Litigation Counsel

Waymo•Mountain View, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

As part of Waymo's Legal team, you will work on the exciting legal issues surrounding our transformational autonomous driving technology and help drive our business lines forward from technology ideation through scaled commercial deployment. We partner with our public policy, safety, security and privacy experts to define transportation policy for the autonomous driving world to come, advising on regulatory changes that support and protect our users around the world. We collaborate with our engineering, product, strategy and operations teams to develop and protect our intellectual property portfolio and drive our corporate and commercial transactions. We ensure compliance with an increasingly complex and dynamic range of global regulations. And we anticipate, mitigate, and litigate high-profile and precedent-setting legal matters.

Requirements

6+ years of prior litigation experience with a law firm and/or in-house legal department.
Insurance law counseling, commercial drafting, product liability, automotive negligence, and/or data rights litigation experience
Excellent communication skills and ability to partner effectively at all levels of the company and cross-functionally, including with executives and technical staff.
Detailed and in-depth understanding of the litigation life-cycle, experience managing offensive and defensive litigation team efforts, and ediscovery processes, workflows and best practices.
Strong organizational skills and attention to detail; ability to manage a significant workload with competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Experience working with engineers of complex products and/or novel technologies

Nice To Haves

Experience counseling across a range of subject matters relevant to autonomous vehicles or automobiles, regulated industries, or AI.
In-house and/or trial experience.
Experience responding to governmental requests for information, and/or other torts, commercial, employment, land-use/property rights, or IP litigation experience.
On call or incident response experience
Experience advising on document retention programs
International litigation/arbitration experience

Responsibilities

Advise on insurance-related laws and regulations
Advise on commercial agreements provisions related to liability and insurance
Manage litigation, support claims management, civil subpoenas, and related document production
Further Waymo's litigation readiness, including proactive discovery preparedness
Provide proactive litigation and product liability prevention advice
Provide strategic counsel on the development of emerging law pertaining to AV and AI liability
Participate on the legal on call rotation for incident response
Advise on, and prepare responses to document and information requests for investigations