Staff Attorney - Litigation

Lowes

10d•Onsite

About The Position

The Lowe's Legal Department serves as an innovative, proactive and strategic business partner focused on accelerating profitable growth while protecting the Lowe's brand. The Staff Attorney is an intellectually curious problem solver who serves as a trusted business partner to provide legal consultation, advice, and practical solutions on day-to-day business activities, including routine policy and procedural improvements across several business units. This role handles some matters independently and may provide input to support complex work. The Staff Attorney should have a working understanding of litigation and experience supporting discovery obligations, including e-discovery strategy and execution.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
Juris Doctorate Degree from an ABA accredited school
3-5 Years Practicing law in a firm or in-house legal department
Litigation experience, with preference for insurance defense, commercial/business litigation, product liability, or regulatory/compliance.
Demonstrated ability to analyze and manage complex litigation matters, including evaluating claims exposure, setting reserves, assessing risk, and developing resolution strategies.
Experience supporting e-discovery efforts including document preservation, collection, review workflows, and production of ESI.
Proven ability to manage a high-volume docket of litigated matters, through all phases, including demand letters, pleadings, discovery, motion practice, settlement, and trial preparation.
Ability to influence by translating legal risk to operational risk and practical solutions.
Demonstrated legal writing skills
Able to translate legal speak into plain language.
Experience supporting e-discovery efforts including document preservation, collection, review, workflows, and production of ESI
License to practice law in at least one state (or foreign jurisdiction, if lawyer is providing services to Company affiliates in that jurisdiction).

Responsibilities

Serves as a trusted business partner by stakeholders
Applies legal and business knowledge to align stakeholders on mitigation strategies on day to day business activities
Provides broad-based, day to day legal support on common matters within litigation and risk management areas, in some instances using existing templates or processes with some of customization required
Performs day to day core tasks on a highly independent basis, with minimal to some direction from supervising Senior Counsel or Assistant General Counsel
Performs stretch assignments on an occasional basis, such as those that expand into new areas of the law, new clients, or projects
Supports discovery efforts, including e-discovery, by coordinating with internal stakeholders and outside counsel to ensure, efficient, defensible, and cost-effective processes for preservation, collection, review, and production of electronically stored information (ESI).
May support more senior lawyers on various matters, by conducting legal research and proposing solutions on more complex matters
Prepares and delivers trainings, memorandums for colleagues to present to business partners on routine legal matters. May co-present on complex legal matters with senior level attorneys
Proactively identifies legal risks by assessing internal and external trends, including the regulatory environment and supports plans to mitigate and prevent future exposure
May interact with outside counsel to get additional expertise on particular topic, while some may have day-to-day interaction and management of outside counsel on individual legal matters
Collaborates and provides input on projects and supports colleagues across the department
Serves as key point of contact for Director level stakeholders.
May take leadership roles on project and committees.