Legal Counsel, Commercial
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Job Description
Legal Counsel advising on new and existing partnerships and agreements at BetMGM. Responsible for negotiating, drafting, and reviewing commercial contracts in compliance with laws and regulations.
Responsibilities:
- Review, draft and negotiate commercial contracts and provide strategic and proactive legal advice to business clients.
- Ability to draft and synthesize key clauses and create bespoke agreements in connection with unique business transactions.
- Leverage AI enabled tools to efficiently review and draft commercial agreements and support timely, data informed legal guidance to business partners.
- Adopt a collaborative approach with business partners to lead negotiations with partners, suppliers, and affiliates across different business functions.
- Manage multiple assignments simultaneously and possess the ability to correctly prioritize and triage the same.
- Maintain an effective and organized executed contract repository utilizing the company’s contract management system.
- Assess risks and use sound business and legal judgment to respond to questions, make decisions, and negotiate deals to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Inspire confidence in business partners by consistently providing well-reasoned legal advice and practical and creative solutions to complex issues.
- Proactively identify and advise on legal issues arising from potential and existing commercial relationships.
- Collaborate with, support, and advise business partners on a wide array of contractual and commercial matters requiring legal advice.
- Exhibit a strong work ethic and take ownership of complex projects and contract reviews with minimal supervision while demonstrating sound judgment and superior decision-making, multi-tasking, and problem-solving skills.
Requirements:
- Juris Doctor Degree required.
- Minimum of three years of being a licensed attorney with progressive responsibility in reviewing and negotiating contracts.
- Experience practicing law in a top-tier law firm and/or equivalent in-house experience.
- Experience working in an in-house legal department, regulated industry, and/or negotiating technology services, software, SaaS transactions preferred.
- Gaming license registration as required by applicable jurisdictions.
- Substantive knowledge and understanding of legal strategies and principles related to contract drafting and negotiating; ability to analyze and apply legal principles and precedents to legal issues; ability to perform legal research, evaluate alternatives and make sound recommendations.
- Basic proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and MS Outlook.
- Experience working with a contract management tool preferred.
Benefits:
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability Insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Pre-tax spending accounts including health care FSA and commuter savings
- Flexible paid time off
- Professional development reimbursement and ongoing skills training opportunities
- Employee resource groups
- Swag, ticket giveaways, and more!



















