Legal Specialist, Real Estate

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Position Purpose:

This position provides professional legal support in all areas of real estate, construction, property management, and store operations. Depending on the assigned responsibilities, it may involve transactional/contractual, regulatory, financial, and/or litigation support. The Legal Specialist will draft legal and business communication, participate in the administration and negotiation of contracts, handle general file and database management, gather documents and respond to litigation and transactional requests, assist with regulatory filings, manage financial matters, and respond to customer and store legal inquiries by involving the proper legal department.  The Legal Specialist will also support all aspects of real estate transactions from initial negotiation through closing.  Frequent coordination and collaboration with outside counsel on multiple matters will be required.  The Legal Specialist will also provide ongoing support to store operations leadership on regulatory and other matters.  As needed, the Legal Specialist may also provide support in connection with the management of special projects, other department or company initiatives, and other matters as required.

Key Responsibilities:

• Handle day-to-day administration of all real estate, construction, property management, and store operations matters within area of responsibility, including financial aspects of such administration
• Draft, analyze, interpret and negotiate a variety of agreements including letters of intent, NDAs, license agreements, easements, access agreements, leases, consents, waivers, purchase and sale agreements, REAs, estoppels and SNDAs
• Coordinate with outside counsel and business partners
• Manage regulatory matters from intake through resolution
• Answer calls from store, district, and regional management and dispense legal advice commensurate with experience (i.e., on matters not requiring attorney input)
• Identify potential legal, business, and operational issues, and work with internal business clients to develop a strategy for resolution
• Conduct legal research and summarize contract provisions, laws, cases and other regulations as requested
• General file/database management - maintain complete and accurate electronic and paper files for all assigned matters, and manage financial matters relating thereto
• Management of special projects, other department or company initiatives, and other tasks as assigned by supervisor

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• Position reports to Manager, Corporate Counsel, Senior Corporate Counsel, or Assistant General Counsel

•    No direct reports

Travel Requirements:

• Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Paralegal certificate from an ABA-approved program
• 7+ years of commercial real estate and/or store operations experience
• Experience with lease abstraction
• Customer service experience
• Legally eligible to work in the United States

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a associate's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education:

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 3

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Excellent organizational skills, with ability to prioritize assignments and manage time efficiently
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with both internal and external business partners, as well as regulatory agencies
• Strong drafting and negotiating skills with a comprehensive knowledge of standard real estate transactional documents and provisions
• Interest and curiosity in subject matter and willingness to learn new things
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to effectively manage outside counsel
• Ability to multi-task with high level of attention to detail and accuracy
• Analytical skills
• Team oriented with a high degree of personal and professional integrity and ethics
• High level of basic computer skills (MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word)