Senior Business Advisory & Transactional Attorney- General Business Advisory

Jimerson Birr, P.A.•Jacksonville, FL

7d•Onsite

About The Position

Jimerson Birr is seeking a Senior Business Advisory & Transactions Attorney for our General Business Advisory team. The Senior Attorney will serve as day-to-day counsel to business clients, handling regulatory, employment, intellectual property, and commercial questions. This role involves a variety of tasks such as clearing trademarks, reviewing vendor agreements, guiding clients through separations, responding to agency audits, and drafting contracts. A key aspect of this position is building durable programs like compliance programs, trade secret protocols, and incident response playbooks. The firm emphasizes "great lawyering" through execution, disciplined delivery, and visible progress, supported by systems that promote clarity, consistency, and client trust.

Requirements

JD and an active Florida Bar license.
5+ years of business advisory, regulatory and compliance, employment, or intellectual property practice.
A track record of managing matters independently, including budget discipline, accurate scoping, and reliable delivery without daily supervision.
Precision drafting: clean documents, consistent defined terms, and no loose ends.
Comfort communicating directly with clients, counterparties, agencies, and regulators.
The ability to work inside a structured system and the instinct to improve it rather than route around it.
Sound triage judgment: ability to distinguish between a minor question and a significant risk.
Comfort delegating real work and following up on it.

Nice To Haves

Administrative law or licensing practice before state or local agencies.
USPTO trademark prosecution experience.
Employment counseling experience on the advisory side, not primarily litigation.
Depth in a regulated industry: construction, healthcare, financial services, or similar.
Experience building a compliance program from scratch rather than maintaining one.
Georgia Bar admission or willingness to seek it.

Responsibilities

Serve as on-call counsel to business clients, handling fast-turn contract review and negotiation, vendor risk and security addenda, dispute prevention, demand letters, and judgment calls.
Handle regulatory compliance and licensing across regulated industries, including compliance reviews, filings, state and local business and professional licensing, license transfers, and defense of complaints, investigations, and disciplinary actions.
Respond to agency investigations and audits, and advise on workplace safety and OSHA compliance, advertising and marketing review, government procurement, bid protests, and economic development incentives.
Advise on employment matters, including handbooks and policy suites, employment and independent contractor agreements, restrictive covenants, discipline, separations, releases, restructuring, and support for workplace investigations.
Protect the brand through trademark strategy, clearance screening, USPTO filings, brand use guidelines, pre-litigation cease-and-desist work, copyright assignments, work-for-hire terms, licensing, and domain name disputes.
Serve as the primary client contact on most matters, with the judgment to escalate when risk, budget, or strategy shifts.
Build durable programs, not one-off answers, including compliance programs, trade secret and confidentiality controls, operational legal audits, policy and process mapping, codes of conduct, conflicts policies, and data privacy and cybersecurity incident response playbooks.
Mentor junior attorneys and paralegals, delegating work and providing instruction and feedback.
Improve the firm's systems, including matter plans, clause libraries, templates, technology, or legal products.
Maintain discipline in timekeeping, service commitments, budgets, and on-plan execution for both personal work and delegated tasks.
Identify and document adjacent legal needs for clients.
Run disciplined alignment conversations at the start and throughout matters to manage scope, timeline, and expectations.
Engage in proactive client outreach and support pitches and cross-selling.