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Company Overview:
We are currently seeking an experienced Litigation Attorney to play a critical role in managing, resolving, and avoiding disputes. The successful candidate will handle a range of complex commercial and regulatory litigation, including high-profile matters involving significant financial or reputational risk to the companies.
Responsibilities:
• Manage the companies’ activities in court and arbitration, including litigation and settlement strategies, and managing outside counsel.
• Serve as a strategic issue spotter for the business, identifying risks and opportunities early, positioning issues favorably, objectively and accurately assessing strengths and weaknesses, and minimizing or resolving disputes where possible.
• Spearhead initiatives to prevent litigation against the companies, including by identifying structural and process improvements and providing professional training on risk mitigation across the organization.
• Assist with internal or government investigations.
• To the extent desired, work across the companies’ Legal Department to gain exposure to contracts and subcontracts, corporate governance issues, and related work.
Qualifications:
• Litigation Expertise – At least three years of litigation experience, including experience assessing legal, reputational, and business risk in difficult and high-stakes situations under acute time pressure.
• Leadership Capacity – A proven leader with the demonstrated ability to coordinate strategy and drive effective collaboration among senior executives, project teams, and outside counsel.
• Mission Orientation – A dedicated team member with passion to continue the success of a longstanding institution and the mentality to lead solutions to the most challenging disputes a multi-billion-dollar for-profit enterprise faces.
• Intellectual Horsepower and Curiosity – A quick study who can climb a learning curve with speed, who provides forward-thinking and creative assessment of risk and opportunities, and who continuously strives for professional growth.
• Virginia Bar Required
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