Jimerson Birr

Paralegal

• Support trademark strategy, clearance screening, and USPTO filings, including ESTTA submissions, Office Action responses, and TTAB docket tracking
• Track and support Madrid Protocol filings for international trademark protection
• Prepare trademark brand-use guidelines and policing materials
• Support cease-and-desist work for trademark and other IP infringement
• Support copyright work involving work-for-hire language, assignments, and licensing
• Triage domain and name disputes, including UDRP coordination and takedown letters
• Support fast-turn contract review and negotiation
• Support outside general counsel advisory work and dispute prevention
• Prepare demand letters and dispute-prevention playbooks
• Support vendor risk management through security addenda, DPAs, and SLAs
• Support privacy policy and website terms updates
• Prepare and maintain employment handbooks and policy suites
• Support employment and independent-contractor agreements
• Support workforce matters including discipline, separations, releases, and restructuring
• Support HR investigations into workplace complaints
• Support trade-secret hygiene programs and onboarding/offboarding checklists
• Support operational legal audits across contracts, compliance, and HR
• Support policy and process mapping, codes of conduct, conflicts policies, and gifts/entertainment policies
• Support claims and risk review, including insurance tender letters and coverage issue-spotting
• Support the firm’s data privacy and cybersecurity incident-response playbook

Paralegal – General Business Advisory, Employment, Trademark/IP

Attorney

• Serve as a player-coach while balancing a selective personal docket with leadership of a small, high-performing team
• Handle entity formation, initial structuring, and core governance documents
• Advise on ownership, capital structuring, executive compensation, board operations, corporate authority, and shareholder relations
• Negotiate joint venture, licensing, distribution, co-marketing, commercial, vendor, customer, and SaaS agreements
• Support capital raises, investor diligence, debt financing, credit facilities, secured and unsecured loans, lines of credit, and UCC filings
• Run mergers, acquisitions, business-asset sales, and buy-side and sell-side due diligence
• Represent franchisors and franchisees
• Advise on enterprise risk management, insurance, indemnity, compliance, D&O coverage, data privacy, records retention, incident plans, tax issues, asset protection, and estate-planning alignment
• Handle crisis corporate actions, restructures, business wind-downs, and dissolutions
• Run weekly team operating meetings and review scorecards, staffing, case mix, SLA health, risks, and priorities
• Ensure work distribution and throughput meet utilization and SLA targets
• Drive adoption of playbooks, templates, matter plans, technology, checklists, and QA standards
• Coach attorneys and paralegals
• Own client satisfaction, retention, and expansion across the team portfolio
• Maintain alignment calls and decision logs
• Maintain a select personal docket focused on high-impact negotiations, governance counseling, and complex structuring
• Partner with Practice Area Managers on data integrity, dashboard health, and early-warning signals
• Own personal production and aggregate team output, process and technology optimization, client relationships, mentoring, and cross-team handoffs

Business Advisory & Transactions Attorney Team Leader – Corporate Transactions and Governance

• Serve as day-to-day counsel to business clients on licensing, compliance, and government-facing questions
• Run regulatory compliance reviews and filings tailored to each client’s industry
• Build compliance programs, industry-specific policies, training, and audit cadence
• Handle state and local business and professional licensing applications, registry filings, and license transfers
• Review marketing and advertising for compliance in regulated industries
• Advise on workplace safety and OSHA compliance
• Defend against license complaints, investigations, discipline, regulatory investigations, and audits
• Manage government procurement and contracting, including bid protests
• Challenge or respond to laws, rules, or regulations through lobbying or government affairs work
• Advise on economic development and government incentive programs
• Independently manage a full matter caseload from intake through completion
• Delegate work to junior attorneys and paralegals, review their output, and coach them toward greater independence
• Contribute to refining matter plans, forms, and playbooks
• Maintain budget discipline and meet revenue and utilization targets while keeping client work timely and accurate

Senior Business Advisory and Transactions Attorney – Regulatory Compliance, Licensing

• Serve as day-to-day counsel to HOA and COA boards across Florida
• Provide guidance on governance, budgeting, reserves, and operational decision-making
• Deliver practical legal advice on regulatory and compliance matters
• Draft, review, and amend governing documents, including Declarations, Bylaws, and Rules
• Support developer turnover and assist in structuring community associations
• Conduct document audits and recommend updates to align with current law
• Stay current on Florida community association law and regulatory changes
• Translate legal updates into actionable client guidance
• Help associations maintain statutory and regulatory compliance
• Assist with covenant enforcement matters and pre-litigation processes
• Support litigation efforts, including drafting demands, pleadings, and motions
• Guide assessment collection strategies alongside the firm’s collections team

Community Association Attorney

• Own matters day to day by scoping, budgeting, directing timekeepers, and maintaining validated plans
• Serve as primary client contact on most matters and escalate when risk, budget, or strategy shifts
• Draft and argue motions
• Take and defend depositions
• Manage discovery
• Carry matters to hearing or trial as a strong second chair and developing or actual first chair
• Mentor junior attorneys and paralegals
• Improve matter plans, templates, technology, or legal products with at least one concrete improvement per week
• Maintain timekeeping, service commitments, budgets, and on-plan execution
• Identify and document adjacent legal needs
• Run disciplined alignment conversations regarding scope, timeline, and expectations
• Maintain proactive client outreach
• Handle high-exposure business litigation, real estate development disputes, contested mortgage foreclosure, construction litigation, and complex commercial matters

Senior Litigation Attorney – Complex Litigation

• Serve as day-to-day and on-call counsel to business clients
• Review and negotiate contracts, vendor risk and security addenda, demand letters, and dispute-prevention matters
• Handle regulatory compliance and licensing, including filings, business and professional licensing, license transfers, complaints, investigations, and disciplinary actions
• Respond to agency investigations and audits
• Advise on workplace safety, OSHA compliance, regulated-industry advertising and marketing, government procurement, bid protests, and economic development incentives
• Advise on employment matters including handbooks, policies, agreements, restrictive covenants, confidentiality terms, discipline, separations, releases, restructuring, and workplace investigations
• Handle trademark strategy, clearance screening, USPTO filings, brand guidelines, copyright assignments, licensing, and domain name disputes
• Serve as primary client contact and escalate matters when risk, budget, or strategy changes
• Build compliance programs, trade secret controls, operational legal audits, policy and process maps, codes of conduct, conflicts policies, and data privacy/cybersecurity incident response playbooks
• Mentor junior attorneys and paralegals
• Improve matter plans, clause libraries, templates, technology, and legal products
• Manage timekeeping, service commitments, budgets, and execution
• Identify adjacent legal needs, conduct alignment conversations, proactively engage clients, and support pitches and cross-selling

Senior Business Advisory Attorney – General Business Advisory

• Serve as day-to-day and on-call counsel to business clients
• Review and negotiate contracts, vendor risk and security addenda, demand letters, and dispute-prevention matters
• Handle regulatory compliance and licensing, including reviews, filings, license transfers, complaints, investigations, and disciplinary actions
• Respond to agency investigations and audits
• Advise on workplace safety, OSHA compliance, advertising and marketing review, government procurement, bid protests, and economic development incentives
• Advise on employment matters including handbooks, policies, agreements, restrictive covenants, confidentiality terms, discipline, separations, releases, restructuring, and workplace investigations
• Handle trademark strategy, clearance screening, USPTO filings, brand guidelines, policing, cease-and-desist work, copyright assignments, licensing, and domain disputes
• Serve as primary client contact and escalate matters when risk, budget, or strategy shifts
• Build compliance programs, trade secret controls, legal audits, policies, codes of conduct, conflicts policies, and data privacy/cybersecurity incident response playbooks
• Mentor junior attorneys and paralegals
• Improve matter plans, clause libraries, templates, technology, and legal products
• Manage timekeeping, service commitments, budgets, and execution
• Identify adjacent legal needs, conduct alignment conversations, maintain proactive client outreach, and support pitches and cross-selling

Senior Business Advisory - Transactional Attorney

• Own matters day to day by scoping them, budgeting them, directing timekeepers, and keeping work within the validated plan
• Serve as the primary client contact on most matters and escalate when risk, budget, or strategy shifts
• Draft and argue motions
• Take and defend depositions
• Manage discovery
• Carry matters to hearings or trial as a strong second chair and developing or actual first chair
• Mentor junior attorneys and paralegals
• Improve matter plans, templates, technology, and legal products through concrete weekly improvements
• Maintain timekeeping, service commitments, budgets, and on-plan execution
• Identify and document adjacent legal needs
• Conduct alignment conversations regarding scope, timeline, and expectations
• Maintain proactive client outreach
• Handle high-exposure business litigation, real estate development disputes, contested mortgage foreclosure, construction litigation, and complex commercial matters