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Legence

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10,000+ employees

🏗️ Construction

🤝 B2B

⚡ Energy

Construction • B2B • Energy

Legence is a Nasdaq-listed (LGN) provider of engineering, consulting, installation, and maintenance services that improve building performance and reliability for mission‑critical and technically demanding facilities. Founded in 1914 and now a Blackstone portfolio company, Legence delivers MEP engineering and design, program and project management, HVAC and process piping installation/fabrication, and ongoing preventative and corrective maintenance, with a strong emphasis on sustainability, net‑zero building design, and distributed generation. The company serves high-growth sectors including data centers, semiconductors, precision manufacturing, life sciences, healthcare, education, public sector, and commercial real estate, and reports large in-house teams of engineers, consultants, technicians, and craftspeople.

📋 Description

• Serve as day-to-day in-house point of contact and coordination with outside counsel on an active docket of litigation matters. • Review and advise on litigation pleadings, discovery responses, motions, and settlement documents. • Draft, issue, and administer litigation hold notices; track acknowledgments and issue periodic refreshers and releases as warranted. • Liaison with litigation vendors, including coordination of custodian scoping, data collection, processing, and invoice routing. • Review and advise business units regarding an commercial and construction-related contracts, including form AIA agreements, non-disclosure agreements, statements of work, master services agreements, vendor agreements, and partnership agreements. • Maintain database tracking active and threatened litigation matters. • Coordinate with Risk Management on insurance coverage analysis and status of claims. • Support annual external audit responses, disclosure committee preparation, and BU-level accounting and finance needs vis a vis active and threatened litigation matters. • Draft and review separation and severance agreements. • Conduct initial triage and investigation of threatened employment claims before referral to outside counsel. • Support employee handbook updates, state-specific addenda, and BU policy benchmarking projects. • Partner with Accounting and Finance Teams with regard to collection of past due accounts receivable. • Draft demand letters for past-due accounts and follow up on status of same.

🎯 Requirements

• Juris Doctor from an accredited U.S. law school. • Active bar admission in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction. • At least 3-5 years of legal practice, with a substantial portion focused on civil litigation in state and/or federal court, including: • Discovery (written discovery, document review and production, deposition preparation and attendance) • Motion practice • Pre-trial and settlement work • Strong commercial contract drafting and review experience, including NDAs, SOWs, and vendor agreements. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex legal issues into clear, business-oriented guidance. • Strong project management skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage a high-volume, multi-matter workload with limited supervision. • High degree of professional judgment, discretion, and integrity in handling confidential and sensitive matters. • Construction litigation experience, including familiarity with AIA contract forms, mechanic's lien and bond claim practice, change-order disputes, and OCIP/CCIP coverage issues. • Multi-jurisdictional litigation experience (experience within California, Minnesota, New York, Massachusetts, Virginia, D.C., Maryland a plus, but not required). • Experience with eDiscovery platforms, litigation hold administration, and data retention frameworks. • Familiarity with employment law concepts, including separation agreements, wage-hour issues, and state-specific notice requirements (no L&E specialization required — the Legal Department will provide subject-matter expertise and support). • Working knowledge of Microsoft 365, Purview, and enterprise legal operations tools.