Legal Corporate Counsel

Job Description:

We need great legal professionals to help continue our incredible growth. To that end, we are strategically growing the legal department to add a legal advisor who can provide creative, practical, and business-oriented solutions to complex challenges.

Job Summary:
The corporate counsel will join Milwaukee Tool at our headquarters in Brookfield, WI. Duties will include

• Negotiating and drafting a variety of commercial contracts, including supply agreements, distribution agreements, partnerships, leases, LOIs, etc.

• Consulting with management, tax, accounting, finance, marketing, engineering, and all areas of the business to support their legal needs with advice on a variety of different legal and strategic issues

• Advise and lead diligence on various acquisitions

  • Update and continue to develop the organization's policies, including identifying industry-specific issues, governance, and regulatory affairs

  • Designing, updating, and delivering legal training to the business

  • Becoming a trusted advisor for the leadership of various different areas of the business

What We Are Looking For:

• Juris doctorate degree from an accredited law school

• Law firm or in-house lawyers with 1-3 years of experience and licensed to practice in at least one state or the District of Columbia

• Must have authorization to work in the U.S. on a permanent and ongoing basis

• Understand commercial and corporate law

• Ability to work in a highly autonomous role

• High-energy, self-starting, works well independently and in a team atmosphere

• Proven leadership skills either in school or professional experience

• Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills

• Organized and detailed-oriented with ability to multitask and adapt to variable work assignments across multiple legal departments and other functions in an extremely fast-moving environment

• Ability to prioritize responsibilities to meet multiple deadlines

• Ability to think strategically, while managing the details

• Experience using Microsoft Office including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

We provide these great perks and benefits:

• Robust health, dental and vision insurance plans

• Generous 401 (K) savings plan

• Education assistance

• On-site wellness, fitness center, food, and coffee service

• And many more, check out our benefits site HERE