Legal Counsel

The role of Counsel, Legal is a full-time attorney position within Asurion’s Legal Team and has responsibility for matters relating to our partner contracts, compliance, litigation, and corporate and regulatory related matters. This role requires facilitating discussions designed to consistently provide cross-functional communication and guidance for activities requiring legal support.

The ideal candidate will be a dynamic leader, with excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills, strong time- and project-management and prioritization skills, and prior corporate legal experience.

ESSENTIAL JOB SKILLS/DUTIES:

• Negotiates and drafts client partner agreements.
• Manages all required franchise disclosures and compliance issues.
• Negotiates and drafts franchise agreements, area development agreements and national account participation agreements with franchisees.
• Manages litigation and mitigates risk exposure for disputes.
• Works to support internal client needs and to act as a liaison; brokers creative solutions for relevant stakeholders.
• Develops a thorough understanding of Asurion business, processes and goals to provide innovative legal solutions that solve unique or challenging problems.
• Establishes strong collaborative relationships with cross functional teams, including legal, underwriting, finance, tax, treasury, comp, and client services.
• Exhibits strong drafting, negotiating, collaboration and communication skills.
• Demonstrates good analytical skills and judgment to evaluate factual and qualitative information in complicated or novel situations.
• Acts as a trusted advisor and leader to drive results and complete projects as needed.
• Actively seeks operational understanding and implications of initiatives and implements process improvements to streamline support and complete successful transactions.

SKILLS:

• Demonstrates the ability to effectively understand, consider and address the internal client or business while mitigating risk exposure.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Must possess strong judgment, confidence, collaborative problem-solving skills, and ability to spot potential issues quickly.
• Must be able to independently handle a variety and number of legal matters in timely fashion with minimal supervision.
• Exceptional ability to schedule and prioritize work and deliverables to ensure on-time response to a large variety of changing demands/requests/requirements.
• Highly organized and driven to thoroughly understand the issue and the possible implications of legal guidance.
   

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school and admission to the bar in Tennessee and/or Florida bar
• 6-8+ years of relevant experience
• Experience in franchise law in-house or with a law firm