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Job description
Epiq Counsel is seeking a Commercial Counsel to support our client, a Fortune 50 home improvement retailer, across three of its fastest-moving business units.
This is an interim engagement for a commercial generalist who likes variety and likes being close to the business. You'll draft and negotiate commercial agreements — mostly vendor-side, some with business customers — and spend the rest of your time as the first call for business leaders when something comes up: a consumer waiver that needs reworking, a rental fleet issue, a policy that needs a legal read before it goes out. No two clients you support look alike, and there is no playbook for most of what lands on your desk. That is the appeal.
About the Client
Our client is one of the largest retailers in the world. The businesses this role supports — professional customer services, installation services, and equipment and vehicle rental — together represent roughly $9 billion in revenue and are both customer-facing and vendor-facing. Legal sits close to the business: your clients are the directors and senior directors running these units, and the Associate General Counsel you'll report to expects attorneys to be direct, curious, and collaborative.
Duration: Defined-term engagement, with potential to extend
Hours: Full-time, approximately 40 hours per week
Work Model: Hybrid, based in the Atlanta area
Start Date: As soon as available
Client Exposure: Direct work with business leaders at the Director and Senior Director level across three business units; reports to the Associate General Counsel
Compensation: $100/hr (~$200,000 per year annualized over 40 hours per week)
Benefits: Market-beating benefits in the alternative legal services space (healthcare, paid vacation, paid holidays, paid bar dues), plus thoughtful engagement support and coaching
Responsibilities
Commercial Contracts (~60%)
Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements across the professional services, installation, and rental businesses — primarily with vendors and with business customers
Own the moderate-complexity contract flow end to end, escalating only what genuinely needs the Associate General Counsel's attention
Review and advise on consumer-facing documents, including service waivers and opt-out terms
Support internal policy drafting and review, including a policy currently in development
General Counsel Support & Problem-Solving (~40%)
Serve as the day-to-day legal contact for business leaders across the three units — identify the issue, size the risk, and get to a practical answer
Advise on operational matters as they arise in the rental business, including theft, loss, and customer disputes involving vehicles and equipment
Take ownership of live matters with business clients after an initial ramp working alongside the Associate General Counsel
Bring a generalist's judgment to questions that span consumer, commercial, and operational law, and know when to pull in specialists or outside counsel
Qualifications
JD and active U.S. law license in good standing
Substantial experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, ideally in-house at a retailer, consumer-services company, or other operationally complex business
Demonstrated generalist range — comfortable advising on unfamiliar issues without a template and building the answer from first principles
Strong commercial judgment and a practical, solutions-oriented approach to risk
Direct communication style, intellectual humility, and curiosity — willing to ask questions rather than assume, and to check reasoning before acting
Excellent drafting and communication skills, with credibility in front of senior business leaders
Preferred Experience
In-house experience at a retailer, consumer-services, home improvement, or construction-adjacent company
Familiarity with consumer-protection requirements, waivers, and multi-state consumer regulatory issues
Exposure to fleet, rental, leasing, or asset-loss matters
Prior interim or secondment engagements
Why This Role
This is a chance to be a true commercial generalist inside one of the most operationally sophisticated legal departments in retail — real contract ownership plus a steady stream of "what do we do about this?" questions from business leaders who want a partner, not a gatekeeper. It suits an attorney who is energized by variety, wants meaningful business exposure, and is looking for a full-time interim engagement with the flexibility and support of the Epiq Counsel model.
About Epiq Counsel
Epiq Counsel is an innovative legal services talent provider that offers meaningful work and flexibility to sophisticated, credentialed lawyers and legal professionals. Our lawyers work on a wide variety of matters for leading organizations across the U.S. Epiq works hard to provide our diverse legal talent with challenging, high-quality work that does not require sacrificing flexibility or control. We take the time to understand each legal professional's practice areas, experience, and preferences to ensure alignment with sophisticated interim in-house opportunities. Leverage our network to work with organizations in need of top-tier legal services, and take the next step in your career by joining a vibrant community of Epiq legal professionals.
It is Epiq’s policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual’s race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. Epiq’s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. Epiq is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of this request. Pursuant to relevant law, where applicable, Epiq will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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Worksite address
atlanta, GA, 30383, US
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