Senior Legal Counsel

Job: Strategist, Specialist Legal Counsel VIDuration: 4+ MonthsLocation: Palo Alto, CAPay Rate: $90.00- $100.00/hr on w2Job Description:Recognized authority internally and externally on leading-edge technologies, theories, or techniques. Provides innovative solutions to complex and critically sensitive issues affecting multiple disciplines and work groups. Determines and pursues courses of action essential in accomplishing objectives. Integrates advanced technology, theories, or techniques that have a significant continued impact across disciplines and business units. Serves as organization spokesperson on specialized projects or programs. Champions large projects that affect the company's long-range goals and objectives. Provides mentoring and guidance to lower-level employees.ResponsibilitiesLeads the overall legal strategies and risks by providing highly specialized legal expertise in one or more areas of strategic importance that significantly impact a region, global business, or the entire organization.Plans and facilitates the training and mentoring strategy to educate senior managers, team members, and clients on complex topics within a specific legal concentration.Leads the resolution of highly complex legal, regulatory, and business issues requiring highly in-depth knowledge and judgment within a specialty area.Acts as a thought leader within an area of specialization by networking effectively to share subject matter expertise and exerting influence across a broad cross-section of the organization.Exerts influence on external industry counsels, policies, and regulatory bodies in the area of specialization.Education and Experience RequiredAdvanced university degree in law (e.g., JD or LLB); additional advanced degree relevant to the specialty preferred.Meets local legal license requirements.Typically 12 years of commercial legal experience at a law firm or in-house.Extensive national and possibly international experience leading multiple, highly complex, strategic, specialty law projects, issues, and transactions.Knowledge and SkillsRecognized authority on practical and academic knowledge within a specific legal concentration, and broad internal recognition as a subject matter expert and thought leader in one or more sub-areas within the specific legal concentration.Advanced mastery of how to operate successfully in the international legal environment for the specific legal concentration.Mastery in negotiating or advising the most senior representatives of external and internal organizations on highly complex, high-impact legal matters in a specialty.Excellent presentation, facilitation, networking, and influence skills.