Contracts Counsel

Description

At Corient, we help high- and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families to enjoy a full life, while enabling them to preserve their wealth for future generations, and provide for the people, causes and communities they care about. We focus on exceeding expectations, simplifying lives, and establishing legacies that last for generations.
We are always looking for talented and motivated individuals to join our team. If you want to work for a company that values your contributions and supports your growth, we would like to meet you.
Location: Miami, FL
Overview: We are seeking a smart, hardworking attorney to join our Legal Team and provide end-to-end legal support to our contract lifecycle management (CLM) process, from drafting, interpretation, and negotiation through execution, renewal, termination, consolidation, and assignment of a broad range of vendor and commercial contracts. As a key member of our lean legal team, you will play a critical role in supporting our fast-growing firm to manage and optimize our CLM tool to streamline workflows, manage templates, and maintain accurate contract records. You will report to a senior attorney on our legal team.
This is a full-time, exempt position at our headquarters in Miami’s Brickell financial district. We believe an in-office presence is key to building our business, driving high performance and creating a team-based culture. Accordingly, you must be willing to join us in the office during the work week. This is a great opportunity to join a supportive, dynamic and friendly legal team at a fast-growing firm and to make a meaningful impact. Come join us on our journey to become the world’s preeminent wealth management firm.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drafting & Negotiating: Draft, review, and negotiate a variety of commercial contracts with vendors, business partners, and other third parties, including non-disclosure agreements, master services agreements, statements of work, order forms, change orders, amendments, terminations, and assignments.
• Risk Mitigation: Identify and flag potential risks, inconsistencies, or gaps in contract language and propose practical, business-competent solutions.
• Research & Analysis:
• • Conduct legal research and analysis to support contract interpretation and business decision-making.
  • Prepare contract summaries and executive summaries for other members of the Legal team and key stakeholders.
• Contract Optimization: Collaborate with key internal and external stakeholders to optimize contracts from M&As, including consolidating contracts as well as drafting contract terminations, consolidations, and assignments and driving them to execution.
• Manage Legal Workflow for Contracts End-to-End:
• • Organize, manage, update, and optimize templates, playbooks, and processes.
  • Create additional templates, playbooks, and processes to enhance efficiency and customer service.
  • Maintain contracts tracker to ensure timely completion of contract reviews per agreed SLAs.
  • Prepare contracts for execution using DocuSign or other similar solution.
  • Maintain a comprehensive database of executed contracts and successfully transition it to our CLM tool, including ensuring appropriate access controls and useful metadata.
  • In collaboration with other key internal and external stakeholders, drive implementation of new workflows and additional functionality in our CLM.
• Track tasks and timelines for all projects to ensure timely delivery.
• Provide a high-quality service level to all internal and external constituents ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and consistency.
• Establish positive and productive relationships with internal stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Assist other members of the Legal team on a variety of tasks, projects, processes, and initiatives, as requested.
• Perform other work and projects, as assigned.

Qualifications and Experience:

• J.D. from an accredited law school and a member in good standing of a U.S. state bar.
• 3-5 years of experience in a similar role.
• Extensive legal contract drafting, review, and negotiation skills, with the ability to identify risks and propose effective solutions, particularly with enterprise contracts, including technology and software contracts
• Demonstrated experience managing CLMs and driving technology implementation is a significant plus.
• In-house legal experience is a plus.

Competencies and Characteristics:

• Substantial experience with drafting, reviewing, and negotiating vendor and supplier contracts.
• Excel working independently with little operational or execution oversight.
• Strong multitasker; able to prioritize tasks effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Exceptional judgment, balancing risk with business priorities.
• Hardworking, motivated, proactive and results oriented.
• Comfortable fielding questions from the most senior to the most junior teammates.
• Exceedingly organized and meticulous.
• Unquestioned integrity.
• Desire to be part of a fast-growing firm.
• Team oriented with the ability to build relationships and earn the respect of others.
• Excellent communication (verbal and written), organizational and interpersonal skills, and the ability to work collaboratively across multiple groups and functions.

This position description is intended to provide a general overview of the expectations and responsibilities of this position and may not include all tasks that may be assigned. As the nature of business demands change, so may the functions of this position. Additional duties and responsibilities may be assigned with or without notice.
Physical Requirements

• This position requires the physical capabilities to work in an office environment, which may include prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer. Corient seeks to make reasonable accommodations that enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential duties when possible.
• This position may require the ability to lift up to 15 pounds.
• This position is required to work onsite 4 days per week.

U.S. Eligibility Requirements

• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Must be willing to submit to a background investigation; any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation.
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States. For U.S. employment opportunities, Corient hires U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Exceptions to these requirements will be determined based on shortage of qualified candidates with a particular skill. Corient will require proof of work authorization.
• Corient participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.
• Must be willing to execute Corient’s Employee Agreement or Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement, which require, among other things, post-employment obligations relating to non-solicitation, confidentiality, and non-disclosure.

What You can Expect from Us
Our dedication to the Employee Experience at Corient is aimed at supporting, empowering, and inspiring our talented team through:

• 401(k) Plan with Employer Matching
• Four Medical Plan options that is generously subsidized by Corient
• Employer paid Dental, Vision & Life and AD&D Insurance
• Employer paid Short-term & Long-term Disability
• Paid Maternity & Parental Leave
• Flexible Spending Accounts & Health Savings Accounts
• Dependent Care FSA
• Commuter & Transit FSA
• Corporate Discount Program - Perkspot
• Training Reimbursement
• Paid Professional Designations
• Giving back to the community - Volunteer days

Corient is one of the fastest-growing wealth management platforms in the United States. We serve more than 10,000 clients and manage over $100 billion of assets through offices located across the country. We combine a boutique's personal service, creativity and objective advice with the extensive resources and vast intellectual capital of an innovative industry leader to create a profoundly different wealth management experience for our clients.

Full participation of all employees in a safe, healthy and respectful environment is key to individual and company success. We are committed to fully utilizing the abilities of all our employees and expect each of our employees to honor this commitment in their daily responsibilities.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All candidates will be recruited and, if applicable, selected and employed without regard to sex, race, religion, marital status, veteran status, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, creed, ancestry, disability, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by law.