Commercial Attorney (India)

Elevate Flexible Legal Resourcing

Website: elevate.law
Job details:
Elevate is recruiting a Commercial Attorney, in our Contracts - Managed Services team India. As a Commercial Attorney, you work closely with in-house legal departments and their internal business clients. You will review, redline and negotiate contracts and participate on projects to improve our customer contractual infrastructure, workflow, and processes. You will work independently on assigned matters but will also work collaboratively with other members of the Elevate team and Elevate service lines, as well as the customers in house team.

Specifically, the Commercial Attorney will

• Draft, review, redline, negotiate various customer and third-party contracts and other transactional documents.
• Review contracts against established standards and negotiate acceptable alternatives, working from templates and tools that will be available to you.
• Compare contracts and highlight differences and similarities in template formats.
• Facilitate escalation of unresolved issues, approval and signature.
• Update or draft playbooks and templates, as needed.
• Research and analyse areas of commercial law as relevant to the customer’s business and prospects and prepare position statements for different audiences.
• Quickly understand term positions and fallbacks in a provided playbook, learn how to use CLM tools and adapt to new processes.
  
  

Skills For Success

• Proven ability to work in a client-centric, deadline driven and fast paced environment.
• Able to assess risk with contractual terms, so you understand when a term needs to be escalated or requires additional approvals, as it is beyond the guidelines agreed to with the customer.
• Work effectively from a home office or a remote work environment.
• Flexible team player, and willing to pitch in on matters and projects to better serve our clients, even if the work falls outside your normal scope of duties.
• Excellent writing, redlining and verbal communication skills, particularly depicting complex ideas clearly and concisely.
• Professionalism in both verbal and written work.
• High integrity and ethical compass.
• Excellent listening communication skills and the judgment to know which skill to use in each setting.
  
  

Experience

• 4-6 of years of legal practice with at least 3 years of experience with mid-level complexity commercial transactional support, including drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts, particularly services and supply agreements, software license and SAAS agreements, procurement and other inbound and outbound agreements.
• Experience conducting simple to complex legal research and memorandum drafting.
• Excellent track record in previous client support/customer service engagements.
• Must have worked in Customer facing contracts review and negotiation role.
• Experience with Microsoft Products like Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint.
• Experience with contract management or workflow software tools is a plus.
  
  

Qualifications

• LL.B. (LL.M. is a plus)
  
  

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

• 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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