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Associate Attorney (Corporate)

(
November 20, 2022
)

Founders embraces diversity and equal opportunity as a cornerstone to its continued growth. We are committed to building a legal team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Founders is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Job Overview

Founders Law LLC is looking for a diligent and driven attorney with 1-2 years of experience for our growing corporate practice, which advises entrepreneurs, startups, and venture capital funds as outside counsel. The successful candidate will share the entrepreneurial spirit of our clients and thrive in our growing firm that acts and feels like a startup itself. The position is remote while our new location is being built (available February 2023), and then will be hybrid.

Position Highlights
  • Startup clients are interesting, high-growth, and constantly creative.
  • The role emphasizes long-term development, simultaneously building hard skills (research,
    drafting) and soft skills (business development, negotiation, client counseling).
  • Unique compensation structure emphasizes incentive compensation for hours worked and
    business generated.

Responsibilities and Duties
  • Research legal and commercial issues for client deliverables.
  • Communicate with clients to address open issues and tasks.
  • Review and analyze agreements of varying complexity.
  • Prepare initial drafts of agreements, consents and other documents based on precedent.

Qualifications
  • Minimum 1 year of transactional legal experience as a licensed attorney.
  • Excellent communication, organization, and document management skills.
  • Willingness to learn technical, legal, and business skills on the job.
  • Interest in and passion for entrepreneurship required.
  • Prior experience with startups is a plus, but not required.

Interested applicants should submit a resume and cover letter to careers@founderslaw.com.