Legal Director
Overview
At Corporate Tools, we believe legal strategy shouldn’t feel like a speed bump—it should drive the vehicle. We’re looking for a Legal Director who sees law not as paperwork, but as gameplay. Someone who knows how to navigate regulations with a machete in one hand and a whiteboard marker in the other. If you’re tired of the suits, the jargon, and the snail-paced “let’s circle back” culture, we built this job for you.
You’ll lead a growing team of talented attorneys in a company that moves fast, breaks boring rules, and builds actual things (yes, including software, services, and a lot of companies). You’ll own legal strategy across M&A, global expansion, government contracts, IP, real estate, and the occasional delightful legal oddity. You’ll report directly to the COO and work closely with execs across every department.
We need someone sharp, experienced, and deeply competent—but also weird enough to hang. This isn’t a corporate gig pretending to be cool. It’s a genuinely fun, radically human workplace doing big, ambitious things, and we want a legal leader who gets that.
This position is coded as ‘Hybrid,’ meaning occasional remote work is available. Ideally, the candidate will be located in the Spokane–Coeur d’Alene metro area, but we’re open to candidates in surrounding communities within reasonable commuting distance. The expectation is that the person in this role will work consistently from our Post Falls, ID or Spokane, WA office to stay closely connected with local executive teams and actively participate in in-person meetings.
Wage
Benefits
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100% employer-paid medical, dental & visionFull coverage for employees — nothing comes out of your paycheck. Plus an annual review with a raise option.
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Time off that grows with you22 days PTO + 4 holidays to start. After 3 years it bumps to 29 days, and after 5 years you move to flexible time off — not accrued, not capped. Take time off when you want.
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Parental leave & 401(k) matchPaid parental leave, plus up to 6% company 401(k) matching with no vesting period — it’s yours from day one.
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Quarterly allowanceSpend it on whatever makes work better: a comfier remote setup, continuing-education classes, a plant for your desk, coffee for a coworker, a massage for yourself… really, whatever.
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No dumb perks (and a trail mix bar)No weekend dog-walking gimmicks that look cool but cost nothing because nobody uses them. We spend on benefits you’ll actually use — an open-concept office, friendly coworkers, a creative environment, and yeah… a trail mix bar.
Responsibilities
Drive the legal where you want it to go
Enhance our SaaS model, drive multiple acquisitions a year, help create the business strategy that is going to squash the competition
Expand, grow, let's take this thing internationally eventually
Level up! The team, yourself, the company. You'll be helping driving the ship to make us the legal team people never knew existed
Be nimble and quick on your feet when legal changes that will impact our business are coming. Plan for this
Liaise, integrate, relate, or however it works with the Government, let's get this going here
Real Estate? Yes! Negotiate, contract, all that legal jazz
Think past compliance to be more business minded and street smart when it comes to our legal
Think through IP Portfolio management, put a plan in place, execute!
Manage direct and indirect legal processes and communications as they arise
Be able to communicate effectively your plans easily to team members outside of the legal space
Avoid analysis paralysis
Requirements
Previous litigation experience
Law degree with 10+ years of progressive legal experience
Experience being the legal decision maker in regards to business decisions
Be a good human
Why Work Here
You are tired of feeling like you are a cog in the a machine that just keeps turning for the sake of turning, and you want to be in a position that drives positive impact. We aren’t a company of cogs, we are company of dynamic ideation and being able to drive it to fruition. If you’re looking for that type of environment you might have just found the right place. Are we perfect? No. However, we are a culture of always finding ways of making things better, so where there is improvement to be made, we want to make it. It’s called having a product mindset, and it’s what we do.You also like an interesting challenge and can find the natural way forward through your street smarts. You hear it a lot here, but we want you to use your street smarts and outwit those who rely too heavily on theory without actual practice. Those people tend to find themselves in constant states of analysis paralysis, and it’s why you probably left a typical law firm in the past. You were tired of trying to convince people people of the right way forward and running into walls and red tape, so you ventured out to find something different, and honestly it’s probably why you are reading this… and we hope we are what you are looking for.
At the end of the day. Business is war. Business is a sport. Business is our sport. Legal should be your sport. We compete with public company giants, but we outmaneuver and outsmart them every day. Does Von Clause mean anything to you? We primarily specialize in the flank. If that means something more than a steak to you….. lets go!