Senior Attorney - AFF

Job Summary

Location: Detroit, MI

Provides legal services across a high volume of commercial and transactional matters, owning them end-to-end on a lean, fast-moving team. Has a broad business perspective and applies this perspective to legal analysis and solutions to meet objectives. Works with significant autonomy and coordinates across business and legal functions to deliver results. May be called to represent the interests of the Company in matters including commercial contracts and transactions, business development, finance, litigation, renewable energy, and decarbonization.

The successful candidate will demonstrate an unwavering commitment to high performance, high integrity, and sound risk management. This individual exercises independent legal judgment, partners commercially with the business, and safeguards the Company's interests with discretion and rigor.

Key Accountabilities

• Independently manages a high volume of commercial contracts and transactions, reducing load across the legal function
• Owns and efficiently resolves increasingly complex and sensitive matters
• Researches legal issues, drafts and negotiates legal documents, and effectively manages outside counsel
• Provides work guidance to other professional, paraprofessional, or support staff to develop solutions to business problems
• Negotiates complex commercial transactions directly with counterparties
• Exercises independent legal judgment, advising business partners on complex issues and risk
• Works with minimum supervision and collaborates across all levels of the business
• Handles confidential and sensitive matters with discretion
• Performs all other related duties as assigned

Minimum Education & Experience Requirements

• Graduate of accredited law school and admitted to the state bar of permanent residence within a reasonable time, with at least seven (7) years of legal experience.
• Ability to work in a team and/or matrix structure, supporting multiple clients, procedures, and policy
• Ability to cope with multiple demands from superiors, peers, and subordinates in a positive and even-handed fashion, displaying a calm demeanor under pressure
• Competent with prioritizing and managing multiple tasks, issues or projects that may include high-visibility initiatives and require innovation, teamwork, and planning
• Initiate new ideas and approaches, challenging orthodox practices and approaches with reasonable and sound alternatives

Other Qualifications

Preferred:

• Exhibits exceptional verbal and non-verbal communication, written and presentation skills
• Possesses analytic and problem-solving skills consistent with the ability to identify key issues from a broad range of alternatives and recommend optimal solutions for various situations
• Experience supporting M&A, due diligence, or corporation transactions
• Supply chain, procurement, or vendor contracting experience
• Experience drafting, structuring, and negotiating commercial energy transactions in renewable natural gas, renewable energy, decarbonization, or other energy-related business activities
• Comfortable evaluating and responsibly deploying AI and legal technology tools to improve efficiency while maintaining accuracy, confidentiality, and professional responsibility

Physical Demands & Working Conditions

The physical demands characterized here epitomize those that must be met by an employee to properly perform the integral functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. In order to properly perform the integral functions of this job, the employee is required to:

• Occasionally stand or walk and stoop or kneel.
• Frequently sit.
• Talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use wrists, hands and/or fingers in a repetitive motion; and reach with hands and arms extensively.
• Occasionally lift objects of up to 10 pounds in weight.
• Use computers with exposure to video display terminals; and some repetitive motion associated with data entry, the use of a computer mouse, and while using other office equipment.
• Possess the following vision requirements: close, color, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
• Perform job duties primarily in a work from home capacity and periodically from a climate-controlled office environment, with a moderate noise level.

Additional Information

Incumbents may engage in all or some combination of the activities and accountabilities, and utilize a variety of the competencies cited in this description depending upon the organization and role to which they are assigned. This description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by incumbents in this job. It is not intended as an all-inclusive list of accountabilities or responsibilities, nor is it intended to limit the rights of supervisors or management representatives to assign, direct and control the work of employees under their supervision.