Public Company Staff Attorney

Los Angeles office of a BCG Attorney Search Top Ranked Law Firm seeks public company staff attorney with 5+ years of prior experience advising public company clients on securities law and corporate governance matters at a top tier law firm. The candidate will be keeping apprised of securities law and corporate governance developments, helping to evaluate trends and best practices, interpreting new rules, regulations and other guidance or policies affecting securities law and corporate governance matters, creating and updating form documents (including, among others, corporate governance policies, board committee charters and D&O questionnaires) and assisting with client alerts, client presentations and other internal and external resource materials. Will also be working closely with members of the Public Company Advisory group to assist with certain day-to-day securities law counseling, SEC reporting and corporate governance matters for the growing public company client base. Must be well-versed in SEC rules and regulations and corporate governance best practices. Prior in-house securities/corporate governance experience is welcomed.

The ideal candidate will display initiative, resourcefulness and an innovative spirit.

This is one of the area's oldest and most respected firms, and it is big. This firm also has a lot of really important cases and work. If you read the papers, sooner or later you will come across a major deal or two that involve these heavy hitters who, incidentally, also make terrific money. The culture of this firm, in our opinion, is friendly and conservative. What this firm does very well is give junior associates a tremendous amount of responsibility. Responsibility it good. In all respects, attorneys who come out of this firm are very competent and sought out practitioners. This firm is also very even handed in its compensation of associates. This firm is in a great section of downtown Los Angeles and we like the art there (we are told it is very expensive). Substantively, this is a really super firm, and there is a not a lot of billable hour pressure. Associates here are encouraged to do good work, and that appears to be the standard that is applied in their reviews.