Your impact
The Lowe's Legal Department serves as an innovative, proactive and strategic business partner focused on accelerating profitable growth while protecting the Lowe's brand. The Staff Attorney serves as a trusted business partner to provide legal consultation, advice, and practical solutions on day-to-day business activities, including routine policy and procedural improvements across several business units. The position is responsible for managing matters through all phases of litigation, including pre-suit demands, as well as counseling various business clients on risk and litigation mitigation strategies while balancing the company's practical business needs, capabilities, and objectives. The position will require managing outside counsel in an efficient and cost effective manner while producing quality results, handling certain matters without outside counsel, working with business members at different levels within the company, and working with other attorneys, paraprofessionals, and others within the legal department.
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What you will do
- Ability to manage and resolve litigation in a way that meets company strategies, within applicable budgets and authority, at times using internal resources only and at other times using outside counsel
- Manages litigation, arbitration, and pre-suit demands, with and without the assistance of outside counsel, in the areas of general liability and commercial and consumer litigation
- Provides day-today interaction and management of outside counsel on individual legal matters
- Provides broad-based, day to day legal support on common matters within functional areas, in some instances using existing templates or processes with some of customization required, and by supporting colleagues across the department
- Performs day to day core tasks on a highly independent basis, with minimal to some direction from supervising Senior Counsel or Associate General Counsel
- Serves as a trusted business partner to stakeholders by applying legal and business knowledge to align stakeholders on legal risks and mitigation strategies for day to day business activities
- Performs stretch assignments on an occasional basis, such as those that expand into new areas of the law, new clients, or projects
- May support more senior lawyers on various matters, by conducting legal research and proposing solutions on more complex matters such as regulatory investigations and consumer class actions
- Prepares and delivers trainings, memorandums for colleagues to present to business partners on routine legal matters. May co-present on complex legal matters with senior level attorneys
- Proactively identifies legal risks by assessing internal and external trends, including the regulatory environment and supports plans to mitigate and prevent future exposure
- Collaborates and assists on projects to improve processes and litigation management and broader projects across the department
- Serves as key point of contact for Director level stakeholders
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree
- Juris Doctorate Degree from an ABA accredited school
- License to practice law in at least one state (or foreign jurisdiction, if lawyer is providing services to Company affiliates in that jurisdiction).
- 3-5 years practicing law in a law firm or in-house legal department
- Ability to influence by translating legal risk to operational risk and practical solutions.
- Demonstrated legal writing skills
- Able to translate legal speak into plain language.
About Lowe's:
Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2023 sales of more than $86 billion, Lowe's operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts. For more information, visit Lowes.com.
Lowe's is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.
Starting rate of pay may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, position offered, location, education, training, and/or experience. For information regarding our benefit programs and eligibility, please visit https://talent.lowes.com/us/en/benefits.