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Job Description:

Responsible to provide legal assistance and services, including to represent the corporation in general legal and business activities, and prepare corporate documents. Provide legal advice, analysis, and assistance for general business and utility activities. Negotiate, draft, and perform legal review of contracts, agreements, financial and other legal documents with legal provisions to protect the corporation. Advise Legal Department management and peers on legal conditions that may impact Tri‑State's interests and corporate activities.

Note:

There is one position available and the position will be filled at one of four job grade levels: Associate Attorney, job grade 9; Attorney, job grade 10; Staff Attorney, job grade 12; or Senior Attorney, job grade 15. This decision will be based on the qualifications and experience of the candidate selected, and Tri-State business needs at the time of hire.

Tri-State recognizes the value of a highly-engaged and committed workforce and provides an excellent benefits program that includes:

Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), Tuition Reimbursement, Flexible Work Schedules including compressed work week and telecommuting opportunities to work remotely up to 50%, Life Insurance, 401K, Long Term Disability (LTD), Short Term Disability (STD), Employee Assistant Program (EAP) and Paid Leave Benefits.

Senior Attorney

Hiring Salary Range: $183,000-251,000

Staff Attorney

Hiring Salary Range: $140,000-$191,000

Attorney

Hiring Salary Range: $110,000-151,000

Associate Attorney

Hiring Salary Range: $100,000-$135,000

Actual compensation offer to candidate may vary outside of the posted hiring salary range based upon work experience, education, and/or skill level.

Responsibilities:

• Provide legal assistance and services pertaining to Tri-State’s general business and utility activities

• Negotiate, draft, and perform legal review of contracts, agreements, financial and other legal documents with legal provisions to protect the corporation

• Examine, interpret, and advise on laws, rulings, regulations, orders, standards, and requirements

• Advise Legal Department staff, management and peers of legal conditions that may impact Tri‑State's interests and corporate activities

• Counsel and advise Tri-State staff on legal matters

• Meet agency and contractual reporting requirements

• Represent Tri‑State legal interests in legal proceedings, utility organization meetings, internal and external committees and joint participation projects

• Assist with corporate governance including board policies and resolutions

• Develop, review and revise corporate and departmental policies, procedures and programs

• Identify areas of legal risk and suggest for improvement

• Work collaboratively with internal and external counsel, consultants, and business unit staff on project assignments to help identify and mitigate legal risk

• Research, prepare and review reports, memoranda, presentations and related materials

• Provide leadership, strategic advice, business counseling, and expertise for internal legal resources and business partners to assist in addressing and solving legal, regulatory, commercial terms, and compliance issues

• Review, analyze, and investigate legal implications with respect to business decisions and events

• Adhere to company policies, programs and procedures

• Adhere to appropriate electric utility industry requirements, applicable laws and regulations from governmental, quasi-governmental and governance from organizations related to Tri-State and its subsidiaries

• Maintain compliance with all company policies and procedures and attain knowledge and remain knowledgeable of regulations, laws, standards, and best practices applicable to functional area.

• Because Tri-State has an obligation to provide continuous, reliable electric service to its customers, the ability to work overtime at any time of the day or week is considered an essential function of the job.

Qualifications:

Education and Training

• Juris Doctorate Degree

• Admitted and licensed to practice law in Colorado within one year from date of employment

Knowledge, Skills, and Ability:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including proof reading of own and others work product

• Work alone and in groups within the Legal Department and throughout the corporation

• Perform legal research and synthesize into written and verbal reports

• Prepare legal documentation appropriate to a targeted audience

• Ability to analyze and evaluate legal situations objectively, apply legal concepts and principles, and make recommendations for decisions that may have corporate-wide impact

• Ability to interpret, analyze and prepare contracts, agreements and other related documents

• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships

• Uphold the highest standards of discretion and confidentiality

• Self-motivated, able to take direction, and be detail oriented

• Appreciate and understand basic principles of finance, accounting, management, utility operation, and cooperative organizations

• Excellent computing skills using products such as Microsoft 365 (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), SharePoint Westlaw, and Everlaw

• Innovate original solutions

DESIRED AREAS OF EXPERIENCE

• Cooperative organizations

• Electric utility

• Contract drafting, negotiation, process management

• Regulatory and legislative matters

• Real estate transactions and water rights

• Environmental and permitting processes

• Financial, lending, SEC

• E-discovery, corporate litigation

About Us:

Tri-State is a wholesale power supply cooperative, operating on a not-for-profit basis, with 44 members, including 41 utility electric distribution cooperative and public power district members in four states: Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico and Wyoming. Together with its members, Tri-State delivers reliable, affordable and responsible power and energy services to more than a million electricity consumers across nearly 200,000 square miles of the West.

Tri-State was founded in 1952 by its member systems to provide a reliable, cost-based supply of electricity. Headquartered in Westminster, Colo., approximately 1,200 people are employed by Tri-State across five states.

Tri-State's electricity is generated from coal, natural gas and hydropower, with a rapidly increasing supply generated from wind and solar. Tri-State delivers power to its members through a transmission system that includes substation facilities, telecommunications sites and over 5,700 miles of high voltage transmission lines. Tri-State's transformative Responsible Energy Plan is reducing emissions, increasing renewable resources, developing new energy services and delivering more flexibility for its members.

Job Identification: 183

Job Category: Legal and Regulatory

Posting Date: 2024-07-11T21:07:47+00:00

Job Schedule: Full time

Hiring Salary Range: $100,000-$251,000

Locations: 1100 W 116th Ave, Westminster, CO, 80234, US

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status.