Our client, an international Fortune 100 company, has exclusively engaged us to identify another environmental attorney to join its legal team at the company’s Mid-West headquarters.  This will be the second attorney joining this company’s talented environmental remediation team this year.  Client prefers candidates to have around 4-12 years of environmental experience for this position; the level of responsibility with which this person will be entrusted will be commensurate with his/her particular level of experience. Candidates must have graduated from a top law school (first or second tier ranking) and have environmental law experience at an AmLaw 200 law firm and/or a large corporation. 

Responsibilities will include complex CERCLA case management including PRP group participation, allocation, litigation, negotiation with agencies and responding to agency requests for information.  Candidates should have experience with case management of legal issues involving remediation and reclamation on a global basis.  Ideal candidates will have experience with Superfund mega-sites, complex technological remedies including sediments and risk management.  Candidates should also possess experience counseling clients with respect to TSCA, OSHA, FDA, RCRA, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, sustainability and climate change issues, mining reclamation, and environmental due diligence in real estate and commercial transactions.

Additional responsibilities will include: selecting and actively managing external counsel and experts; establishing and monitoring financial reserves and expense budgets; coordinating with the client’s Corporate Risk Management team regarding insurance matters; and overseeing paralegals and administrative staff. 

Our client has an impressive legal department comprised of top talent and provides the opportunity for stellar attorneys to acquire new experience and expand their skill sets in challenging and unique ways.  Personality will be a key factor in securing this position.  This role, which reports directly to Managing Counsel, requires a self-starter who is confident, poised, collaborative, flexible, responsive and highly motivated.  Candidates must have strong business acumen, be service-oriented and have stellar written and oral communication skills. This individual will also need to excel at handling multiple projects simultaneously and exhibit a high level of integrity and maturity. 

This attractive position will allow a large law firm attorney to continue to perform complex and sophisticated environmental work; but in a setting that affords a better overall quality of life.  Relocation assistance will be provided in addition to the competitive compensation and benefits package.

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