POSITION SUMMARY

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own strategy, forum, counsel selection, scope, budget, and settlement posture for all litigation, arbitration, and disputes, with outside counsel executing.
• Assess liability on every demand, claim, notice, and threatened action, and assign each open matter a named internal owner and, where required, a named firm.
• Maintain a standing legal exposure schedule with financial ranges, reviewed monthly with the Chief Financial Officer.
• Report settlement exposure to the Executive Chairman and the Board proactively.
• Deliver a monthly litigation status report by the twelfth of each month covering forum, counsel, status, next steps, and outside counsel invoices for each matter.

• Own the approved commercial template set, negotiation playbook, fallback positions, signature matrix, and escalation triggers that route work between Legal Operations and the General Counsel.
• Negotiate directly on agreements carrying insurance minimums, indemnity, data protection, or exclusivity terms.
• Own vendor breach, cure, non-renewal, and termination mechanics, including handover, knowledge transfer, and payment-withholding provisions.
• Own the franchise and alliance agreement template, agreement integrity, and any partner dispute or termination that becomes a legal matter.

• Provide legal oversight of operating authority across state public utilities commission, federal motor carrier, municipal for-hire, and airport authority regimes, serving as the escalation path for filings managed by field operations.
• Own legal judgment, disputes, and enforcement matters under those regimes, including exemption filings and enforcement exposure tied to large-event operations.
• Plan and manage the recurring large-event regulatory workstream ahead of each event cycle.
• Document and maintain the company's written positions on commercial motor vehicle classification and the chauffeur engagement model, with the exposure attached to each.

• Own the company's insurance program end to end in partnership with the Chief Financial Officer, including structure and adequacy across primary and excess auto liability and the annual renewal analysis.
• Manage broker and carrier relationships, including renewal negotiation, carrier viability assessment, and collateral posting and release across current and prior carriers.
• Own contractual insurance obligations and resolve gaps between client master-agreement insurance minimums and the company's coverage.
• Oversee certificate issuance on exception, loss runs, reserve tracking, and the interface between claims experience and program design.
• Evaluate alternative risk structures, including captive arrangements.
• Own the tender and notice path and coverage disputes for auto and workers' compensation claims administered by Legal Operations and panel counsel.

• Review and negotiate credit and security documents, covenant language, waivers, amendments, consents, and subordination arrangements.
• Support the Chief Financial Officer on reporting obligations under the company's lending arrangements.

• Serve as Corporate Secretary to the company and its subsidiaries, preparing Board and committee consents and resolutions, including financing authorizations.
• Maintain the company's legal entities, including corporate records, annual reports, registered-agent renewals, qualifications, formations, and dissolutions.
• Maintain the corporate record set, including facilities and franchise-partner schedules requested by counterparties and lenders.

• Provide legal support to the transformation program and corporate transactions, including entity work, commercial structure, and partner and vendor arrangements.
• Lead counterparty due diligence and vetting, buy-side and sell-side diligence, disclosure posture, and definitive documents on time-sensitive, executive-facing timelines.

• Serve as legal backstop to the Chief People Officer on employment matters, covering privilege, litigation posture, settlement structure, exposure quantification, and reduction-in-force and notification analysis.

• Own the outside counsel panel, rate cards, engagement letters, and matter budgets, and decide on firm consolidation or replacement.
• Approve all outside counsel invoices as a named financial control under the legal expense management policy.
• Forecast outside legal spend monthly, report variance, and prepare the annual legal and risk budget by workstream.
• Document legal processes, routing rules, and escalation frameworks so the function operates without interruption in the General Counsel's absence.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in regulated transportation, logistics, mobility, hospitality, or multi-site services; regulated ground transportation preferred.
• Experience supporting a company through a lender workout, forbearance, covenant default, or restructuring.
• Franchise or licensed-partner network experience.
• California employment and wage and hour experience, and state public utilities commission practice.
• Corporate transaction experience, including diligence, disclosure, and integration.
• Corporate Secretary experience across a multi-entity structure.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND COMPETENCIES

• Commercial judgment: identifies and quantifies legal risk and recommends a clear course of action.
• Financial ownership of legal and insurance spend, including budgeting and variance reporting.
• Independent analysis of technical and data disputes, working with internal technical experts.
• Knowledge of ground transportation regulatory regimes, commercial insurance programs, and credit and security documentation.
• Fluent use of modern legal research and drafting tools, including AI-assisted research and drafting.
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication with executives, the Board, and counterparties.

ATTRIBUTES AND CHARACTERISTICS

• Disciplined: issues no terms, contracts, or positions to a counterparty before the business owner has approved them.
• Forthright: raises adverse developments early and unprompted, with the exposure quantified.
• Process-minded: documents process so that work continues in the General Counsel's absence.
• Composed: responsive, plain-spoken, and civil under pressure with colleagues and counterparties.
• Confident: offers a view on risk and exposure in the boardroom without being asked.

PRIMARY CONTACTS

WORK ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY