Attorney Senior - Litigation

ALLETE is headquartered in Duluth, Minnesota, on beautiful Lake Superior, and has operations throughout the United States.

We invest in energy-centric businesses and transmission infrastructure.

Our companies include clean-energy producers and developers, and regulated utilities that already deliver more than 50% renewable energy.

Each of our businesses—Minnesota Power; Superior Water, Light & Power; ALLETE Clean Energy; New Energy Equity; ALLETE Renewable Resources; and BNI Energy—plays a unique and significant role in ALLETE's sustainability-in-action strategy.

Our culture drives excellence through our shared values of integrity, safety, people, and the planet.

RESPONSIBILITIES:


* Leads the delivery of legal services in the areas of litigation and wildfire risk mitigation and/or has direct reports as part of the functional area leadership role.


* Provides legal guidance to the executive team and other departments on litigation and wildfire-related matters.


* Represents the company's interests or manages outside counsel representing the Company in court, arbitration, and other legal proceedings.


* Drafts, reviews, and negotiates contracts, especially those related to litigation or potential disputes.


* Conducts internal investigations related to potential litigation matters.


* Develops specialization and provides services in one or more legal areas having primary or particular impact on the Company, specifically wildfire liability and risk mitigation.


* Assists management with the development of wildfire mitigation plans.


* Assists management or assumes responsibility for assuring compliance with rules, regulations and procedures affecting the Company as a regulated industry.


* Assists management in formulating policies and instituting programs conforming to specific legal or regulatory criteria.


* Represents Company in administrative agency proceedings consistent with a specific area of acquired specialization.


* Performs legal research to assist in formulating Company position with regard to legal matters or where a legal issue has significant impact on Company's position.


* Assists outside counsel in representing Company in complex administrative or legal proceedings.


* Provides basic quasi-legal training to other departments to facilitate an understanding of the total legal responsibilities impacting on that department in the context of Company operations.


* Completes the necessary continuing legal education requirements to maintain licensed legal status.


* Responsible for providing legal services and/or working in conjunction with outside counsel to provide the necessary legal services to all elements of the Company including the various operational departments and to upper/middle and top management.


* The legal services provided include a broad range of preventative, remedial and initiating actions in response to the needs of the Company requiring appli...