Corporate Lawyer

Summary

Join Emerge LLP, a law firm reimagining legal services for startups and entrepreneurs, as a curious and entrepreneurial startup lawyer. This role involves drafting contracts, providing legal opinions, and acting as general corporate counsel. You'll work collaboratively to determine your preferred average work hours. The position requires strong legal, analytical, and drafting skills, experience with complex legal agreements, and the ability to provide counsel on new product developments. Remote work within Canada is possible, and membership in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario is mandatory.

Requirements

• Possess a growth mindset: be agile, resourceful, and willing to continuously challenge yourself to learn and grow
• Demonstrate curiosity for digging into how technical systems, services and infrastructure work to answer targeted questions on legal problems
• Ability to recognize and understand multiple perspectives in a situation without getting blocked by analysis paralysis
• Have experience drafting and negotiating complex legal agreements, such as strategic partnerships, goods and services, software and other licensing arrangements, including those related to SaaS and other cloud-based services, API, SDK and other technology-related offerings
• Have experience providing legal counsel on new product developments, including drafting terms of service and associated policies
• Possess strong technical legal, analytical and drafting skills combined with the ability to use logic to solve complex problems, excellent organizational skills and rigorous attention to detail
• Have the flexibility to work remotely within Canada
• Be in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario

Responsibilities

• Advising on, drafting, and reviewing commercial contracts on a range of matters including standard terms and conditions, routine supply and distribution agreements, service agreements
• Providing legal advice to lawyers, clerks and clients on a wide range of corporate and commercial matters
• Assisting with development and maintaining corporate and commercial precedents and other tools used in legal practice
• Preparing, writing, and editing a range of client facing blog posts and articles
• Developing corporate and commercial legal education materials for internal and external purposes

Benefits

Flexibility to work remotely within Canada