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Title: Enterprise Legal: Senior Transactional Attorney - Senior Manager (Chicago/IL, Arlington, VA/New York, NY)
Location: USA-IL - Chicago

Organization: Legal
Location: Chicago, IL/Arlington, VA/New York
Level: Sr. Manager

*Must be currently based in or near Chicago, Arlington/DC, or New York or willing to relocate there on your own**

If you join Accenture you can make great ideas happen for some of the world's most dynamic companies. With broad global resources and deep technical know-how, we collaborate with clients to cultivate ideas and deliver results. Choose a career at Accenture and enjoy an innovative environment where challenging and interesting work is part of daily life.

Our Enterprise workforce is the engine that powers Accenture, enabling us to provide the capabilities and expertise that clients demand to help them become high-performance businesses. As our internal workforce, they continually build shareholder value by: efficiently managing and supporting all activities across our business, protecting the assets and reputation of Accenture, ensuring that we have the people and technology needed to execute our business strategy, developing and increasing awareness of our brand, and providing a range of skills to support our client teams, outsourcing units and other businesses.

The people in our Enterprise workforce play a leading role in our strategic and operational programs, acting as the agents of change within Accenture itself. They work in a wide range of functional areas including: human resources, marketing and communications, finance, legal, IT, facilities and services, research, business operations and sales development, and must continually evolve to meet the ever-changing demands of the marketplace to achieve higher performance both for ourselves and our clients.
The Legal practice provides or manages all legal advice and support to Accenture. We provide objective, focused, practical advice and solutions, based on an understanding of the law and Accenture's business. We work closely with each engagement team to find ways to maximize revenues and manage risk.

As a member of the Enterprise Workforce, acting as a legal professional the individual will work with executives and external clients on a range of commercial and IT transactions, including outsourcing and consulting agreements across industries and governments.

As a senior attorney/legal professional key responsibilities include reviewing, drafting, and negotiating a large number of complex client transactions within a corporate environment. Also responsible for advising senior company leadership on legal risks associated with transactions as well as managing and advising junior legal professionals in day-to-day business.

Key Responsibilities Include

Manage both in-house and outside legal resources

Oversee, counsel, guide, train and support contracting and junior contracting attorneys and, in some cases, other senior contracting attorneys

Stay abreast of legal developments affecting the company, its clients, and industries and synthesize the information to incorporate it into company's transactional practices

Educate senior company executives in regard to legal and risk management issues

Represent company's interests and interface directly with client counsel and negotiating teams

Strategize with senior company executives prior to client negotiations

Structure client transactions to be most advantageous from a legal and business perspective

Counsel, advise, and consult senior company executives based on accurate interpretation of contract documents and the facts of a business opportunity

Develop internal guidelines, toolkits, and packaged knowledge on various legal and business issues

Support, promote, and implement Legal Group initiatives

Travel: Some travel, up to 20%

Education

JD or equivalent work experience

Work Experience

Minimum of 8 years of legal transactional experience in consulting, systems integration, and/or outsourcing areas in roles with increasing responsibility, such experience should be in a law firm or in a fast-paced corporate legal/transaction group for a consulting, systems integration, and/or outsourcing services vendor

Experience negotiating Intellectual Property issues

Preferred Skill Requirements

Expertise in the areas of either Government procurement (State & Local, Federal & Provincial), or Health industry

Independently manage drafting transactional documents and correspondence

General understanding and appreciation of Intellectual Property issues as they apply to consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing transactions

Understand basic principles of Finance, Accounting, Marketing, and Management

Professional Requirements

Able to present innovative, original solutions

Responsive and follows through on commitments

Strong time management, prioritization, and organizational skills

Ability to influence, strong executive presence

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Proficient in MS Office suite of products

Demonstrated leadership in professional setting; either military or civilian

Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting; either military or civilian

Work Requirements

Minimal Travel required (20% or less)

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require now or in the future sponsorship by the employer for a visa.

Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Accenture is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women.