contract drafting, negotiation and deal management; an ability to analyze and synthesize complex matters into concise verbal and written communications; and the provision of strategic and timely advice to key decision-makers. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in negotiating pharma or biopharma manufacturing services and supply agreements and a working understanding of one or more of the following modalities: gene therapies, cell therapies, nucleic acids, vaccines and biologics.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as legal counsel to Resilience's Commercial Teams, helping to build and sustain Resilience's relationships with customers, strategic collaborators and technology partners.
- Work closely with the heads of Resilience's various franchises to structure and negotiate agreements for the manufacture and supply of material for research, clinical trials and commercial sale.
- Draft, review and advise on all matter of business agreements relating to the establishment, expansion or change in customer relationships, such as customer proposals, letters of intent, term sheets, project agreements and change orders.
Senior Legal Counsel - Privacy | Databricks
You will initially report to the Managing Legal Director of Product and Privacy and work closely with the Legal Director of Privacy in building out our privacy team. As a member of the Privacy team, you will provide legal counsel to several business partners as well as help support the privacy compliance program for A Big Data Analytics Company.
Responsibilities:
- Counsel and advise the commercial team on data protection-related provisions in commercial contracts, including updating templates for and negotiating data processing addendums and business associate agreements.
- Partner with marketing, sales, go-to-market and procurement teams to assess potential privacy and security risks and regulatory requirements, including lead generation and marketing outreach activities, developing and providing training.
- Support privacy program compliance, including data subject rights requests, data inventory, privacy by design, and help operate and improve the effectiveness of critical privacy compliance processes
- Facilitate Privacy by Design by working with key business stakeholders to complete Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) and performing the initial review of completed PIAs and Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) for new processing activities, IT changes, projects, and data ingests
Corporate Counsel (Remote) | Plaza Home Mortgage
The Corporate Counsel is responsible for assisting the General Counsel with litigation, contract review, marketing material review, advising on human resource, loss mitigation, title, regulatory compliance, and servicing issues. This is an exempt position and falls under the direct supervision of the General Counsel.
Responsibilities:
- Review legal blogs, remain abreast with legal changes, court opinions, and pass on to interested parties
- Prep, consult, advise regarding cyber incident response and/or PII exposure.
- Assist in advising the company with its BCDR efforts
- Confer, revise as well as draft amendments and suggestions to Marketing on all published marketing materials
- Confer, revise as well as draft amendments and suggestions to Training on all company-wide training materials
- Draft, review and prep various organizational policies and procedures
Deputy County Counsel | County of San Diego
The County of San Diego's Office of County Counsel has an immediate vacancy for a Deputy County Counsel – Advisory Option to render legal services and perform legal assignments in an exciting and rewarding position. This position acts as an advocate on behalf of the County of San Diego, its departments, employees, boards and commissions, as well as special districts by advising clients and representing on various transactional matters. The current vacancy is for an advisory attorney who can provide day-to-day advice regarding public contracts, leases, affordable housing projects, and general governance matters (e.g., the Brown Act, California Public Records Act, conflicts of interest, political activities, and record retention).
- May prosecute and defend civil and administrative actions on behalf of officers and employees of assigned County departments or districts.
- Performs legal research on all aspects of local government law.
- Prepares and renders verbal or written opinions concerning department powers, functions, jurisdiction, authority, procedures, and matters of civil law.
- Drafts memoranda, correspondence, ordinances, resolutions, and contracts.
- Acts as legal advisor and represents County departments or districts on a variety of legal issues.
In-House Counsel | General Atomics
Under the advisement of senior legal counsel, this position:
- Provides routine legal advice and service concerning rights, obligations, and privileges of the corporation including patent and other intellectual property matters.
- Negotiates and prepares a variety of contractual documents including leases, licenses, purchases, sales, real estate, employment, insurance, mergers, acquisitions and related matters and remains current on legislative issues, statutes, decisions, laws, regulations and ordinances.
- Examines various documents and data and provides counsel to management on best courses of action.
- Represents the corporation with outside parties and may also act as agent for the corporation in various transactions. May manage outside counsel in both litigation and transactional matters.
Senior Counsel, Regulatory & Product | Maven
We’re looking for a Senior Counsel, Regulatory & Product to lead our cross-functional regulatory efforts and support the rapid growth we are experiencing in the US and abroad. This position is critical to our ability to scale Maven’s unique virtual care model while adhering to applicable regulations. We need a forward-thinking, collaborative and optimistic partner who can help us solve the many complex issues that surface working across different healthcare populations while managing hyper-growth. We also need someone who can roll their sleeves up and assist with a wide range of work, including commercial, employment, and other work, relating to the product offerings they will be supporting.
Responsibilities:
- Advising on all aspects of US healthcare laws and regulations, state laws, and trends, including but not limited to Medicaid, state regulations, and scope of practice issues related to Maven’s products
- Serving as the primary contact to cross functional internal teams, including the clinical, operations, and payor teams
- Supporting our affiliated provider entities on matters related to licensure, credentialing, and reporting, as applicable
- Partner with clinical compliance team on requirements, audits, and regulatory matters
Executive Director & Product Counsel | Avidity
Serve as lead counsel for Avidity's late-stage pipeline programs approaching regulatory filings and potential commercialization.
- Provide legal advice and counseling on a broad set of healthcare, commercial and general corporate topics in support of preparations for potential future commercial product launches, including but not limited to pre-approval activities, marketing strategies, promotional tactics and materials, advertising campaigns and programs, disease awareness activities, collaborating with/supporting patient advocacy groups, healthcare professional (HCP) engagements, advisory boards and interactions with others in a position to influence healthcare decisions (e.g., payers, distributors, etc.).
- Serve as the primary legal support and contact for the Global Commercial and Global Medical Affairs teams for commercialization activities.
- Advise clients on issues related to advertising and promotion of pharmaceutical products (including FDA regulations, Anti-Kickback Statute, False Claims Act, OIG Guidance, PhRMA Code, Sunshine Act, Food and Drug Cosmetic Act, Medicaid Best Price, etc.).
