What success looks like in this role:
• Serves as counsel for an assigned departmental or functional area, or within a defined area of law.
• With guidance from senior lawyers, provides legal advice and counsel to management and associates on a range of corporate and business issues.
• With guidance from senior lawyers, engages with business leaders to understand direction, changes and objectives; provides advice on potential legal issues or challenges.
• Enforces Legal policies and procedures.
• With guidance or in partnership with senior lawyers, presents training to internal clients on specified legal topics.
• Collaborates with supported Finance & Accounting, Sales & Sales Excellence, Corporate Operations, Engineering / Product Development, Marketing & Communications and/or others, to ensure that product offerings, business dealings and agreements are legally compliant and protective of the company's interests.
May provide service and advice within or across areas described below.
• Works with supported stakeholders, helping ensure their understanding of and support for internal checks, controls and related governance standards.
• Supports all governance functions and creation of public filings.
• Supports entity management and maintenance.
• Monitors legislative and agency pronouncements, publications and activities.
• Assists in researching, tracking and updating privacy and data regulation related notices, policies, standards, guidelines and processes.
• Works with internal teams to understand business objectives and address potential privacy issues and considerations.
• Advises internal teams to ensure compliance with privacy regulations.
• Assists with development of public policy-related position papers, presentations and other documentation.
• Participates in new product development process reviews to ascertain compliance with IP policies and methodologies, and to develop IP for the organization.
• Participates in patent searches and evaluations in support of new product development.
• Supports efforts to evaluate potential third-party infringement of Unisys IP.
• Supports senior lawyers in IP disputes and litigation.
• Participates in trademark searches in support of new marks/rebranding.
• Engages with HR teams and management to understand and help address a variety of employment and labor issues, including recruiting, hiring, associate relations, equal employment opportunity compliance and issues associated with contingent workers.
• Supports broader organizational policy development, evaluation and related initiatives from an employment law / legal perspective.
• Supports efforts to address disputes within designated area of responsibility, working with outside counsel and internal teams.
• Supports internal investigations and manages administrative matters associated with litigation.
• Participates in / support subpoena response.
• Maintains accurate reporting of all in-house litigation, disputes, subpoenas and bankruptcy including upcoming deadlines, matter statuses, opening and closing and each matter submitted to outside counsel, defense matters, and judgements sent to collection.
• Supports eDiscovery functions for cases.
• Helps draft, negotiate and interpret commercial contracts.
• In partnership with more senior counsel, reviews, advises on and negotiates a variety of commercial contracts, including contracts covering software licensing, SaaS, professional services and online terms and conditions.
• Partners with internal business associates to develop and execute action plans to resolve issues presented in contract negotiations.
• Provides advice on operational legal topics, including data strategy and data licensing.
You will be successful in this role if you have:
BA/BS degree
US Law Degree and 5-7 years' relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and experience
Public Sector experience required
Technology Industry experience preferred
This role may require access to export-controlled commodities and technology. Therefore, to conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.
