Department: Legal Operations
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Jacksonville, Florida
At Jimerson Birr, our team has accepted the lasting responsibility of protecting our clients’ rights, businesses, properties, investments, and finances.
Our professionals are integral, trusted advisers and advocates in both established and emerging businesses, giving our clients insights into legal and business considerations that guide prudent decision-making. We work with some of the world’s most respected and well-established businesses, as well as start-up visionaries, and individuals looking to overcome challenges.
Jimerson Birr is seeking a Senior Business Advisory & Transactions Attorney for our Regulatory Compliance and Licensing team. The Senior Attorney serves as day-to-day counsel to business clients on the licensing, compliance, and government-facing questions that determine whether they can keep operating and keep operating cleanly.
This is regulatory work with real breadth, and it moves at the agency’s clock, not a court’s. In a given week you might file a licensing application, defend a client against a disciplinary complaint, respond to an audit, review an ad campaign for compliance, and weigh in on a bid protest. You set your own priorities across all of it, troubleshoot the thing in front of you, and move to the next one, you don’t need someone handing you a queue.
The part that distinguishes this seat: you build things that keep working long after the filing is done: a compliance program with real policies, training, and an audit cadence; a licensing renewal calendar that never lapses; a government-affairs strategy a client can run on their own. You’re a generalist across regulated industries, but when a regulatory scheme is genuinely interesting, you’re the one willing to go deep on it. And once you’ve built something, you rarely leave it alone. You keep circling back to make it tighter, because "good enough" rarely stays that way in your head.
At JB, "great lawyering" isn’t defined by hours worked. It is measured by execution against the plan, disciplined delivery, and visible progress, backed by systems that create clarity, consistency, and client trust. That structure exists to remove friction. The attorneys who thrive here treat it as leverage and then make it better.
This is your seat if:
This seat sits inside the Business Advisory & Transactional group’s Regulatory Compliance and Licensing practice — the team that keeps clients operating legally across regulated industries, from first license to government audit. As a Senior BAT Attorney, you’ll manage your own caseload independently while coaching junior attorneys and paralegals, and this tier is the springboard into either deep subject-matter specialization or team leadership, depending on where you want to take it.
Join a dynamic team that values professional growth and excellence in legal service. We offer competitive compensation, professional development opportunities, and a supportive work environment dedicated to fostering your success.
We’ve found that the key to doing great work is to love what you do and respect who you do it with. To continue reading about our firm, visit our website Jimerson Birr.
Our atmosphere and award-winning firm culture is collegial and professional, and our shared commitment to professional development is superior to our contemporaries. Learn more about our firm culture here: JB Firm Culture: JB FOR ME.
WHY APPLY?
You’ll get a Challenging Opportunity with a Company that Cares About Its Most Valuable Asset: YOU! At Jimerson Birr, we pride ourselves on our people and their collective achievements. Besides our list of legal industry honors, in 2021 and for the seventh consecutive year, the firm was named one of Florida’s “Best Companies to Work For” by Florida Trend Magazine. In recent years, the firm was also distinguished as one of the “Best Places to Work” by the Jacksonville Business Journal and five times as one of the “50 Fastest Growing Companies.” Opportunities abound for those who can meet and exceed the expectations set for our team. Jimerson Birr is comprised of high-performing and professionally fulfilled people. We believe that a positive attitude, personal accountability, and a commitment to quality work will put a talented person on a fast track for success. Our atmosphere and award-winning firm culture are collegial and professional, and our shared commitment to professional development is superior to our contemporaries.
Our core values are simple: Commitment to service; Commitment to quality; Commitment to results. We live our core values, and we welcome you to live them with us.
Jimerson Birr is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment and all employees are treated during employment without regard to race, color, sexual orientation, religion, sex, age, national origin, genetic information, disability, veteran status, gender identity, and marital status.
Jimerson Birr is a Florida-based law firm that seeks to exceed client expectations through commitment to excellence and by adding value to our clients’ businesses. We are committed to handling each matter with the quality, care, attention to detail and respect as if we were representing ourselves. We are accessible, responsible, prepared, efficient and technologically advanced. Our clients and colleagues value us because they trust our integrity and abilities.
Jimerson Birr concentrates its efforts in providing the highest level of legal services throughout the Southeastern U.S. on a wide variety of business, corporate, and commercial litigation issues that can affect businesses in a broad range of circumstances. Our Florida-based law firm has a reputation for being well-prepared counselors, influential negotiators and aggressive litigators. Our firm has significant experience in the areas of construction law (including lien and bond claims, licensure, project and contract administration), business litigation (including breach of contract, misrepresentation, fiduciary breaches, non-compete enforcement and corporate/partnership disputes) and creditors rights and bankruptcy (including collections, foreclosures, replevin, garnishments, and adversarial proceedings).
