Corporate Tools in Post Falls, Idaho is building a team of 5 +/- lawyers. As we grow, we're looking to transition from kicking the can and reactionary legal decision making (otherwise known as firefighting), to using legal decisions to drive the company and steer our growth. This is a M-F 40 hour or less a week job. We don't have employees take emails home with them. We don't work after hours. We believe in using work to pay for a lifestyle outside of working.
As one of our "The Lawyers" you'll be working with a curated group of fun and talented lawyers to build from the ground up how we use legal to drive our company. Your work here WILL MATTER. Day like 45 or so after you start to see how much work everyone has squirreled away in their file cabinets for you over the years or people start to realize we have a smart team of in house lawyers ready to dig in and start dusting off all the junk on the corner of their desks we let sit for one reason or another.
It's an exciting time for us. It's an exciting transition. We should have built this team a few years ago... but we didn't. But we are building it now. How will it all work out?? Well. We're not sure, but we're going to hire 5ish lawyers over some time that are good humans and smart people and let them figure it out. If you're looking for a job that matters, please read on:
Wage:
$70,000 - $150,000 annual salary depending on relevant experience
Benefits:
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental and vision for employees
- Annual review with raise option
- 22 days Paid Time Off accrued annually, and 4 holidays
- After 3 years, PTO increases to 29 days. Employees transition to flexible time off after 5 years with the company-not accrued, not capped, take time off when you want
- The 4 holidays are: New Year's Day, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day
- Paid Parental Leave
- Up to 6% company matching 401(k) with no vesting period
- Quarterly allowance
- Use to make your remote work set up more comfortable, for continuing education classes, a plant for your desk, coffee for your coworker, a massage for yourself... really, whatever
- Open concept office with friendly coworkers
- Creative environment where you can make a difference
- No dumb benefits like free dog walking on the weekends that snobby hipster places have to make you feel cool, but mathematically won't cost the company much money because you won't use it
- Trail Mix Bar --- oh yeah
Responsibilities:
- Quarterback anything and everything legal. We do registered agent service, corporate filings, software as a service, and operate physical locations in every state. As the lawyer, you'd be the primary front line responder to anything legal in our operation. You'd be responsible for determining if you can deal with the problem or hire local or specialized counsel in the appropriate jurisdiction.
- You'll be responsible for how we operate legally. Are we doing the right things? Are we operating legally? Is the city mad at us for something? Is the state mad at us for something? Who's mad at us???? Who's going to be mad at us and how do we avoid it? Are we violating someone's IP rights? Is someone encroaching on our IP? We have a massive amount of Intellectual Property. Massive. It will be shocking to you... Tech, IP, and Data Privacy should be interesting to you.
- Maintain trademarks in all 50 states and federal trademarks
- Maintain servicemarks in all 50 states and federal registrations
- Manage UDRP and Icann registrations, complaints, and responses
- Maintain terms of service, privacy policies, and data collection and retention policies
- Help with HIPPA and PCI compliance regulations
- Help with random employment problems
- Help respond to subpoenas
- Manage all service agreements and legal agreements we make with vendors
- Manage all service agreements we provide clients
- 3-4 acquisitions a year. Stock purchases, asset purchases, website purchases. Some very large and complex
- Provide support to all employees for any type of legal questions and all managers to help make daily decisions better
- Explore and help craft new business ventures in the quasi legal services industry we work in such as offering trademarks, legal forms, and other legal services as a service
- Help run the company through better and smarter legal decisions
Not Your Responsibility:
- Litigation
Additional Benefits:
- Company sponsored CLE's to keep your trademark law skills sharp
Requirements:
- You find fulfillment in the work, not a title or ladder to climb
- You've built an ego shelf in your tool shed or garage and are willing to put it in storage there while employed here
- You're a good human
- Some experience with HR, general business and commercial property law
- Strong academic credentials including a J.D. from an accredited law school and current bar license
- Competitive Attitude: This is a hard charging role. We move fast and we grow fast and you will need to enjoy beating our competition and helping us do this with smart legal decisions
- Bonus Points: 5+ years experience with Intellectual Property
- Bonus Points: Experience with ICANN and how domain names work
- Bonus Points: Current experience in trademarks and service marks
- Bonus Points: You can explain what Discombobulating is
- Bonus Points: You can explain what Bonanzificating is
- Bonus Points: You can explain what Anti-Thought Leadership is
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What the Team is Saying
What We Do
Corporate Tools LLC was created to make starting, running, and organizing a business easier. We service registered agent companies, business filing services, lawyers, accountants, corporate secretaries, governance professionals, small, medium, and massive corporate conglomerates.
Corporate Tools LLC is family-owned and operated, employs over 1,200 good humans across the nation, and services over 3 million active businesses nationwide. As we've grown, we've maintained a 95% employee retention rate. We have no debt, no investors, no venture capital, and no private equity.
What does it mean to be family-owned and operated?
Well, it's not perfect. But growth, profits, KPIs, endless investor meetings, warrants, options pools, vesting, or manipulating employees to be indentured servants in exchange for paper shares that won't make you rich, aren't things we have to deal with here.
We try to do good work and see where it goes. That's our actual mission statement. We try to make our customers and our employees happy. We get to focus on that versus making investors happy. We are well aware of competing with startups, and VC and PE-funded, or worse yet, public companies' total compensation packages, so we bring it up. We are different. Our packages include an excellent salary and 401K to buy stock wherever you want. We try to make our overall benefits better each year as we grow. We offer tough challenges—focusing on the journey as the reward, not the finish line. We try to hire people we enjoy being around.
We're not a platform or an AI cool guy place. We're not software as a service/whatever is the cool thing that gives investors a reason to ask for a higher multiple on their next round of stock dilution. Whoops, I mean, investment for the future.
We make business entity compliance tools. We power over 50,000 Professional Services that do registered agent service, corporate filings, VoIP phones, credit card processing, and various tech products. Here's a few examples of industry leaders riding on our backbone:
https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/service-signup
https://www.registeredagentsinc.com/solutions/
We made a CRM system but focused on a whole stack of solutions for our business services customers and now we're pretty busy and could use your help. Thanks for looking!
Why Work With Us
A mid sized company servicing millions of clients, employing hundreds, but being family owned and operated with no debt, investors, VC, or PE in the tech space is unique. We offer stability, flexibility, and an opportunity to make a high impact almost immediately. We don't sell data to third parties. We're extremely open source and privacy focused.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
As a hybrid employer we have full-time remote employees and employees that live near our offices who have the option to work in-office or from home. There are just a few, select roles that specify and require some in-office time.
