The General Counsel will be an essential contributor to the growth of the Company, responsible for providing legal counsel and support to all internal company departments including finance, healthcare compliance, human resources, company clinics, franchise operations, franchise development, and marketing. The ideal candidate will be a dynamic leader, with excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills, strong time and project management and prioritization skills and have previous experience in franchising. The position reports to the CEO.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Provide legal counsel and support to all internal company departments including finance, human resources, company clinics, franchise development, franchise operations, marketing, and health care compliance.
• Proactively resolve disputes and handle legal matters internally to reduce the costs of using external counsel.
• Retain and manage outside legal counsel and budget. Maintain control over legal strategy, act as liaison between outside legal counsel and internal business departments.
• Advise executives on contract status, legal risks, and business terms of various deals.
• Timely prepare, review, and edit legal documents, contracts, master service agreements, SOW’s, etc.
• Research unique legal issues impacting the organization by identifying applicable statutes, judicial decisions, and codes.
• Keep abreast of legislative changes that may affect the company and its affiliates.
• Maintain appropriate state and local registrations, licenses, and qualifications.
• Participate in the development and oversight of corporate policies, procedures, and programs.
• Franchise Sales and Operations: Collaborate with internal departments and outside counsel to lead the annual FDD renewal process, draft and review franchise agreements, area representative agreements and addendums, review marketing material, handle dispute resolution and franchisee compliance including issuing default letters, termination agreements and pre-litigation matters.

NON-ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Leads by example and exhibits solid teamwork while promoting the core philosophy of FYZICAL.

QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS/EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school and admission to any state bar
• 5+ years of relevant experience, healthcare compliance a must
• Demonstrates the ability to effectively understand, consider, and address the internal client or business position while mitigating risk exposure.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Must possess strong judgment, confidence, collaborative problem-solving skills, and ability to identify potential issues quickly.
• Must be able to independently handle a variety and number of legal matters in a timely fashion with minimal supervision.
• Exceptional ability to schedule and prioritize work and deliverables to address a variety of changing needs.
• Highly organized and driven to thoroughly understand the issue and the possible implications of legal guidance both from a legal and business perspective.

EXPECTED WORK HOURS

Monday through Friday, 8.00am-5:00pm. Some night and weekend work may be required.

OTHER DUTIES

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to:

• Communicate and converse, maintain a stationary position (standing and sitting), move/traverse, kneel and bend.
• Occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop; kneel; crouch; taste or smell.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, peripheral vision and ability to adjust and focus.
• Light to moderate lifting is required.
• Ability to uphold the stress of traveling.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Moderate noise (i.e. business office with computers, phone and printers, light traffic).
• Ability to sit at a computer terminal for an extended period of time.

EEO STATEMENT

FYZBIZ, LLC provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, FYZBIZ LLC complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the Company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

FYZBIZ, LLC expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of FYZBIZ, LLC employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge

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