Lateral Attorney Openings
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Employment Associate
Gibbons is seeking an associate with 5-7 years of employment litigation and counseling experience. New York admission is required, New Jersey admission is a plus. Salary range for 2017 – 2019 law school graduates is $175,000 – $189,000.
Please send resume to Melissa Marquinhos, Recruiting Coordinator
Environmental Associate
Gibbons is seeking an associate with three to five years of experience in New Jersey environmental regulatory, transactional, and permitting areas, with a focus on Brownfields and wetlands redevelopment experience. Some knowledge of New York environmental regulatory, transactional, and permitting associated with Brownfields and wetlands development is a plus. Admission in both New Jersey and New York is required.
Please send resume to Melissa Marquinhos, Recruiting Coordinator
Environmental Attorney
Dynamic, distinguished environmental law group, recognized for its service in litigation, redevelopment (including Brownfields projects), real estate transactions, and regulatory and compliance, seeks a motivated, forward-thinking attorney to join its practice at Gibbons P.C., an established law firm headquartered in Newark, New Jersey, with additional offices in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Washington, DC, and Florida. We are looking for a senior associate, counsel, or junior partner with 6-10 years of experience in environmental law with respect to regulatory/compliance and/or litigation, as well as ISRA, site remediation, and due diligence experience. Candidates must be licensed in both New Jersey and New York, and the position will be based in the firm's Newark office with the opportunity to split time with the firm's New York office. Those with a portable business and/or the ability to generate new business will be highly considered. This opportunity is tailor-made for an attorney interested in working on significant, high-profile cleanup and litigation matters, some involving the region's most prominent developments and waterways, for a sophisticated client base.
Please send resume to Melissa Marquinhos, Recruiting Coordinator
Financial Restructuring & Creditors’ Rights Associate
The Financial Restructuring & Creditors’ Rights (“FRCR”) Group at Gibbons is seeking to hire associates in our Wilmington, Delaware and Newark, New Jersey offices. The FRCR Group is a growing and diverse practice with a national footprint. FRCR attorneys practice in all areas of bankruptcy and insolvency law, with a focus on sophisticated corporate reorganizations, out-of-court restructurings and insolvency counseling, and related litigation. Clients include official committees of unsecured creditors and bondholders, debtors-in-possession, Chapter 11 and 7 trustees, secured creditors and lenders, indenture trustees, insurers, asset purchasers, lessors, and other significant creditors. Judicial clerkship experience and admission to the New York bar (in addition to NJ and/or DE) are preferred but not required.
Please send resume to Melissa Marquinhos, Recruiting Coordinator
Intellectual Property (Patent) Associate
- Draft, prosecute, and manage U.S. and foreign patent portfolios related to small molecules and biologicals.
- Provide strategic counseling on all aspects of patent law, e.g., portfolio exclusivity positions and drafting of freedom to operate and patent invalidity and non-infringement opinions.
- Participate in and support patent litigations concerning small molecule and biologics (including ANDA litigations).
- Work closely with clients to identify and protect new intellectual property, and counsel and educate client’s scientists and product development/business development teams on intellectual property matters.
- U.S. attorney with a minimum of 4 years of patent experience in the pharmaceutical/biotech/life science field.
- Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
- Advanced degree in chemistry, biology, immunology, or biochemistry or substantial R&D experience is preferred. However, a bachelor’s degree with additional experience as a practicing patent attorney would be considered.
- Experience as an in-house lawyer in small molecule chemistry is considered a plus.
- Ability to work both independently and in a team environment. This is an extremely interactive role that requires excellent communication skills and the ability to both address complex IP issues and succinctly identify and communicate decisions to a team.
- Demonstrated experience in drafting and prosecuting pharmaceutical patent applications globally, as well as in conducting freedom to operate and patent invalidity and non-infringement analyses.
- Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to handle and prioritize multiple time-sensitive projects.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and a demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with minimal supervision.
- Ability to distill complexity and to communicate decisively with sound judgment.
Please send resume to Melissa Marquinhos, Recruiting Coordinator
Junior Associate, Real Property Group
Gibbons is seeking an attorney with at least two (2) years of sophisticated commercial real estate experience to join the firm's Real Property Group.
Requirements:
- Significant experience conducting due diligence reviews for real estate transactions, including title, survey and lease review
- Experience assisting in the preparation of closing documents and facilitating commercial real estate closings
- Additional experience reviewing and summarizing leases and purchase and sale agreements
- Experience coordinating sophisticated loan closings is a bonus
- Admission in New Jersey or New York, or both is required
Please send resume to Melissa Marquinhos, Recruiting Coordinator
Land Use and Redevelopment Attorney
Gibbons is seeking a land use and redevelopment attorney to join the firm's Real Property Group.
Requirements:
- At least four (4) years of land use experience with a private firm in New Jersey
- Admission in New Jersey
- Significant experience with applications before municipal planning and zoning boards
- Experience with county, state, and federal permitting would be useful
- Additional experience pursuing approvals for redevelopment projects would be considered favorably
Please send resume to Melissa Marquinhos, Recruiting Coordinator
Senior Attorney, Real Property Group
Gibbons is seeking a senior real estate attorney to join the firm's Real Property Group.
Requirements:
- At least five (5) years of experience as a commercial real estate attorney handling complex lending transactions
- Significant experience with commercial real estate financing (preferably borrower side), including experience independently negotiating substantive provisions of loan agreements, guarantees and other loan documents
- Significant experience with commercial leasing (landlord and tenant side), including the ability to independently review and negotiate sophisticated commercial leases
- Experience with negotiating purchase and sale agreements in connection with complex acquisitions and dispositions
- Experience with redevelopment work in New Jersey considered a bonus
- Admission in New Jersey or New York, or both is required
Please send resume to Melissa Marquinhos, Recruiting Coordinator