Corporate Counsel

Job title:

Company Counsel

Firm

Turner Development

Job description

Division: Canada – Toronto

Undertaking Location(s): Toronto, ON M4C 1M5 CAN

Minimal Years Expertise: 6
Journey Concerned: 10-20%
Job Sort: Common
Job Classification: Skilled
Training: Regulation Diploma
Job Household: Insurance coverage and Claims
Compensation: Salaried Exempt

The Firm
Turner is a North America-based, worldwide development companies firm and is a number one builder in various market segments. The corporate has earned recognition for endeavor giant and complicated initiatives, fostering innovation, embracing rising applied sciences, and making a distinction for his or her purchasers, workers and neighborhood. With a employees of over 10,000 workers, the corporate completes $15 billion of development on 1,500 initiatives every year. Turner provides purchasers the accessibility and help of a neighborhood agency with the steadiness and assets of a multi-national group.

Place Description:
Present day-to-day in-house counsel, steering and help associated to contracts/development regulation and different authorized issues for assigned Enterprise Models and/or areas.

Important Duties & Key Obligations:

• Present authorized recommendation and danger assessments throughout a broad vary of authorized issues associated to contracts/development regulation.
• Advise enterprise companions on authorized, contractual and danger issues impacting their areas of duty.
• Analyze and summarize authorized paperwork and complicated enterprise transactions and contracts.
• Anticipate and mitigate potential authorized issues involving the assigned Enterprise Models.
• Conduct and compile analysis, keep/replace organized authorized due diligence paperwork.
• Overview proprietor contracts and help Enterprise Unit leaders within the bidding/negotiation course of.
• Overview routine project-related agreements (e.g. BIM releases, crane swing agreements, title firm deliverables, lender consents.).
• Analyze change orders and waivers/releases ready by others for authorized dangers.
• Accomplice with lead counsel within the administration and backbone of contested issues.
• Handle litigation and company disclosures for RFQ/RFP responses.
• Accomplice with the Company Secretary concerning authorizing resolutions to accompany bids.
• Preserve and make the most of greatest practices with respect to contract phrases.
• Ship authorized coaching to the Enterprise Models on a wide range of authorized matters, together with undertaking particular necessities and ethics/compliance.
• Develop and supply enter to seize market tendencies and repeatedly enhance processes.
• Different actions, duties, and tasks as assigned.

{Qualifications}:

• Bachelor of Legal guidelines (LLB) or Juris Doctorate (JD) diploma and a lawyer in good standing with the Regulation Society of Ontario.
• Minimal of 6 years’ post-call expertise with an emphasis on development regulation, or an equal mixture of training, coaching and/or expertise.
• Workout routines impartial judgment and discretion with means to establish issues and provoke corrective motion.
• Self-starter, with means to prioritize a number of duties and ship top quality work on tight deadlines.
• Preserve information of business greatest practices and relevant laws affecting operations.
• Data of the Development Act (Ontario) and/or builders lien laws in different Canadian provinces thought-about an asset.
• Adaptable and versatile to function with minimal course and little or no supervision whereas working in advanced and altering atmosphere.
• Confirmed written and verbal communication talents with emphasis on drawback fixing and negotiation, with means to elucidate advanced authorized ideas to workers and employees in any respect ranges.
• Workforce participant with glorious interpersonal abilities.
• Proficiency with laptop purposes, together with Microsoft Workplace suite, and varied authorized case administration programs.
• Capability to learn, perceive, and interpret contracts and insurance coverage paperwork.
• Demonstrated interpersonal abilities and talent to work with employees in any respect ranges, each inside and exterior.
• Capability to journey.

Bodily Calls for:
The bodily calls for described listed below are consultant of those who have to be met by an worker to efficiently carry out the important features of this job. Affordable lodging could also be made to allow people with disabilities to carry out the important features. Whereas performing the duties of this job, the staff frequently required to speak or hear. The worker continuously is required to take a seat; use palms to finger, deal with, or really feel; and attain with palms and arms. The worker is sometimes required to face and stroll. The worker should sometimes carry and/or transfer as much as 25 kilos. Particular imaginative and prescient talents required by this job embody shut imaginative and prescient, distance imaginative and prescient, peripheral imaginative and prescient, depth notion, and talent to regulate focus. Worker should have the ability to journey through a number of modes of transportation.

Work Setting:
The work atmosphere traits described listed below are consultant of these an worker encounters whereas performing the important features of the job. Affordable lodging could also be made to allow people with disabilities to carry out important features. Regularly this job is carried out in an workplace atmosphere with regular workplace working circumstances, freed from unpleasant parts. On an occasional foundation, the worker could journey to and work at a job web site location or consumer workplace location and be positioned in a trailer or different short-term construction. The noise on this work atmosphere could also be reasonably loud.

Turner is an Equal Alternative Employer -minorities/females/veterans/people with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identification.

VEVRAA Federal Contractor

Anticipated wage

Location

Toronto, ON

Job date

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 05:27:13 GMT

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