Corporate Staff Counsel

In conjunction with supervisory counsel,

• Analyze, review, and draft contracts and contract amendments for construction engineering services including professional service agreements for geotechnical engineering, construction materials test, environment consulting, facilities consulting, related subcontracts, and other miscellaneous agreements consistent with ECS' operational needs.
• Negotiate contract terms operationally acceptable to business units and consistent with ECS' corporate guidelines.
• Prepare and facilitate corporate matters including monitoring entity and professional licensing standards for architects, engineers, and geologists, preparing resolutions and minutes of directors' and shareholders' meetings, and other miscellaneous corporate documents.
• Research and draft policy guidance for discrete ECS business needs as instructed by supervisory counsel.
• Participate in appropriate dispute avoidance/resolution strategy sessions with departmental and company leadership.
• Provide legal guidance to leadership on various business and industry-related matters, as assigned.
• Track legislation at the federal, state, and local levels that is important to ECS operations.
• Work with the department leadership to provide legal support to ECS and its subsidiaries throughout the US on a variety of matters. This includes a demonstrable willingness to have worked in and/or to learn to work in three or more of the following areas of law: government contracts, entity licensing, cybersecurity, privacy, general employment (EEO, OSHA, W&H, NCAs, etc.), buyer-side M&A, social media, environmental regulation, insurance policy, and coverage, or claims and litigation management.
• Review court records and, in conjunction with outside counsel, coordinate corporate responses to pleadings, discovery, and demands.
• In conjunction with department leadership, respond to third-party subpoenas.
• Develop and provide internal training to the organization on a variety of legal topics related to business operational risk.

• BA/BS degree from a college or university required
• Juris Doctorate from an accredited US law school
• Approximately 2 - 4 years of applicable law firm, in-house, or clerkship experience
• Must be admitted to the Virginia bar or eligible for admission as a Virginia Corporate Counsel within three months following date to hire
• Strong interpersonal skills along with the ability to communicate effectively with others at all levels of the organization.
• Strong organizational skills, self-motivated and responsible
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including a clear and concise drafting style.
• Familiarity with standard on-line legal research tools.
• Demonstrable interest or experience in the construction industry; A/E industry experience is a plus.
• Experience with the formation, maintenance, dissolution, and licensing of entities is preferable.
• Experience with DocJuris and Harbor Compliance programs is a plus, but not required.
  
• If driving for, or on behalf of, any ECS subsidiary, a valid driver's license is required.

ECS Group of Companies (ECS) was founded in 1988 with the goal to raise the standards of professional engineering consulting. Today, we are a leader in geotechnical, construction materials, environmental and facilities consulting services. We are employee-owned with more than 2,800 employees in 100+ offices and testing facilities coast to coast. ECS is currently ranked #64 in Engineering News-Record's Top 500 Design Firms (April 2024), #144 in Engineering News-Record's Top 200 Environmental Firms (October 2024) and #28 in Zweig Group's Hot Firm List (June 2024). For additional information about ECS click here.

We love our employees and we show this through providing some great benefits, including paid time off, health and other insurance plans, retirement and college savings plans, and more. Click here to learn more about the great benefits at ECS.

ECS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This means that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.