Senior Business Advisory and Transactions Attorney- Regulatory Compliance and Licensing

At Jimerson Birr, our team has accepted the lasting responsibility of protecting our clients’ rights, businesses, properties, investments, and finances.

Our professionals are integral, trusted advisers and advocates in both established and emerging businesses, giving our clients insights into legal and business considerations that guide prudent decision-making. We work with some of the world’s most respected and well-established businesses, as well as start-up visionaries, and individuals looking to overcome challenges.

About the Role

Jimerson Birr is seeking a Senior Business Advisory & Transactions Attorney for our Regulatory Compliance and Licensing team. The Senior Attorney serves as day-to-day counsel to business clients on the licensing, compliance, and government-facing questions that determine whether they can keep operating and keep operating cleanly.

This is regulatory work with real breadth, and it moves at the agency’s clock, not a court’s. In a given week you might file a licensing application, defend a client against a disciplinary complaint, respond to an audit, review an ad campaign for compliance, and weigh in on a bid protest. You set your own priorities across all of it, troubleshoot the thing in front of you, and move to the next one, you don’t need someone handing you a queue.

The part that distinguishes this seat: you build things that keep working long after the filing is done: a compliance program with real policies, training, and an audit cadence; a licensing renewal calendar that never lapses; a government-affairs strategy a client can run on their own. You’re a generalist across regulated industries, but when a regulatory scheme is genuinely interesting, you’re the one willing to go deep on it. And once you’ve built something, you rarely leave it alone. You keep circling back to make it tighter, because "good enough" rarely stays that way in your head.

At JB, "great lawyering" isn’t defined by hours worked. It is measured by execution against the plan, disciplined delivery, and visible progress, backed by systems that create clarity, consistency, and client trust. That structure exists to remove friction. The attorneys who thrive here treat it as leverage and then make it better.

T his is your seat if:

• You’d rather build the compliance program that prevents the violation than defend the client after the fact.
• You are precise by instinct: you catch the filing deadline nobody calendared and the regulation that changed since last quarter.
• You want variety without chaos: many agencies and matters, clear plans, and defensible priorities you set yourself.
• You solve the problem in front of you, move on, and don’t need someone else’s process to tell you what’s next.
• You want to own the client relationship, not hand it up the chain.