Litigation Counsel

U.S. (Remote)contractRemote

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$190k–$220k

H1B: no

Clipboard Litigation Counsel at Clipboard managing various litigation workstreams including independent contractor classification and professional negligence. Responsible for partnering with internal and outside counsel on high-stakes litigation matters.

Responsibilities

This isn’t the type of in-house counsel position where you will be siloed into a few narrow workstreams or deal with the same issue day after day. At Clipboard, you’ll be tasked with tackling novel legal challenges, flexing different muscles across various areas of law, and making high-impact decisions in a fast-moving environment. You’ll be tasked with building internal processes and systems, not simply managing a docket of individual cases.
Manage various litigation workstreams relating to independent contractor classification, including but not limited to matters relating to unemployment insurance claims and disputes with users of the Clipboard marketplace.
Manage other litigation workstreams, including but not limited to professional negligence and data privacy matters.
Partner with both internal and outside counsel on managing high-stakes litigation matters, including by drafting responsive pleadings, briefs, and other important documents.
Work closely with outside counsel on developing and participating in the company’s eDiscovery strategy, including custodial document collection, review, and production.
Manage the company’s third-party subpoena response strategy.
Provide legal guidance to a wide range of cross function teams, including the Company’s product and operations teams.
Support other legal workstreams depending on the needs of the team and company.
What success looks like 90 days in:
You are deeply familiar with all pending litigation and investigation matters and have taken over leadership of at least one high-stakes matter, including communicating and coordinating with outside counsel and internal stakeholders.

Qualification

In at least one litigation matterJD with at least 5 years of experienceExperience with eDiscovery issuesClerkship experienceGovernment experienceInterview ProcessApplication Review

Required

You fully own the unemployment response workstream, third-party subpoena response process, and a docket of other litigation matters, including a subset of the company’s medical malpractice matters, and can operate completely independently on these fronts with minimal supervision.
In at least one litigation matter, you worked with outside counsel to develop an eDiscovery plan that minimizes the costs related to custodial document collection and review while still meeting our discovery obligations.
You proactively and quickly jump in to respond to requests for legal guidance from other business functions, and provide high quality legal advice that incorporates the risk tolerance of the business.
You are contributing to legal strategy decisions made by the Head of Legal.
JD with at least 5 years of experience
Bias toward action and solving (not just spotting) problems
Ability to take ownership of your work and manage projects independently
Excellent communication and writing abilities
Comfort and skill in navigating complexity and ambiguity, and working on a leanly staffed team
Willingness to quickly dive into new and “unfamiliar” legal issues
Ability to work under pressure and autonomously, and meet tight deadlines
Agility and flexibility to take on new tasks and responsibilities when necessary to support the business and legal team’s needs in a fast-moving, rapidly scaling, and dynamic tech company

Preferred

Experience handling arbitrations and class actions
Experience with eDiscovery issues, including large-scale custodial data collection, review, and production
Clerkship experience
Government experience
Experience working cross-culturally and with diverse, global teams
Interview Process:
Application Review
Case Interview with a member of our Legal team

Company

Clipboard

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