Corporate Counsel

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Mooresville, NC, USA
Hybrid
Senior level
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The Role
Corporate Counsel serves as a strategic legal advisor to business leaders, identifying and mitigating legal risks, managing civil litigation, drafting legal documents, monitoring regulatory developments, and providing practical solutions. The role independently handles complex matters, supports strategic initiatives, delivers legal training, communicates with senior stakeholders, and mentors attorneys and staff.
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Do your Best Work in Mooresville
This position is based at our headquarters in Mooresville, North Carolina. Our corporate office is a space where you can collaborate and do your best work. Take a walk, grab a bite (or a cup of coffee), work out or get a check-up - we invest in you so you can find your inspiration.
Your Impact
The Lowe's Legal Department serves as an innovative, proactive and strategic business partner focused on accelerating profitable growth while protecting the Lowe's brand. The Corporate Counsel provides proactive legal consultation and advice on day-to-day matters and key functional priorities of their business client. This role should have deep understanding of at least one area of law or have mid-level understanding of three or more areas of law or lines of business. The Corporate Counsel handles matters independently and proactively consults with leadership on complex work.
What You Will Do
  • Serves as the trusted advisor and key point of contact for Director level stakeholders on key functional initiatives and may engage with VPs on more complex issues.
  • Applies legal and business knowledge to identify legal risks by assessing internal and external trends, including the regulatory environment, and develops mitigation strategies and provides solutions-based advice on key functional priorities of their business client.
  • Handles matters independently and proactively consults with leadership on complex work.
  • Delivers practical solutions to clients using their knowledge of business and legal experience to drive business results.
  • Collaborates and provides input on complex projects impacting the business' functional strategic priorities.
  • Prepares and delivers trainings and memorandums to present to business partners on routine and complex legal matters.
  • Drafts and executes legal documents and gathers relevant case related information using multiple sources and methods.
  • Monitors developments, including proposed legislation and court decisions, related to company activities to evaluate their impact upon operations.
  • Serves as a mentor to lower-level attorneys and staff. May manage 1-2 support staff.

Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement, if applicable
  • Other Juris Doctorate Degree from an ABA accredited school or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement, if applicable
  • Meaningful experience handling civil litigation, including primary responsibility for managing matters through multiple stages of litigation.
  • 5-10 years practicing law in a law firm or in-house legal department
  • Ability to influence by translating legal risk to operational risk and providing practical solutions.
  • Effective, concise communicator.
  • Demonstrated legal writing skills
  • License to practice law in at least one state (or foreign jurisdiction, if lawyer is providing services to Company affiliates in that jurisdiction).

About Lowe's
Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 100 home improvement company with total fiscal year 2025 sales of more than $86 billion. Lowe's employs approximately 300,000 associates and operates over 1,750 home improvement stores, 540 branches and 120 distribution centers. Lowe's is a core value S&P 500 equity stock and a dividend aristocrat. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information, visit Lowes.com .
Lowe's is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • Juris Doctor degree from an ABA-accredited school or equivalent experience
  • Meaningful experience handling civil litigation through multiple stages
  • 5-10 years practicing law in a law firm or in-house legal department
  • Ability to translate legal risk into operational risk and provide practical solutions
  • Effective, concise communication skills
  • Demonstrated legal writing skills
  • License to practice law in at least one state or applicable foreign jurisdiction

What the Team is Saying

Lowe’s Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Retirement Support — A 401(k) match up to 4.25%—with early eligibility and immediate vesting—is repeatedly highlighted, including access for regular part-time associates. Feedback suggests this makes retirement benefits a notable strength of the package.
  • Equity Value & Accessibility — An Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a 15% discount allows associates to buy company stock on favorable terms. Feedback suggests this ownership opportunity meaningfully supplements base compensation.
  • Parental & Family Support — Eligible full-time associates can receive up to 10 weeks of paid maternity leave and 4 weeks of paid parental leave, with adoption assistance and some fertility-related coverage also noted. Descriptions emphasize these as core elements of the family-support offering.

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The Company
HQ: Mooresville, NC
300,000 Employees
Year Founded: 1921

What We Do

It’s curious to think of innovation and stability co-existing. But we pair a 100-year track record of success with a hunger to do things differently. Everyone is in the work — tackling complex problems where your impact can build back or build up the communities we serve. We fill our halls with curious minds from all walks of life. Our differences make us stronger, which is why our leaders build cultures of recognition and inclusion. You are heard, and your curiosities are celebrated and championed here.

Why Work With Us

We have built a space where the curious can move freely. Up in title, up in skills, to the side with teams, or back to try something completely new. We help you find your path — because when you win, we all win.

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