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Austin company seeks 10-15 year attorney with corporate and securities experience. This position will support operations and finance, including reviewing and preparing 1934 Act filings, supporting the investor relations team, coordinating debt offerings, and other finance-related functions. The ideal candidate has experience handling securities compliance matters, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, attention to detail, strong communication and presentation abilities, an ability to work confidently with executive management and extremely strong skills in negotiation and drafting.

Other responsibilities include: providing regulatory and compliance advice, training finance teams to assure legal compliance and adherence to company policies and procedures, and risk management.

The compensation package is attractive, and includes a highly competitive base salary, significant bonus opportunity, equity participation and excellent career advancement potential.

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National law firm seeks litigation attorneys for immediate contract assignment in Atlanta.  Experience handling employment litigation matters is desirable. The work is substantive and requires thoughtful analysis and discretion. Great resume-building experience and opportunity to work with a firm in growth mode.  Please e-mail resume and contract rate to csapire@sapiresearch.com.

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Corporate legal departments are keeping more work in-house these days to reduce costs.   For many, this means more work and fewer people to do it. To that end, many companies are taking advantage of the high quality of talent on the market now by increasing the use of contract attorneys.

While using outside counsel is still a necessity for certain highly specialized work, many corporate law departments are re-evaluating and increasing the work can be done internally.   Often, that work consists of routine matters, such as patent applications, document reviews, low-level litigation and contract administration. However, as law departments lean more heavily on temporary legal professionals, the project work is not always routine.   With increased federal regulation, more companies are turning to contract attorneys to handle large projects, such as corporate investigations and transactional due diligence.    When the project is completed, the contract lawyers are released.

“Our company has seen a dramatic increase in the use of temporary attorneys and paralegals by corporate clients,” says Joe Freedman, Chairman of AMERICAN Legal Search, LLC, a national legal search firm and recruiting industry leader. “The talent pool is better than it’s ever been, and our clients are taking advantage of it.” Freedman added.

As the work product quality generated by contract lawyers increases, temporary legal teams may play a bigger role in corporate law departments. With a continued emphasis on cost-minimization, this may be a catalyst that changes the legal industry.

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