SCS Engineers is looking for someone to serve as Chief of Staff to the General Counsel, driving the Legal Department’s strategic priorities, operations, and cross-functional alignment while ensuring effective resource allocation, budgeting, and execution of key initiatives. You will provide leadership across corporate governance, intellectual property, compliance, and risk management, while acting as a central liaison to senior leadership, the Board, and internal stakeholders. You will oversee contract lifecycle management and legal technology modernization, enhancing processes, systems, and data-driven decision-making to improve efficiency and mitigate risk across the organization. This position will be based in our Long Beach Headquarters with a minimum of 3 days/week in the office required. 

Legal Operations Management: 

• Develop, revise, and oversee the Legal Group’s policies and procedures; monitor legislative changes and changes to business operations and coordinate updates to company policies and procedures.
• Manage department budget and vendors, including external counsel billing arrangements.
• Liaise with General Counsel to ensure the legal team is resourced correctly (including assisting with workload distribution, employee management, hiring, compensation and performance evaluations) to achieve the department’s goals.
• Ensure strategic projects and key initiatives are moving forward in a timely manner, keeping the General Counsel continuously apprised of the various workstream status.
• Serve as primary department liaison for collaboration with the Company’s Accounting, Human Resources, and Information Technology departments to ensure alignment with corporate directives.
• Track and ensure compliance with relevant continuing legal education requirements for Company’s attorneys.
• Assist General Counsel with preparing and/or presenting materials related to meetings with the legal group, senior executives, other internal departments, or the Board.
• Assist with legal engagement letters, invoice tracking, and invoice approval process.
• Develop database for, and filing system for, the company’s legal matters.  
• Manage relationships with registered agents and various external counsel.
• Provide litigation support, including communications regarding the preservation of records and the collection of evidence in response to discovery requests and regulatory inquiries.

Corporate Governance:

• Support corporate governance activities, including board and committee materials
• Oversee corporate governance and act as company coordinator for the Company’s subsidiaries.  Maintain minute books and records; draft corporate resolutions and consents; prepare formation/merger/dissolution filings associated with corporate subsidiaries
• Create and maintain legal entity organizational charts.
• Monitor government compliance filings including annual informational filings, business qualifications and tax filings.

Intellectual Property:

• Coordinate and oversee the IP docket.
• Coordinate with external counsel to maintain the company's copyright and trademark portfolio.
• Oversee and develop the Company’s strategies for protecting its valuable IP.

 

Compliance & Risk Management: 

• Support the company’s insurance & enterprise risk management program.
• Coordinate and assist with project and enterprise risk management initiatives and meetings;
• Secure and manage insurance policies, evaluating deductibles, premiums, and coverage limits;
• Serving as the primary liaison between internal departments and insurance carriers to resolve major corporate claims;
• Ensuring corporate policies align with state regulations and internal risk-management guidelines;
• Coordinate certificates of insurance; and
• Assist in overseeing the Company's contractor and professional licensing process and tracking, including ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. 

Contract review and contract management process:

• Assist in revising and updating template-based agreements (NDAs, MSAs, etc.) based on internal protocols.
• Develop the Company’s Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) system from intake to execution, ensure proper approvals, execution, maintain digital contract repositories, and track contractual obligations/critical milestones.
• Develop, implement, and oversee the document execution process and oversee data base to house all company contracts so they can be scanned by an AI tool.
• Point of contact with IT for the development of AI programs for use by the Legal Department.

• Bachelor's degree required.  Degree in Business Administration or an MBA is preferred. 
• Minimum of fifteen (15) years of experience in a law firm or in-house counsel environment required.
• Paralegal Certificate or Law Degree required.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and Copilot.

USD $155,000.00 - USD $210,000.00 /Yr.

Please note that our pay ranges are determined by several factors, including relevant experience, internal pay equity, and location. They do not include any of the amazing benefits of being an employee-owner, which are listed below.

SCS is building a world where environmental systems and infrastructure strengthen the health, safety and resilience of communities — from reducing methane emissions at landfills to producing alternative energy, from repurposing contaminated properties to sequestering carbon.

As a 100% employee-owned firm, we bring a long-term perspective, personal ownership and shared success to everything we do. We live our values every day: We care. We are a team. We are tenacious.

Join us and be part of a team where your work has real impact — on the world and on your own growth.

As a growing firm, we offer excellent opportunities for career advancement and a comprehensive package, including:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability Insurance
• 100% employer- funded Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) and 401K including employer match
• Annual Bonus Program
• Student Debt Employer Contribution Program
• Paid holidays, PTO and Paid Parental Leave

SCS Engineers is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). SCS provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran or disabled status.

If you have questions, difficulty using our online system and/or you need an accommodation due to a disability then please contact us about your interest in employment at recruiting@scsengineers.com.

Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act, SCS does not conduct criminal background checks until after a conditional job offer has been extended. All qualified Applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment. You can find a list of job duties of the specific job position you have applied, which SCS reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship that could lead to the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment after background checks are completed.