Posting End Date: 08/23/2023

Work Place Flexibility: Hybrid

Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC

*** This position may be filled as a Counsel or Sr Counsel depending on the qualifications and experience of the candidate ***

*** This position will be filled in Jackson, MS ***

Job Summary/Purpose:

Responsible for providing high quality and professional legal advice and representation on retail regulatory matters. These responsibilities include performing legal functions and providing legal advice that will assist others in formulating key policies, deciding courses of action, and understanding applicable rules, systems, or processes in strategically important areas as well as preparing filings and handling matters through the regulatory approval processes, including administrative litigation if required.

Job Duties/Responsibilities:

• Possesses superior analytical and legal writing skills.
• Provides ethical and professional legal representation before regulatory agencies, including the Mississippi Public Service Commission, and courts of law.
• Must maintain a working knowledge of applicable regulatory and compliance regulations and utilize this knowledge to anticipate issues and advise company personnel on developing effective legal or other strategies to resolve them.
• Works effectively as part of a team and demonstrates adaptability and agility in working within a large organization.
• Possesses a strong understanding of roles and responsibilities within a matrixed organization and demonstrates skill in working together as part of a team to address legal and business issues and challenges.
• Possesses confidence and strong leadership skills, including the ability to lead legal projects and teams of individuals without necessarily having direct supervisory authority.
• Is self-motivated and capable of providing high quality work product with limited direct oversight and supervision.
• Demonstrates emotionally intelligent communication skills.
• Understands the business processes across and through the Company that are relevant to his or her practice area or specialty.
• Effectively drives multiple tasks, projects, and initiatives, both long and short term. Surpasses expectations by exceeding quality standards and/or deadlines.
• Effectively supervises the work of paraprofessionals and administrative staff.
• Responsible for leading discrete initiatives or projects to successful resolution.
• Able to perform high quality legal work without the involvement of outside counsel and, on occasions when outside counsel is engaged, manage the work of outside lawyers.
• Participate in trade association and bar association activities related to state public utility commission regulation.
• Due to its emphasis on high quality client service and legal representation, this position may at times require work to be performed in excess of a typical 40-hour work week and/or outside of regular business hours.

Minimum Requirements-Education:

A Juris Doctor degree is required. License or ability to obtain license to practice law in the state of Mississippi is required.

Minimum Requirements-Experience:

Counsel: 4+ years of experience in a law firm or in-house in one or more applicable areas of expertise, such as Regulatory (federal and/or state), Corporate/Commercial, Litigation, Nuclear, Environmental. Experience advising an electric utility is preferred. Civil litigation experience is strongly preferred, including managing and/or developing litigation strategy.

Sr Counsel: 6+ years of experience in a law firm or in-house in one or more applicable areas of expertise, such as Regulatory (federal and/or state), Commercial or General Litigation, Nuclear, or Environmental. Experience advising an electric utility is preferred. Civil litigation experience is strongly preferred. including managing and/or developing litigation strategy.

Minimum Requirements-Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

Proficient in a defined legal practice area or specialty. Basic industry knowledge, including awareness of the Company’s strategic business values and objectives, and working knowledge of applicable regulatory and compliance regulations. Demonstrated ability to provide strategic and regulatory (or commercial) legal advice and recommendations. Superior analytical and legal writing skills, ability to present clear and practical legal positions. Ability to work within a large matrixed organization and as part of a team to complete projects. Able to perform legal work ethically and with the utmost professionalism.

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Primary Location: Mississippi-Jackson Mississippi : Jackson
Job Function: Professional
FLSA Status: Professional
Relocation Option: No Relocation Offered
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT
Number of Openings: 1
Req ID: 112424
Travel Percentage:Up to 25%

An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets. Please click hereto view the EEO page, or see statements below.

EEO Statement: The Entergy System of Companies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. The Entergy System of Companies complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

The Entergy System of Companies expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of the Entergy System of Company employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.

Accessibility: Entergy provides reasonable accommodations for online applicants. Requests for a reasonable accommodation may be made orally or in writing by an applicant, employee, or third party on his or her behalf. If you are an individual with a disability and you are in need of an accommodation for the recruiting process please click and provide your name, contact number, the accommodation requested and the requisition number that you are requesting the accommodation for. Employee Services will contact you regarding your request.

Additional Responsibilities: As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

Entergy Pay Transparency Policy Statement: The Entergy System of Companies (the Company) will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the Company’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c). Equal Opportunity and Pay Transparency.

Pay Transparency Notice:

Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision (dol.gov)

The non-confidential portions of the affirmative action program for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans shall be available for inspection upon request by any employee or applicant for employment. Please contact HRCompliance@entergy.com to schedule a time to review the affirmative action plan during regular office hours.

WORKING CONDITIONS:
As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.