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Job description
Pay: $120,000.00 - $250,000.00 per year
Why This Is a Great Opportunity
Advise business owners and organizations on meaningful transactions, contracts, and strategic legal matters.
Join a collaborative legal team that values thoughtful counsel, strong client relationships, and high-quality work.
Take ownership of sophisticated transactional matters while continuing to deepen your business law expertise.
Build your professional reputation and practice with a firm that encourages relationship development and long-term growth.
Work directly with clients and become a trusted legal advisor on important business decisions.
Earn greater schedule flexibility as you establish yourself, meet performance goals, and demonstrate consistent results.
Location: Columbia, MD or Rockville, MD. This role is designed around meaningful in-office collaboration, particularly while getting established with our team. Hybrid flexibility is available as performance goals and benchmarks are successfully met.
Note: Candidates must be actively licensed to practice law in Maryland and have 2+ years of directly relevant business transactional experience.
About Us
We are a Maryland-based law firm focused on providing thoughtful, practical legal counsel to individuals, families, business owners, and organizations. Our approach emphasizes education, strong relationships, technical excellence, and personalized service. We value attorneys who want to grow professionally, contribute to a strong team, and build lasting relationships with clients and referral partners. Confidential Employer.
Job Description
Counsel business owners and organizations on a broad range of transactional and corporate matters.
Draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts, operating agreements, shareholder agreements, and related business documents.
Advise clients on entity formation, governance, ownership structures, and business transactions.
Support mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, and other strategic transactions as applicable.
Identify legal and business risks and provide practical, commercially focused solutions.
Manage transactional matters from initial consultation through drafting, negotiation, and closing.
Build strong client relationships and serve as a trusted advisor on ongoing business needs.
Collaborate with attorneys, staff, accountants, financial professionals, and other advisors.
Contribute to business development efforts and take an active role in growing your own practice within the firm.
Qualifications
Active Maryland Bar license required.
2+ years of business transactional experience required.
Strong contract drafting, negotiation, and client counseling skills.
Experience with corporate governance, entity formation, commercial agreements, or business transactions.
Ability to independently manage matters while collaborating effectively with a team.
Excellent written, verbal, organizational, and analytical skills.
Genuine interest in growing professionally and helping build the practice.
M&A, succession planning, tax-sensitive transactions, or closely held business experience is a plus.
Why You Will Love Working Here
Work directly with business owners and decision-makers on matters that shape their companies and long-term goals.
Grow within a sophisticated practice that values collaboration, practical problem-solving, and excellent client service.
Develop your own professional relationships and practice rather than simply managing assigned matters.
Gain greater autonomy and scheduling flexibility as you establish a strong track record with the team.
Join colleagues who care about both the quality of the work and the long-term success of their clients.
JPC-2320
Benefits
Health insurance
Paid time off
Retirement plan
Vision insurance
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Worksite address
columbia, MD, 21046, US
Who can apply
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