Location: North Sioux City, South Dakota (In-person only)

Hours: Full Time

Compensation: Starting a $115,000/year + bonus (commensurate with experience)

We are looking for an Attorney with at least four (4) years’ experience for an innovative multi-generational single family office and its’ related endowed non-profits. Responsibilities include assisting with corporate compliance, contract drafting and negotiations, strategy and planning, litigation management, and providing counsel to the General Counsel and executive management. The Attorney should offer creative and efficient solutions that accomplish programmatic objectives, with care given to applying preventive legal strategies, and compliance policies to minimize risk and provide creative legal solutions.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic legal support to business and real estate transactions, corporate structures, corporate compliance, and internal operations, including human resources, unique to a family office, and other internal groups across the company
• Review, prepare, and negotiate documents related to innovative transactions, and ensure the accomplishment of the company’s goals
• Assists with managing 3^rd party outside counsel in various subject matters
• Structure and negotiate transactions and other strategic transactions for the family office, non-profits, and related companies
• Assist with employment matters, including policy development, enhancement, and trainings
• Assist with litigation, disputes, and fact finding
• Provide practical legal advice and counsel and act as trusted advisor to the company, executive personnel, and other internal groups
• Understand the company’s objectives, develop creative solutions, and resolve issues using the legal framework and the company’s core values
• Keep current on new and emerging laws and policy developments impacting the company
• Provide support in other legal matters and issues as needed

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor with excellent academic credentials and active bar membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction
• At least four (4) years’ experience in the practice of law, with relevant experience in transactional law, including drafting of contracts, negotiating business and real estate transactions, and estate planning
• Prior in-house experience a plus
• History of effectively balancing and prioritizing multiple tasks simultaneously, establishing a role as a trusted advisor, and providing innovative solutions in a complex and fast-paced environment
• Flexibility and ability to deal with ambiguities in the law and tackling cutting edge issues
• Ability to work with teams and embrace appropriate risk-taking to achieve programmatic objectives
• Ability to work with flexibility, efficiency, enthusiasm, and diplomacy both individually and collaboratively as part of a team effort
• Strong interpersonal skills, maturity, sound judgement and the ability to communicate and interact effectively
• Highest standards of ethics and integrity
• Familiarity with the real estate and employment laws and regulations a plus