Client Agreements Advisor

The Client Agreements Advisor leads analysis of and response to clients’ terms of engagement. This critical role helps to ensure that Covington’s agreements to non-standard terms are consistent, mitigate risk, and to the greatest extentpossible reflect the firm’s business interests. The Advisor advises and works with the firm’s Client Agreements team and senior attorneys to manage the firm’s review, response to and implementation of non-standard terms.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain thorough knowledge of firm business policies and practices, legal and ethical considerations, insurance requirements and guidance relating to firm agreements.
• Assess engagement letters and outside counsel guidelines and other client-facing contracts to identify potential issues.
• Draft key internal assessments and proposed approaches based on evaluation.
• Lead senior attorneys in discussions of issues, considerations and proposed approaches.
• Prepare client-facing comments, markups and responses to terms.
• Partner with senior attorneys in discussions and negotiations with clients.
• Respond to due diligence questionnaires and RFPs.
• Manage outside counsel guidelines database and share key information with all necessary stakeholders.
• Perform extensive research using firm databases, business research resources and discussion with internal subject-matter experts.
• Collaborate with and assist compliance colleagues in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating various other contracts as necessary.
• Uphold high standards of confidentiality, discretion, and integrity, particularly with respect to all sensitive and/or confidential firm and client information to which this position will have access.

Qualifications:

• JD preferred.
• Three or more years of law firm or equivalent experience in a legal setting is strongly preferred.
• Extensive experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts.
• Familiarity with client-firm engagement letters and clients’ outside counsel guidelines.
• Demonstrated ability to process, organize and assess complex information to determine logical conclusions and effective solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to clearly and concisely synthesize complex business and legal concepts orally and in writing.
• Highly developed business research abilities.
• Strong interpersonal skills to establish close working relationships and simultaneously balance needs and views of different stakeholders.
• Understanding of the complexities of business and legal relationships in a global economic environment.

Status: Exempt

Reports To: Contracts Manager

Workplace Type: Remote

Salary range:$89,5000 – $143,000 dependent on candidate experience level and location.

Candidates hired for staff positions with a minimum work schedule of 30 hours per week are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package, including healthcare insurance. Learn more about benefits at Covington.

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Covington & Burling LLP is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in any aspect of employment, including hiring, salary, promotion, discipline, termination, and benefits, on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, sexual orientation, family responsibility, disability (including physical handicap), or any other improper criterion.

Covington will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with applicable laws, including the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.