Senior Counsel Litigation

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Senior Counsel, Litigation
The candidate will provide legal services, representation, and advice to school clients on litigation and litigation-related matters. Responsibilities also include identifying, managing and meeting client needs, managing outside counsel, continuing professional development, and supporting management of the Legal Group. Provide legal services, representation, and advice to the school on litigation, alternative dispute resolution, agency proceedings and related matters, in subject areas that may include real estate, finance, insurance, construction, contracts, quiet title, condemnation, collections, employment, education, risk management and other civil matters. Provide regular in-house training to the school clients on relevant topics in these areas. Conduct legal research and gathers information using all available resources including computerized legal research systems, school collections, libraries, computer data systems, government agencies, documents, and individuals in order to provide legal services and advice. Identify and analyze applicable legal and business issues, and develops options and/or strategies available to client to address issues, and thoroughly advises client of issues, options, and strategies through oral and/or written communications. Negotiate, draft and/or review all necessary related documentation. Efficiently manage cases, projects, and/or assigned transactions which may include developing and implementing a plan and communicating with client and/or outside counsel. Organize and prioritize work, delegates work to staff or outside counsel, and supervises performance of delegated work to ensure timely completion of quality work product. Communicate, cooperate, and coordinate with other attorneys, managers, staff, client, and outside counsel to manage cases and/or projects. Manage outside counsel, project budgets and timelines. Partner with client in order to facilitate client’s accomplishment of strategic and business objectives. Regularly and clearly communicate with client on all matters. Maintain high degree of integrity and professional ethics. Maintain a superior reputation with colleagues in the Bar, professional organizations, and the community. Develop specific areas of legal expertise which are consistent with the needs and goals of the school and the Legal Group’s clients. Direct and supervise assigned staff in performance of tasks, including setting of performance measures and providing full and fair annual evaluations of staff. Hires, trains and develops staff to support the provision of high quality legal services and advice to clients. Actively participates in Legal Group and the school meetings and projects. Commit to active community involvement and service to others, including those unable to afford professional services. Update professional education by attending seminars, workshops, and regularly reviewing professional journals. Juris Doctorate and 8+ years of commercial or other relevant civil litigation experience required. An equivalent combination of education and experience may substitute for the requirements. Licensed to practice law in the State of Hawaii and the US District Court, Hawaii required. Excellent interpersonal skills to communicate and work with all levels of the school staff and outside parties, as well as maintain open communication with peers in the community required. Excellent writing skills to prepare correspondence, memoranda, reports, legal documents and presentations required. Ability to prepare clear and concise reports as well as communicate general and sensitive information to internal and external parties required. Excellent verbal skills to effectively communicate with CEO, Trustees, and other members of the executive management team, school staff members and the public required. First-chair state or federal court trial experience preferred. Knowledge of the school, its internal policies and procedures preferred. Advanced computer skills in Word and Outlook and working knowledge of Windows 2000 applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and matter tracking systems (e.g., ProLaw (matter management system) and CounselLink (eBilling system) required.
Deadline: October 19, 2017

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