Highlights
This role will lead corporate legal initiatives, oversee outside counsel, negotiate complex contracts, manage litigation matters, and ensure compliance with corporate, employment, tax-exempt, and nonprofit regulations. We are seeking a Senior Staff Attorney to serve as a key legal advisor to executive leadership and provide legal support across the organization's operations and affiliated entities.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Los Angeles, CA |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 10 to 19 employees |
| Year Founded | 1985 |
| Website | http://www.questorg.com |
Description
Senior Staff Attorney
?We are seeking a Senior Staff Attorney to serve as a key legal advisor to executive leadership and provide legal support across the organization's operations and affiliated entities. This role will lead corporate legal initiatives, oversee outside counsel, negotiate complex contracts, manage litigation matters, and ensure compliance with corporate, employment, tax-exempt, and nonprofit regulations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Advise executive leadership on legal, governance, compliance, and operational matters.
- Manage litigation, administrative proceedings, mediations, and outside counsel relationships.
- Draft, review, and negotiate contracts and other legal documents.
- Oversee corporate governance, compliance, employee relations, and legal risk management.
- Supervise legal department staff and support organizational training and development.
Qualifications:
- J.D. degree and active bar admission in CA, TX, AZ, or NM (California preferred).
- 6+ years of legal experience, ideally in-house, nonprofit, public interest, or litigation environments.
- Experience with nonprofit/tax-exempt law, corporate governance, employment law, and litigation management preferred.
- Strong research, writing, negotiation, and leadership skills.
Open to Experience:
While senior-level experience is preferred, qualified early-career attorneys and recent bar-admitted graduates with exceptional research and writing skills will also be considered. Title and compensation will be commensurate with experience.
About Company
For over 30 years, The Quest Organization and its related entities have been a highly respected leader in Executive Search and Business Advisory Services, taking a holistic approach to finding not only the most talented individuals for “C” level executives and Middle Management Professionals, but making sure that our clients have truly defined their need both from a technical perspective and an overall “fit perspective. The hallmark of our success is the extraordinary experience and business acumen of our professional staff with a combined 50+ years of achievements in Executive Search and Advisory Services.
With backgrounds as CPAs in the Big “4″ and as financial professionals in industry, we are uniquely positioned to provide our clients with meaningful hiring recommendations, grounded in a thorough understanding of their overall business including their operations, finance, accounting, human capital and sales.
Our staff through their daily transactions in the employment marketplace and extensive participation in regional business organizations, is well positioned to provide candidates from mid level to CEO’s with insightful advice on career planning and positioning. Every candidate that we represent, benefits from a comprehensive interview to ensure they are considered for appropriate opportunities which match their capabilities, experience, desired compensation and quality of life attributes. We are known to provide the most meticulous interview preparation and follow through in the industry.
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