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Associate Attorney – Corporate – Wooster

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Our Wooster office seeks a full-time corporate attorney to handle negotiating and drafting of all types of agreements and advising clients on basic business matters. Well-qualified candidates will have experience as first or second chair on mergers and acquisitions transactions, real estate purchase transactions, and/or commercial leases, and compliance. Experience with ERISA, employee benefits, or tax planning matters is a plus.

About Critchfield

Critchfield, Critchfield & Johnston, Ltd. (“Critchfield”) is the counsel of choice for complex business, real estate, and commercial transactions across a broad swath of Northeast and Central Ohio. Our clients range from individuals and small, family-owned businesses to major international corporations. The firm employs 40 attorneys in 5 offices located in Medina, Wayne, Holmes, Ashland, and Knox Counties.

Wooster is the county seat of Wayne County, Ohio, and is recognized as one of the nation’s top “micropolitan” counties for new business growth by the United States Office of Management and Budget. The city is the headquarters of a number of major companies, including Buehler Food Markets Inc., Wooster Brush, Seaman Corp., Wooster Community Hospital, Wooster Motor Ways, and Certified Angus Beef. Other major companies with operations in Wooster include Frito-Lay, Schaeffler Group, Akron Brass, United Titanium, Western Reserve Group Insurance Company, and Daisy Brands.  The College of Wooster is a highly rated liberal arts college with nationally recognized faculty.

Our attorneys are intellectually curious with highly developed organizational, communication, and time-management skills, as well as the ability to react quickly to changes as priorities are revised or reshaped in a fast-moving environment.

Perks and Benefits

Critchfield offers a robust suite of benefits for our attorneys including: training and development opportunities including an annual firm-wide Attorney Retreat, CLE and bar admission expense reimbursement, annual bonus program, 401 (k) plan, health insurance, firm paid life insurance and long-term disability, dental, vision, and short-term disability coverage, flexible spending account, employee assistance program and paid vacation.

Critchfield is an equal-opportunity employer.

Requirements

  • J.D. degree
  • Licensed to practice law in the State of Ohio

How to Apply

Please send a cover letter and resume to hr@ccj.com.

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is Critchfield’s policy that all employees and potential employees will be evaluated on the basis of qualifications and ability without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic, in all personnel actions, including recruitment, hiring, promotions, training, transfers, demotions or layoffs and in all matters involving compensation and benefits.

The firm will, upon request, in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, provide reasonable accommodations to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions of their jobs. Employees wishing to request such accommodations should contact the Human Resource Manager. Questions or complaints of discrimination should be directed to the Human Resource Manager or to the Managing Member.

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