Hybrid General Counsel

at Lyon

• Job title: General Counsel
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $125,000 - $140,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Professional Certificate
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Little Rock, United States

About the role

• Senior legal counsel providing strategic legal advice for Lyon College’s operations and compliance. Overseeing legal affairs across education, health care, and corporate governance areas.

Responsibilities

• Performing and managing work regarding Board governance, including preparation and maintenance of Board and Board Committee materials, resolutions, minutes and other documents.
• Preparing, reviewing and negotiating contracts, leases, loan documents, other legal documents, correspondence, resolutions, opinions and general corporate documents and agreements.
• Maintaining strong relationships with Trustees, the President, College officers, all College component heads, and other internal stakeholders, committees and task forces in order to anticipate and understand legal risks and needs; responding promptly to requests from internal stakeholders for legal services related to the business of the College.
• Maintaining strong relationships with the College’s external auditors, accountants, tax experts, outside legal counsel, and other consultants.
• Developing and reviewing the College’s policies and guidelines for legal and regulatory compliance sufficiency, and providing review and recommendations regarding regulatory, corporate governance or other legal compliance.
• Providing legal insight and advice in areas including, without limitation, education law, health care law, property law, intellectual property law, employment law, and government relations.
• Identifying areas of legal risk and providing advice regarding such risk; including intellectual property and other legal risks associated with the College’s Marketing and Creative Design efforts.
• Working with, and managing the work of, the College’s outside legal counsel.
• Other responsibilities may be established as needed.

Requirements

• JD degree from an ABA accredited law school.
• Licensed to practice law in the State of Arkansas.
• 5 years of substantial business and corporate law experience.
• Corporate In-house attorney experience preferred.
• Higher education law experience preferred.
• Excellent oral, written and presentation communications skills; ability to explain complex legal concepts to non-attorneys.
• Excellent legal analysis, problem solving and legal writing skills.
• Excellent interpersonal, communications, organizational, planning, project management and time management skills.