Attorney

Job Description

Become an Attorney at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this role, you will serve as lead or supporting counsel on commercial disputes-from inception through resolution-developing litigation strategies that protect SCE's operational, financial, and reputational interests while supporting safe and reliable service to our customers. As an Attorney, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

Responsibilities

• The following job responsibilities are more generalized than the content above and apply to in- house attorneys across different sections of the department covering several specialty areas.
• Serves as Lead Attorney or First Chair on medium-sized or more discrete legal matters, but with growing complexity; serves as Second Chair or provide support on significant legal matters.
• Anticipates and identifies critical legal operating, technological, and environmental risks and works with stakeholders to develop appropriate and effective mitigation strategies.
• Provides legal advice on complex issues that may have significant strategic or performance implications for the organization.
• Drives processes and procedures for contracts, as appropriate and the implementation of best practice under the guidance of Senior Attorneys.
• Analyzes and drafts legal memoranda assessing the merits and respective legal risks and opportunities with focus of different problem-solving approaches.
• Creates business-oriented legal reports and correspondence and effectively presents legal information to senior management; helps to lead regulatory and enforcement matters which involves drafting and preparing of contracts or regulatory filings, as appropriate, and/or testimonies and reports, and advocating company positions at hearings.
• Influences specialist legal operations and projects in a way that manages key legal and regulatory risks, while balancing the interests of all stakeholders.
• Leads the negotiating and drafting of a wide variety of agreements or submissions.
• Participates in the designing of the legal strategy for draft proposed legislation.
• Oversees, strategically and cost-effectively, the management and partnership with outside counsel contentious/ litigation matters.
• A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and hold a Juris Doctor (J.D.); member of California bar or willing to obtain license.
• Three or more years of experience practicing as an attorney; demonstrates experience handling moderately sophisticated legal matters independently or discrete aspects of a larger complex matter.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience handling commercial litigation matters, as attorneys in this role handle a wide range of commercial disputes, including breach of contract, property rights disputes, and business loss claims.
• Trial, arbitration, deposition, and law-and-motion experience, as SCE attorneys primarily handle matters in-house while partnering with outside counsel as appropriate. This role provides ongoing opportunities to refine and develop litigation and courtroom skills through hands-on in-house litigation and collaboration with experienced counsel.
• Excellent written and oral advocacy, including experience drafting pleadings, motions, briefs, and business-oriented legal memoranda, and presenting complex issues clearly to internal clients and leadership.
• Ability to manage matters independently, while also working effectively as part of a team and collaborating with senior attorneys, paralegals, and cross-functional business partners.

Additional Information

• This position's work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
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• Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
• The primary work location for this position is Rosemead, California. However, the successful candidate may also be asked to work for an extended amount of time at (alternate work location).
• Occasional travel is required for court appearances, depositions, and field visits within SCE's service territory.