Mid-Level Life Sciences R&D Transactional Associate Attorney (Remote/Hybrid, Multiple locations)
Company: Faber Daeufer & Itrato PC
Location: Atlanta
Posted on: June 26, 2022
Job Description:
Faber Daeufer & Itrato (www.faberlawgroup.com) is a dynamic,
independent law firm providing sophisticated, customized,
transactional counsel for life sciences clients in the US and
globally. Since its founding in 2003, we have built a premier
boutique practice working with over 2,000 companies, research
institutions and investors. Our firm includes 26 lawyers and 10
contracts specialists and paralegals and has primary offices in
Boston, New York and the San Francisco Bay area.Our firm is a
growing and diverse team of professionals whose collective
experience handling life science business transactions, in many
cases leveraging prior in-house operational knowledge, is
extraordinary in a law firm. We will maintain our established
standards of excellence by hiring individuals with the highest
professional capabilities and potential, a dedication to client
service and an enthusiasm for contributing to our unique culture.We
have an extensive practice devoted to counseling our clients
on:
- IP licenses and R&D collaborations between biotech and
pharmaceutical companies covering therapeutic product candidates
and/or discovery platforms
- IP license, sponsored research and collaboration agreements
with academic research institutions
- clinical-stage and commercial-stage CMC and supply chain
agreements for therapeutic products
- clinical collaborations, CRO agreements and clinical trial site
agreements
- company launch, venture financing, research foundation
financing, royalty financing, and M&A transactionsWe also have
an extensive practice devoted to counseling our clients on ordinary
course transactions supporting drug discovery and development
activities, including consulting agreements, services agreements
(non-clinical or clinical), material transfer agreements,
evaluation agreements, sponsored research agreements, academic
consulting agreements, in-licensing of compounds, processes and
platform technologies, clinical collaborations, clinical trial site
agreements, and CMC and supply chain contracts. We are seeking
experienced Associate candidates to join this
practice.QualificationsEducation: JD degree required, and admission
to practice (or eligible to seek admission to practice) in
Massachusetts, New York or California (and, if applicable for
hybrid remote work models, in the state of residence).Experience
And Substantive Background: At least 3 years of experience working
in a transactional practice at a private law firm and/or company
law department (in either case with strong training/supervision and
support), primarily concentrated in the practice area identified
above, is preferred. Familiarity with biology and chemistry
principles relevant to pharmaceutical design and function, with
types of commercial exclusivity for pharmaceutical products (IP and
regulatory), and with the regulatory framework for therapeutic
development and approval for commercial sale, is preferred.
Understanding of intellectual property licensing practices and
biotechnology business development practices is preferred. While we
expect to consider candidates with 0-3 years (FTE) relevant
experience, we particularly welcome candidates with more relevant
experience.Essential Capabilities: Candidates should be effective
in helping clients identify strategic goals, prioritize key issues,
and find and document pragmatic solutions to these issues for a
wide range of clients and transactions. Sophisticated communication
skills and the comfort and confidence to interact directly with
clinical, R&D and senior management at biotech and
pharmaceutical companies, CROs, academic institutions, and research
hospitals are crucial.The ability to prioritize and manage multiple
tight deadlines in a frequently high-paced environment is necessary
to achieve the productivity demanded by our service model.We
strongly value the ability to effectively teach, supervise, manage
and mentor junior lawyers and contracts specialists, and to work
collaboratively with colleagues to share expertise, experience and
perspectives.Technical Skills: Excellent legal drafting ability is
critical and must be accompanied by strong word processing skills.
Facility with common technology tools is expected, including
Microsoft Office, PDF document usage, document comparison software,
document management systems, and teleconference and videoconference
tools.Hybrid Work Opportunity and Training/Mentoring ProgramOur
offices are currently closed because of the pandemic. When we
re-open our offices for work, we can offer the hired individuals a
regular, hybrid work schedule that would allow them to split their
time between a firm office and their home office. We have a strong
in-house IT team and provide equipment, furniture, smartphone and
internet service, and/or other reasonable accommodations needed to
be fully-functional from home.We will consider candidates who are
unable to work regularly from one of our offices. But, we prefer
candidates who are proximate to our primary offices in Boston, New
York or the San Francisco Bay area, because we expect our senior
lawyers to participate significantly in our extraordinary
supervision, training and mentoring program for junior lawyers and
contracts specialists. We believe those activities, together with
maintaining and strengthening the firm's culture and interpersonal
relationships, benefit significantly from periodic, but regular,
in-person presence.Compensation/Benefits/AdvancementFaber was
founded by senior lawyers and contracts specialists who sought an
independent professional working environment, and a business model
that optimized four key elements - financial reward, professional
time commitment, working environment and culture, and intellectual
challenge.We provide our employees very competitive salary and
bonus compensation, exceptional benefits, strong mentoring and
professional development support, and work-life balance (reflected
in our annual target (not minimum) for non-principal lawyers of
1,600 billable hours). We will consider candidates who seek a
part-time commitment.We determine title, regular billing rate, and
annual salary and target bonus based on the relevant skills and
experience of the individual. Generally, our associates are paid a
FTE annual salary rate of $150,000-210,000 with an annual target
bonus of 10%, our counsel (senior associates) are paid a FTE annual
salary rate of $220,000-270,000 with an annual target bonus of 14%,
and our senior counsel and of counsel (lawyers with mature skills
and experience) are paid a FTE annual salary rate of
$270,000-310,000 with an annual target bonus of 18%. (We do employ
US-licensed lawyers who live outside the US. Salary ranges for
these lawyers are generally aligned but do vary based on the firm's
strategies for managing exchange rate risk.) All lawyers are
eligible to receive allocation of business origination and
retention credit (BORC) for clients where the lawyer has a
substantial role in originating and/or strengthening the firm's
professional relationship with the client (in collaboration with
colleagues in the firm). This BORC allocation provides an
additional annual bonus opportunity, subject to the firm's
determination of other performance measures.We have a strong
commitment to provide opportunities for learning and advancement,
including carefully constructed career ladders and on-going
personalized professional development planning. We provide
long-term careers for lawyers who want to focus on providing
professional service to clients and do not have timelines for
promotion/departure. We also believe that each lawyer has the
opportunity to become a principal of the firm if they want to
develop practice management, teaching, and leadership skills in
addition to achieving the highest levels of proficiency in
providing professional service to clients - since our inception
more lawyers have become principals of the firm through promotion
than through direct lateral hiring.Our benefits program is
exceptional, and (for US-resident employees) includes:
- PPO Medical and Dental Insurance Plans (In-Network and
Out-of-Network coverage), with our firm covering 100% of family
insurance premiums and deductibles for full-time employees
- 401(k) and Profit Sharing Plan, with our firm contributing 3%
(up to legal limit), and in past years contributing an additional
2% profit sharing
- Parental Family Leave up to 12 weeks, with all 12 weeks
paid
- Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability Insurance, with our
firm covering 100% of premiums
- a generous employee referral bonus program
- Black Civil Rights Employee Education Experience, with our firm
covering costs for employees to travel with their families to visit
the EJI Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and
Justice in Montgomery, ALEqual Opportunity Employer Pursuing
Equity, Diversity and InclusionWe are an equal opportunity
employer, and do not discriminate against any candidate or employee
on the basis of race, national origin, sex, marital status, sexual
orientation, age, disability, religion or veteran status. We are
committed to increasing participation by minorities and women in
the legal profession and expanding the opportunities for minorities
and women within the profession. We are proactive in recruiting
minority and women lawyers, contracts specialists, paralegals and
staff and strongly encourages the interest of these candidates in
our firm.We believe that we are better able to provide judgment and
counsel to our clients based on the diverse experiences and
perspectives of our team; we believe that we are better able to
provide employees opportunities for professional growth based on
our deep commitment to creating and maintaining a work environment
that is welcoming, inclusive and intellectually stimulating; and we
are an enthusiastic participant in community life through social
engagement, philanthropy, and pro bono legal service.
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