Senior Counsel, Legal Operations & Compliance

Job Description

The Opportunity \n

We're hiring a Minnesota-barred attorney to be the senior hands-on lawyer inside our legal operations and compliance function. If you love the craft of legal work — getting it exactly right, at volume, on time — this seat delivers more real ownership and more interesting variety than most attorneys see in a decade: cannabis regulatory work, commercial leases, entity and license management, compliance infrastructure, and daily collaboration with an executive team that moves fast.

You'll join a small, established legal team, working alongside two paralegals whose work you'll help mentor and elevate, with meaningful room to grow as the function scales.

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• Own the master renewal calendar: entity renewals, state and local license renewals, and applications — inventoried, deadlined, executed, never late.
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• Review and abstract commercial leases, maintain the lease database, and support subleasing and landlord communications.
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• Build and maintain audit-ready compliance records; support regulatory filings, disclosures, and exam response.
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• Draft, review, and manage contracts, corporate documents, and entity records; help elevate paralegal work with a mentoring mindset.
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• Support the insurance program: certificate tracking, renewals, COI requirements.
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• Practice at the frontier: we use AI legal tools daily for drafting, review, and research — with privilege rigorously protected — and we'll invest in keeping you at the cutting edge.
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Detail-obsessed attorneys who take real pride in execution and want their work to matter visibly. We're an in-person team by design — on-site in Edina, five days a week — because that's how mentorship and momentum actually happen. Comfort working in a bipartisan, politically diverse environment is part of the culture: we speak purple and work both sides of the aisle in this industry on purpose.

$175,000–$200,000 plus benefits. Modern tools, direct executive access, no bureaucracy, and a growth path as the legal function scales with the company.

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• JD and active Minnesota bar membership (or imminent admission).
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• 5+ years of legal experience; regulated-industry exposure (cannabis, alcohol, or tobacco) strongly preferred.
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• Commercial contracts and/or real estate experience preferred; multi unit retail or franchise agreements experience a plus.
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• Meticulous, organized, autonomous, and genuinely enthusiastic about AI in legal practice.
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