Sr. Associate Attorney

A bit about us :

Our Client exists to help farmers and business owners, providing them with cutting-edge services in debt restructuring negotiations and bankruptcy.

Its client-centric model aims to help farmers and businessmen understand the depth of their problems and explore the opportunities for change available to them, including options they might not initially like.

We aim to help our clients find comprehensive solutions to their complex problems, not merely kick the can down the road.

Our Client is known for helping its clients emerge from their extreme and stressful situations with the best outcomes possible.

We are growing and we need a senior associate who can hit the ground running.

Why join us?

Remote Position!

Our work environment includes :

Modern office setting

Relaxed atmosphere

Flexible working hours

Company perks

On-the-job training

401(k)

401(k) matching

Dental Insurance

Flexible schedule

Health insurance

Paid time off

Vision insurance

Job Details

This position will be responsible for important work, including :

Maintaining excellent communication with clients, advisors, opposing counsel, courts, and other interested parties.

Supervising and assisting the firm’s qualified staff and professionals in evaluating the client’s overall financial, tax, and legal position.

Assisting clients in determining realistic goals then designing strategies to accomplish those goals.

Providing excellent legal services, including : legal research; drafting petitions, schedules, motions, pleadings, orders, and status updates;

and overseeing and analyzing discovery. The Senior Associate may delegate to Junior Associates and Paralegals to accomplish these tasks, but remains responsible for the final work product.

Representing clients at mediations, negotiations, depositions, and in court, whether state court, federal district court, or bankruptcy court.

Conducting new client meetings (also called case evaluations or initial consultations) for the purpose of selling legal services.

Systems Refinement & Management Duties

This firm utilizes a mixture of technology and carefully crafted policies and procedures to help leverage the power of the firm’s full team to the benefit of their clients and deliver a consistent work product regardless of the individual personalities involved in any given case.

Consequently, the following duties are critical aspects of this position.

Management :

Work with the owner of the firm, its professional legal administrator and / or Chief Operating Officer, as relevant, to refine and optimize the firm’s policies and procedures that are relevant to any workflows within the Senior Associate Attorney’s area of responsibility.

Train subordinate staff ( paralegals, legal secretaries, et. al.) on the firm’s policies and procedures, and audit compliance with the same as appropriate.

Cultivate expert familiarity with the firm’s law practice management software and other technological systems to leverage the power of these tools to enhance efficiency, transparency, and constancy of the firm’s work product throughout all assigned cases.

Systems Refinement :

Using and following the firm’s policies and procedures.

Making suggestions to continually improve those policies and procedures.

Cultivating expert familiarity with the firm’s law practice management software and other technological systems to leverage the power of these tools to enhance efficiency, transparency, and constancy of the firm’s work product throughout all assigned cases.

If the statements below appeal to you, then you may be our next senior associate :

You are familiar with bankruptcy and tax as the relate to distressed businesses.

You are an awesome juggler of tasks and can change gears quickly.

You are a team player, willing to pitch in if your coworkers are in the weeds.

You desire to become a preeminent lawyer advocating for farmers and businesses.

You abhor mediocrity and strive to consistently improve your work product.

We are really seeking someone who can hit the ground running. This is an exciting opportunity for a right-fit candidate to work directly with the owner, one of the leading experts in the country in distressed agricultural debt cases, Chapter 12 bankruptcy and other business matters and grow into increasing levels of authority and autonomy as the firm grows.

An ideal candidate will be excited by the opportunity to work with and learn from one of the foremost experts in this field;

embrace technology and a systems-driven entrepreneurial law firm culture; and have a passion for bankruptcy and tax law, particularly their interactions in the agricultural industry.

Education :

At a minimum, the Senior Associate Attorney must have a law degree from an accredited law school and be licensed in the state of Iowa or have the ability to be licensed in the state of Iowa within a reasonably short period of time.

Attorneys licensed in the state of Illinois are encouraged to apply as we have worked for farm debtors in Illinois.

Experience

The Senior Associate will have experience in bankruptcy and debt restructuring, along with a work history that demonstrates increasing responsibility in a law firm or corporate legal department.

Typically, the Senior Associate will have confirmed at least five Chapter 11 or Chapter 12 plans (or have equivalent experience on the creditor side) and participated in numerous related activities (motions to lift stay, motions to incur secured debt, motions to assume or reject leases and executory contracts, claim objections, plan objections, adversary proceedings, etc.).

An ideal candidate will have subject matter expertise in the following three areas :

Bankruptcy & commercial law.

Knowledge and familiarity with the agricultural industry.

Income tax.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

An ideal candidate will possess the following core technical skills :

Negotiation practice.

Understanding of how income taxes affect businesses struggling to survive and considering partial or complete liquidation.

Ability to evaluate probable outcomes in bankruptcy scenarios.

Ability to determine the priority of liens on real and personal property.