Junior Attorney

ATTORNEY –CONTRACTS / REAL ESTATE Woburn, MA 3 days/week on site We are seeking a Staff Attorney to support the customer contracts Legal team. The customer contracts Legal team negotiates, drafts, reviews and administers legal agreements that govern our customer’s use of assets. Day to day, you will prepare all documents relating to customer contracts, and the resolution of issues that may impact a pending customer application. You will partner cross-functionally with our Sales, Operations, and Finance teams to review and provide legal analyses of contracts, terminations, renewals, and responses to related customer inquiries and disputes. RESPONSIBILITIES Develop and maintain a thorough knowledge of applicable customer and/or landowner agreements; regularly communicate with external customers regarding contractual rights and obligations; negotiate resolutions to customer issues related to non-compliance. Coordinate and communicate with internal departments to satisfactorily resolve issues with property owners and/or external customers. Prepare new license agreements, amendments, ground lease documents, access and utility agreements, use authorization and consent agreements, memoranda of leases, and consent and notice letters in compliance with standards. Prepare legal analyses of and negotiate resolution of property owner transactions, customer requests, project permitting, and the adoption of applicable legislation or regulations. Help resolve title curative issues, including but not limited to missing deeds, missing memoranda of lease/assignments, utility and access easement issues, mortgages, all liens (except mechanic’s), probate issues, improper signature authority, and issues concerning entities; work with external title companies in accordance with internal policy. QUALIFICATIONS - Contract or real estate background Juris Doctor and license to practice law in any state required. Between 1-3 years of experience working with contract/license drafting and negotiation strongly preferred. Strong negotiation skills; ability to effectively resolve complex issues and conflicts in relation to agreement and contract compliance. Attention to detail in the preparation and review of contracts and supporting documents; strong legal drafting skills. - Experience drafting and reading contracts - Ability to pinpoint different items in contracts - Knowledge of real estate; reviewing titles, commercial leases and negotiating them - Experience utilizing Microsoft Teams is necessary - Candidate must have the ability to read and pull data from Contracts with an attention to detail - Looking for a candidate with experience looking at land rights and interpreting them - This candidate would support internal business partners and landlords - The ability to dig deeper and being problem/solution oriented highly sought after - Candidate must be reliable, able to multi-task, able to work well with other people and have sufficient interpersonal skills - Must be able to provide a Certificate of good standing - Salesforce exposure is a bonus