Commercial Attorney

Elevate is recruiting a Commercial Attorney for a full-time position based in our Centre of Excellence in Cracow, Poland. This role involves working closely with in-house legal departments of our Customers and their internal business customers.

This position gives the opportunity to work in a dynamic and highly professional environment, working directly with a diverse and wide range of internal and external stakeholders to deliver innovative, holistic and commercial solutions.

Commercial Attorney provides deal support and participates in projects to improve our customers' contractual infrastructures, workflow, and processes. This role involves working independently on assigned matters but also working collaboratively with other members of the Elevate team, delivering high quality services in a responsive manner.

The responsibilities of the Commercial Attorney are the following:

• Provide support to the senior team members in the day-to-day running of a wide range of projects and matters.
• Be trusted to execute delegated elements of matters.
• Understand and contribute to the delivery of exceptional customer service.
• Build positive relationships with colleagues and a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Help to ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with relevant regulatory requirements, internal policies, and customer instructions.
• Deliver contract services to Elevate customers.
• Review, negotiate and manage vendor and merchant contracts on a global basis.
• Intake, triage, assign, prepare, review, collect signatures and data and store corporate contracts.
• Work closely with the Customer legal team, procurement and other business units to complete requests independently and within relevant SLAs.
• Set up, monitor, and update project plans.
• Undertake research projects.
• Assist with day-to-day file management, client reporting and billing.
• Handling mid to high complexity work, using independent judgement.
• Provide support and technical guidance to Junior Attorneys.

Experience:

• 4-6 years of relevant experience in transactional contracts support, reviewing and interpreting complex commercial contracts including procurement, sales agreements, NDAs, DPAs, software license agreements, SaaS agreements, other commercial agreements and real estate agreements.
• Experience conducting simple to complex legal research and memorandum drafting.
• Excellent track record in previous client support/customer service engagements.

Skills for Success:

• Organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to prioritize and coordinate multiple project activities and meeting work demands for multiple customers.
• Detail-oriented but possessing the ability to see the big picture.
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative, courteous working relationships with others.
• Have a sense of urgency, self-motivated, and accountable.
• Resilience under pressure and the desire to meet or exceed objectives and deadlines.
• Comfortable and capable of working proactively in a global organization.
• Good written and oral communication skills.
• High levels of IT skills and competence.
• Strong desire to learn new skills.

Qualifications:

• Law Degree.
• Professional proficiency in English.

Company Information

Elevate is a law company. We provide software and services for the intersection of business and law. Our legal, business, and technology professionals offer practical ways for global law departments and law firms to improve efficiency, quality, and business outcomes.

Our most recent achievements and distinctions include:

• Certified as a Great Place to Work® 2025 in the US, UK, India, and Philippines.
• For the ninth consecutive year, in 2024, Chambers & Partners named Elevate as a Top global services provider, ranking us as Band 1 (highest ranking) in all applicable categories (Contract Lifecycle Management, Litigation Services, and Flexible Legal Staffing) and as an Alternative Legal Service Providers in Asia-Pacific
• For the fourth year in a row, Elevate’s integrated law firm has been designated as a top law firm in Commercial Litigation in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers/US News & World Report Best Law Firms
• Newsweek awarded Elevate highest rating in the annual ‘America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity’ List and ‘America’s Greatest Workplace for 2024’ list
• Elevate was named a top ALSP in Asia by Thomson Reuters’ Asian Legal Business in 2024
• Co-winner, 2022 Financial Times Collaborative Innovation Award for Industry Impact.
• Winner, Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, and 2016
• Named by ALM Intelligence as the only Pacesetter in the Legal category in its 2021-2022 Legal Department Legal Operations report
• The first non-lawyer-owned global legal services provider to receive an Alternative Business Structure (ABS) License to provide legal services in the US

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All qualified applicants will be considered for employment and will be treated equally during the process, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.