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About the Role

Epiq Counsel is seeking a seasoned Commercial Counsel to support our client, who is a leading provider of innovative chemicals across a number of industries. This role will serve as a dedicated legal resource for our corporate client's business segment, working closely with internal legal and business teams to drive risk mitigation, compliance, and efficiency in third-party contracting. This is a hybrid part-time (20 hrs/per week) role, based in Morris Plains, NJ.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of legal experience , ideally as a General Counsel, Assistant General Counsel, or Lead Attorney in a product-focused business. In-house experience strongly preferred.
• Deep expertise in commercial contracts , especially customer-facing agreements under U.S. law ; familiarity with EU jurisdictions is a plus.
• Strong understanding of UCC principles , product sales, and global contracting.
• Experience in chemicals, industrial products , or life sciences sectors preferred.
• Willingness to work onsite at Morris Plains, NJ-based office 2 days per week.
• Independent, proactive, and results-oriented with excellent communication skills.
• JD Degree from an accredited institution.
• Active bar license in good standing in New Jersey.
• Epiq Counsel partners with industry-leading clients in support of their sophisticated interim talent needs. Must be interested in practicing in an alternative, fixed-term legal services model.

Support our corporate client on the following:

• Serve as an extension of client legal team, primarily supporting customer-side commercial contracts for the business.
• Review and negotiate sales and purchase agreements, NDAs, technology license agreements, and other commercial documents.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand business objectives and provide practical legal guidance.
• Advise on liability, indemnity, and other key risk areas in contracts.
• Support contract managers globally, acting as a point of contact for approvals and negotiation strategy.
• Assist with template revisions and simplification, especially in connection with spin transactions.
• Conduct training sessions on contract principles and best practices.

Benefits:

• Hybrid role - 2 days onsite.
• Compensation commensurate with experience and complexity of engagement.
• 401(k) with company match
• PTO and paid federal holidays
• Optional medical coverage; HSA Account; Wellness Program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefits (as applicable)

Epiq Counsel is an innovative legal services talent provider that offers meaningful in-house legal work and flexibility to sophisticated and credentialed lawyers and legal professionals. Our lawyers and legal professionals work on a wide variety of matters for Fortune 500 clients. Epiq works hard to provide our diverse legal talent with challenging work for sophisticated clients that does not require sacrificing flexibility or control.

Epiq Counsel takes the time and attention to understand each professionals practice areas, experience, and preferences to ensure they are presented with compelling engagement opportunities with leading law departments across the globe.

Should your experience meet the role requirements, the Epiq Counsel team will contact you. The Epiq Counsel team strives to respond to all applications; however due to the volume of applicants, we cannot always respond to every application.

It is Epiq’s policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual’s race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. Epiq’s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. Epiq is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. Pursuant to relevant law, where applicable, Epiq will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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