Legal Counsel - USVI

Job Title: Legal Counsel - USVI
Job ID: 79870
Location: St. Thomas, USVI


What you will be doing:
 General Legal

• Provide advice on a range of contractual issues during project execution and post-execution phases.

• Identify core legal and commercial issues of importance to the Project Team and work closely with the Project Team to prepare negotiation positions and advocate said positions with counterparties.

• Identify potential risks associated with projects and develop strategies to mitigate those risks.

• Liaise between business unit / project leaders and external counsel on complex claims and litigation files.

• Manage various project-related claims at different stages of the dispute resolution process, including dispute resolution board, adjudication, court and/or arbitration proceedings, and includes strategizing with project teams and instructing external counsel.

• Actively manage and give instructions to external counsel on claims and litigation files.

• Build strong partnerships and work collaboratively with senior project executives, external counsel, consultants and other stakeholders.

Reporting and Governance

• Research and preparation of reports, presentation materials and binders for executive management team may be required.

• Summarizing, tracking, managing and regularly reporting on the contracting needs of the Company.

• Draft policies and procedures relating to legal and corporate development function areas.

 Other Duties

• Fostering and promoting a work environment that is: productive, collaborative, inclusive and diverse with a team culture of integrity, professionalism and excellence.

What you must have:

• Member in good standing with the Law Society in the jurisdiction of practice, an asset.

• You have demonstrated working experience/knowledge of commercial contract laws.

• You have 3 or more years legal experience in a private practice or as in-house counsel specializing in contract review and negotiations.

• You have demonstrated versatility with the ability to learn new business structures.

• You have demonstrated verbal reasoning skills with the ability to interpret the precise definition of written documents such as contracts, legislation and case decisions.

• You are an effective communicator, negotiator and consensus builder and can effectively influence without formal authority and work collaboratively with colleagues and divergent stakeholder positions.

For more information about TEEMA and to consider other career opportunities, please visit our website at www.teemagroup.com