Commercial Attorney

Elevate is recruiting a **Commercial Attorney** to join our Contracts team. As a Commercial Attorney, you work closely with in-house legal departments and their internal business clients. You will provide deal support and participate on projects to improve our customer contractual infrastructure, workflow, and processes. You will work independently on assigned matters but will also work collaboratively with other members of the Elevate team and Elevate service lines, as well as the customers in house team.

**Specifically, the Commercial Attorney will**:

- Review contracts and negotiate acceptable alternatives, working from templates and tools that you will help create.
- Facilitate escalation and resolution of contract issues.
- Update or draft templates, negotiate playbooks, and other contract infrastructure tools.
- Capture various pieces of information related to the contracts or matters that you support.
- Participate in or manage client projects to improve contracting efficiency, cost effectiveness, and knowledge sharing.
- Create reports and making presentations to clients and internal colleagues.
- Participate on task forces that strive to improve how Elevate services its clients and that enable our team to develop and grow.

**Skills for success**:

- Legal services should embrace business models and processes to create measurable, cost-effective results.
- Enjoy negotiating and drafting contracts.
- Like working with multinational companies, spanning different markets and industries.
- Embrace the use of technology tools to facilitate your work.
- Are knowledge focused rather than task focused; understand the importance of capturing and re-using information.
- Proven ability to work in a client-centric, deadline driven environment.
- Flexible, and willing to pitch in on matters and projects to better serve our clients, even if the work falls outside your normal scope of duties.

**Experience**:

- 4-6 of years of legal practice with at least 3 years of experience with commercial transactional support, including drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts, particularly services and supply agreements, software license and SAAS agreements, procurement and other inbound agreements.
- Experience conducting simple to complex legal research and memorandum drafting.
- Excellent track record in previous client support/customer service engagement.
- Experience with Microsoft Products like Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint
- Experience with contract management or workflow software tools is a plus

**Qualifications**:

- LL.B. (LL.M. is a plus)

**Company Information**:
Elevate is a law company. We provide software and services for the intersection of business and Elevate is a law company. We provide software and services for the intersection of business and law. Our legal, business, and technology professionals offer practical ways for global law departments and law firms to improve efficiency, quality, and business outcomes.

Our most recent achievements and distinctions include:

- Certified as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces® for Development 2025 by Great Place to Work®
- Certified as a Great Place to Work® 2025 in the US, UK, India, and Philippines
- For the ninth consecutive year, in 2024, Chambers & Partners named Elevate as a Top global services provider, ranking us as Band 1 (highest ranking) in all applicable categories (Contract Lifecycle Management, Litigation Services, and Flexible Legal Staffing) and as an Alternative Legal Service Providers in Asia-Pacific
- For the fourth year in a row, Elevate’s integrated law firm has been designated as a top law firm in Commercial Litigation in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers/US News & World Report Best Law Firms
- Newsweek awarded Elevate the highest rating in the annual ‘America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity’ and ‘America’s Greatest Workplace for 2024’ lists
- Elevate was named a top ALSP in Asia by Thomson Reuters’ Asian Legal Business in 2024

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