Corporate Counsel II - Litigation

Requirements

• Communicates effectively and informs direct leader of issues, status, and results of assigned tasks.
• Identifies legal issues and recommends responsive action, with an emphasis on risk mitigation.
• Engages with leadership, various business units, and external parties involved in the legal process.
• Partners and liaises with outside counsel on legal matters and manages relevant external consultants.
• Evaluates and analyzes legal issues in multiple jurisdictions and nationwide and reports findings, as well as recommendations, to direct leader.
• Recommends process improvements for area of responsibility.
• Provides strategic counsel to assigned business units on a wide range of legal issues.
• Works strategically to provide expert legal advice to key business functions in multiple jurisdictions to drive strategy and operational goals.
• Research, monitors, and assesses emergent legal trends, new legal issues and laws, legislation, regulations, and court decisions; identifies and communicates impactful updates to relevant business units.
• Drafts legal memorandums, case assessments, attorney correspondence, reports, and other work product to identify exposures and risks then reports findings to direct leader.
• Partners with relevant internal stakeholders to create and implement workforce policies and strategies.
• Serves as a liaison for various areas of the business, including creating and reviewing related agreements.
• Performs pre-litigation work to minimize risks and potential legal liability.
• Partners with and manages outside counsel with respect to complex legal matters.
• Identifies proactive, cost-effective solutions that will eliminate and/or mitigate legal and business risks.
• Ensures effective implementation and communication of Legal programs, providing visibility of key milestones and progress.
• Assists in developing, implementing and driving process improvements and infrastructure solutions to enhance the department’s ability to assist the Company and function efficiently.
• Ensures compliance with legal documentation and Company policies.
• Prepares and analyzes data to identify exposures and risks.
• Provides proactive analysis of current projects and analytical review of reported results.
• Performs special projects as requested.
• Drafts, reviews, and negotiates agreements.
• Collaborates with team members and communicates relevant information to leadership.
• Complies with ALDI privacy and security requirements and policies if job responsibilities include possible access to confidential and/or sensitive information.
• Other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401k Matching
• Retirement Plan
• Health Insurance