Thomas Oakley PLLC is seeking a corporate associate to join our team in Cambridge, Massachusetts with an opportunity to relocate to Denver, Colorado. We are a non-traditional law firm serving corporate clients in furtherance of our public interest mission. We are looking to add an associate to our corporate staff primarily supporting our paid corporate legal work. A successful job candidate will have an ability to work on complex corporate legal issues and an interest in supporting highly relevant public interest causes.
You must have strong academic credentials, and the skills and outlook needed to practice corporate law in our firm: strong initiative and ownership, emotional intelligence, deliberate organization, logical reasoning, clear communication, creativity, a collaborative mindset, and a good sense of humor. You will join a small but growing team that is looking to expand rapidly and build a practice that performs at the highest level and makes the world a better place.
You can expect to work directly with early- and mid-stage startups creating and reinventing some of the today’s most exciting technologies and will have significant opportunity to support our public interest work. Our paid client work primarily involves venture funding, commercial transactions, acquisitions and spinoffs, and general corporate counseling.
Salary is between $100,000 to $125,000 depending on experience.
Qualifications:
· Admitted to practice law in Massachusetts or Colorado
(or eligibility and willingness to apply for admission)
· Strong academic credentials
· Previous professional experience, whether in the legal or another field, is a plus
We believe that good attorneys come from many different backgrounds and do not consider previous corporate legal experience a strict requirement for this position. Success in our firm is much more heavily influenced by an appetite and capacity to learn and taking pride in one’s work.
About us:
We believe that a rewarding career is built on impactful work and meaningful relationships.
Our mission is to provide world-class representation in high value legal markets, and to leverage our for-profit practice to provide public interest services in areas vital to a just society: systemic racism and bias, especially in the criminal justice system; gender equity; LGBTQ rights; socio-economic inequity; and protection of refugees and asylum seekers.
Our firm does not aim to maximize partner profits; instead, we seek to provide sufficient compensation to a group of employees and partners that creates a platform enabling us all to work for the public interest causes that matter to us and our communities.
To Apply:
Please send a resume and cover letter to