Job Description

Primary Purpose
Delivers accurate legal analysis and drafts standard agreements to protect organizational interests and maintain regulatory adherence.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Conducts legal research and analysis, staying updated on relevant laws, regulations, and precedents affecting the utility industry.
• Drafts and reviews complex legal documents and discovery responses under the supervision of an attorney, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness.
• Assists in the development, review, and implementation of corporate policies, procedures, and internal controls to mitigate legal and regulatory risks.
• Provides legal guidance in a number of regulatory areas such as environmental, ethics, industrial safety, and employment.
• Provides advice and counsel to management and project teams on legal and regulatory issues and related strategy.
• Assists in the development and evaluation of draft legislation.
• Drafts contracts, legal opinions, agreements, and other legal documents as needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education

• Required: Requires a Juris Doctor (J.D.) or Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree and active membership in the California Bar or another U.S. state Bar.

Experience

• Required: 2 years of related experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Required: Legal Drafting - Prepares written legal documents, including a motion, a letter, a brief, a memo, or a contract.
• Required: Contract Management - Streamlining the creation, execution, storage or renewal of contracts, with a focus on compliance, often via software or other automated means.
• Required: Legal Research - The process of identifying and retrieving information necessary to support legal decision-making.
• Required: Legal Advisory - Providing an opinion regarding the substance or procedure of the law in relation to a particular factual situation.
• Required: Regulatory Compliance - Ensuring an organization's adherence to laws, regulations, guidelines and specifications relevant to its business processes.
• Required: Litigation Management - The act, process, or practice of settling a dispute in a court of law.
• Required: Corporate Governance - Corporate governance is the collection of mechanisms, processes and relations used by various parties to control and to operate a corporation.
• Required: Legal Due Diligence - Conducting an assessment of legal risks associated with a business transaction, such as a merger or acquisition. It involves reviewing relevant documents, contracts, and agreements to identify any potential liabilities, obligations, or issues that could impact the outcome of the transaction.
• Required: Documentation and Records Management - Creating, distributing, using, maintaining and disposition of recorded information maintained as evidence of business activities and transactions.
• Required: Commercial Negotiation - The planning, reviewing, analysis and other activities that a buyer and seller conduct to reach an agreement.