At Corporate Tools, we believe legal strategy shouldn't feel like a speed bump-it should drive the vehicle. We're looking for a Legal Director who sees law not as paperwork, but as gameplay. Someone who knows how to navigate regulations with a machete in one hand and a whiteboard marker in the other. If you're tired of the suits, the jargon, and the snail-paced "let's circle back" culture, we built this job for you.
You'll lead a growing team of talented attorneys in a company that moves fast, breaks boring rules, and builds actual things (yes, including software, services, and a lot of companies). You'll own legal strategy across M&A, global expansion, government contracts, IP, real estate, and the occasional delightful legal oddity. You'll report directly to the COO and work closely with execs across every department.
We need someone sharp, experienced, and deeply competent-but also weird enough to hang. This isn't a corporate gig pretending to be cool. It's a genuinely fun, radically human workplace doing big, ambitious things, and we want a legal leader who gets that.
This position is coded as 'Hybrid,' meaning occasional remote work is available. Ideally, the candidate will be located in the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene metro area, but we're open to candidates in surrounding communities within reasonable commuting distance. The expectation is that the person in this role will work consistently from our Post Falls, ID or Spokane, WA office to stay closely connected with local executive teams and actively participate in in-person meetings.
Wage:
Up to $200,000/year + relocation package.
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:
- Drive the legal where you want it to go
- Enhance our SaaS model, drive multiple acquisitions a year, help create the business strategy that is going to squash the competition
- Expand, grow, let's take this thing internationally eventually
- Level up! The team, yourself, the company. You'll be helping driving the ship to make us the legal team people never knew existed
- Be nimble and quick on your feet when legal changes that will impact our business are coming. Plan for this
- Liaise, integrate, relate, or however it works with the Government, let's get this going here
- Real Estate? Yes! Negotiate, contract, all that legal jazz
- Think past compliance to be more business minded and street smart when it comes to our legal
- Think through IP Portfolio management, put a plan in place, execute!
- Manage direct and indirect legal processes and communications as they arise
- Be able to communicate effectively your plans easily to team members outside of the legal space
- Avoid analysis paralysis
Additional Benefits:
- Company sponsored CLE's to keep your law skills sharp
Requirements:
- Previous litigation experience
- Law degree with 10+ years of progressive legal experience
- Experience being the legal decision maker in regards to business decisions
- Be a good human
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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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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.
