General Counsel

Job Duties:

• Serve as a trusted legal partner to the business, identifying and resolving legal issues, structuring third-party relationships, and helping teams move forward with a clear understanding of risk and tradeoffs.
• Research, interpret, and advise on state regulatory requirements affecting the title insurance and mortgage industries, developing clear, practical guidance in complex or unfamiliar areas.
• Support corporate development, financing, and other strategic transactions as they arise
• Draft, review and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements, including agreements for both the delivery and procurement of products and services.
• Provide subject matter legal expertise on individual title matters, applying legal judgment to specific facts and circumstances to assess risk and determine practical paths forward.
• Partner with Compliance leadership on matters requiring legal interpretation or judgment, including regulatory interactions and complex risk questions.
• Manage the company's intellectual property portfolio
• Select and manage outside counsel relationships across practice areas
• Mentor and develop internal team members supporting contract review and other legal matters, helping build legal capability across the organization

Required Qualifications:

• J.D. and active bar admission
• Substantial experience advising businesses across commercial, regulatory, and general corporate matters, with a strong working knowledge of residential title and mortgage transactions.
• Experience operating as a broad, hands-on business lawyer in a fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment, with the range and judgment to work across disciplines, navigate unfamiliar questions, and advise the business beyond a narrow legal specialty.
• Demonstrated judgment in assessing risk and navigating ambiguity, with the ability to distinguish material concerns from manageable ones and recommend compliant, practical paths forward.
• Prior experience in a fast paced, high growth or entrepreneurial company
• Strong track record managing outside counsel relationships

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex legal topics to non legal audiences
• Experience in mentoring and developing legal talent
• Experience supporting M&A or financing transactions
• Comfortable working remotely, with sufficient schedule flexibility to maintain meaningful overlap with colleagues located across the country.

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