Senior Real Estate and Renewables Associate or Counsel

Job Description

At K&L Gates, we are looking for smart, imaginative and hard-working people with diverse backgrounds, experiences and ideas to join us.  Perhaps our search for talented visionaries and your search for important and impactful work lead to the same place.

We are seeking a mid-career real estate transactions attorney with 6-10 years of experience advising clients on leases, options, easements, and purchase transactions for solar, wind, and other renewable energy markets. Prior experience in a sophisticated law firm practice is preferred.

• General experience representing land owners and developers in wide-range of renewable energy development transactions; drafting and negotiating wind, solar, and mineral purchase and sale agreements, leases, easements, development agreements, construction contracts, crossing agreements, mineral interest waivers, etc.
 
• Knowledge and/or experience with energy projects is ideal; exposure to renewable development transactions is preferred
 
• Core real estate fundamentals are required skills, including title and survey experience.
 
• The following skills and experience would be a “plus” for any candidate: (a) timber and agribusiness; (b) tribal lands development and transactions; and (c) tidelands/shoreline leasing, easement, conveyance matters.

Seattle office location, although there is an opportunity for the right candidate to join in certain other K&L Gates office locations.

Candidates must be self-starters who possess the ability to work independently and as part of a team. We require strong academic credentials, excellent communication skills, and a commitment to providing the highest quality client service. Candidates will work closely with experienced lawyers who will provide active mentoring and opportunities to assume increasing levels of responsibility and client contact.

ABOUT THE FIRM

K&L Gates is a fully integrated global law firm with approximately 2,000 lawyers across five continents. We have experienced dramatic growth in the past decade and now rank among the largest U.S. based law firms in the world.  We take pride in constantly striving for innovation, imagination and an entrepreneurial spirit. We come up with big ideas and then roll up our sleeves to get the job done, guiding our clients through their most complex issues in a variety of industry sectors and across multiple regions of the world.

The industry recognition the firm has garnered in the past five years emanates from the foundation of a global community aligned on behalf of our clients. The people at K&L Gates are committed to working together to create a legacy for each other, the firm, our clients, and the communities in which we serve. We thrive in an inclusive and socially conscious environment that embraces diversity and takes a holistic approach to the career evolution of all our professionals.

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BENEFITS

We offer a dynamic work environment and excellent benefits.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

The Firm is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of the Firm that employment decisions shall be based on merit, qualifications and competence. Employment practices shall not be influenced or affected by virtue of a person’s race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, disability, military status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. This policy governs all aspects of employment including, without limitation, recruiting, hiring, compensation, benefits, promotion, assignment and dismissal. In addition, it is the Firm’s policy to provide an environment that is free of unlawful harassment of any kind including, without limitation, that which is sexual, racial, age-related, disability-related or ethnic background-related.