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The Corporate Counsel is responsible for providing practical, solution-oriented legal support to Pall's Aerospace business and North America operations. This role focuses on drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial and federal contracting agreements, advising cross-functional teams on legal risks, and developing efficient legal processes to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

This position reports to the Senior Counsel, Aerospace and North America and is part of the Legal & Compliance organization. This role will be located in either New Port Richey, FL or Washington DC and will be onsite.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Provide practical and solution-oriented legal counsel for Pall's Aerospace business and North America operations, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial and federal contracting agreements (sales, supply, services, distribution, maintenance, development, technology license, manufacturing, and procurement agreements), while ensuring compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and company policies.
• Support key organizational strategic initiatives involving Aerospace, North America operations, supply chain, manufacturing, technology development, and customer relationships by identifying legal risks and recommending practical mitigation strategies that align with business objectives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional business, engineering, operations, and procurement teams to structure, draft, and negotiate commercial and federal contracting agreements, translating technical requirements into contractual language and providing insightful legal advice that balances risk management with practical, business-oriented solutions.
• Assist senior counsel in advising on high-value transactions, complex risk scenarios, emerging disputes, and due diligence screening on third parties, delivering prompt and pragmatic advice on critical legal and strategic issues.
• Develop and improve legal processes, contract templates, training materials, and other tools to support efficient legal service delivery and ensure ongoing compliance with federal contracting regulations and evolving legal requirements.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• JD from a nationally accredited law school with admission to practice before any U.S. state bar.
• Minimum of 2+ years of experience in a corporate legal department or in private practice with relevant transactional, commercial, and federal government contracting responsibility.
• Experience in commercial strategy and federal contracts drafting, including identification of material legal, regulatory, and contracting issues, with experience providing risk-based business counsel.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Manufacturing industry experience, strong familiarity with contract negotiations.
• U.S. government contracting, and in particular, supplier flow-down requirements.
• Developing and improving systems and processes for efficient legal service delivery.
• Explaining complex legal issues clearly and concisely to technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Advising cross-functional teams, including technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Pall Corporation, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it's a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

The annual salary range for this role is $135,000 - $155,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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