Lawyer - Government - Commercial Contracts

Lawyer - Government Contracts
Working for a national law firm, this is a specialist role reporting to a well connected, organised and professional supervising Partner. They have over 10 years of experience working to the highest of standards for many facets of Government. Areas of focus will be:

Major projects
Government contracting and procurement
Technology and intellectual property
Dispute resolution

Day to day work will include: Providing commercial and legal advice on many major acquisition and sustainment projects, resolving major contractual disputes within the relevant law and policy frameworks. Structuring and drafting contracts, licences, and inter-agency agreements, deeds, funding agreements. Conducting market research and procurement processes both in sole source and competitive tendering environments. Developing documentation for collaborative industry engagement processes, and offer definition and improvement processes. Assessing and structuring contractual allocation of risk and liability. Evaluating tender responses, assessing non-compliance statements, preparing negotiation positions and conducting negotiations. Cloud and data room arrangements, software licences, hardware and software support/maintenance agreements, and system integrator contracts; and IP arrangements (including IP ownership, IP rights and limitations, and IP planning and management) for major projects. Advise on the granting of IP rights and the scope of IP licences under contract provisions, including issues associated with software, technical documentation and third party rights. The beauty of this role is that the supervising Partner is willing to offer full training and mentorship for this specialist area so acting as their "right hand" you will be coached until you're confident to run matters.

You will need at least 2 years of commercial or government law experience but the partner can accommodate someone up to 5 years.

If you are looking to excel your career in this sector then please get in touch with Lisa Gray on +64 9 973 5470 or email ******
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