Legal Jobs in Elkton Maryland

Placers is partnering with a highly respected, innovation-driven global manufacturer to identify an experienced Lead Counsel for a temporary engagement supporting a diverse portfolio of specialty businesses. This is a unique opportunity to operate as a strategic legal advisor across multiple technical and regulated markets, including energy, life sciences, advanced materials, and branded products.

In this role, you will work directly with senior leadership to translate business strategy into practical legal guidance, helping teams navigate complex commercial, intellectual property, and regulatory landscapes while enabling growth and innovation.

What You'll Do

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders across multiple global business units
• Shape growth and market-expansion strategies through integrated legal guidance
• Lead complex commercial contracting strategy, deal structures, and negotiations
• Align intellectual property strategy with innovation and competitive positioning
• Provide counsel across regulatory, trade, sustainability, and data privacy considerations
• Balance risk with business opportunity in highly technical, regulated environments
• Partner cross-functionally with commercial, R&D, and operations leaders
• Coordinate with internal legal colleagues and external counsel to deliver consistent, business-focused solutions
• Improve legal processes using continuous-improvement and scalable frameworks

Required Background

• J.D. with active U.S. bar membership and ability to operate as in-house counsel
• 10+ years of progressive legal experience in commercial, IP, regulatory, or related matters
• Experience supporting global, multi-business organizations
• Strong business acumen and ability to enable growth through practical legal judgment
• Demonstrated credibility advising senior leadership
• Ability to prioritize high-impact work in fast-moving environments
• Excellent communication skills — able to translate complex legal concepts into clear business guidance
• Comfort working in ambiguity and navigating novel legal challenges
• Ability to travel ~10% (including international)

Preferred Experience

• Exposure to technical or regulated industries (e.g., energy, life sciences, medical devices, advanced manufacturing, or consumer products)
• Strength in commercial contracting with complementary IP and/or regulatory experience
• Continuous-improvement mindset and experience simplifying processes

Work Arrangement

Hybrid schedule based near Elkton, Maryland (approximately four days onsite per week).

COGENCY GLOBAL, INC.

THE RIGHT RESPONSE

AT THE RIGHT TIME,

EVERY TIME

Position Title: Entity Account Executive

Location: East Region (Charlotte, NC or Newark, DE)

Employment Type: Fulltime

Hours: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Overview

This is an exciting time to join Cogency Global. Come be a part of a highly established, revered, and profitable international service company.

As one of 16 Entity Account Executives in North America, you will join the East team and will report directly to our East Entity Regional Sales Director in Newark, DE. The Entity AE will initiate new client relationships, as well as maintain and expand existing client accounts in our East Region. To be successful, the Entity AE will develop a deep knowledge of our agency and compliance product lines, along with a general knowledge of our transactional product lines.

The Ideal Candidate Is...

Grateful & humble. You’re someone who practices gratitude and appreciates the opportunities you’ve been afforded while also instilling gratitude in others. You’re confident, but mindful of how to balance your confidence with humility.

Results-driven. You’re a self-motivated contributor who first and foremost is passionate about sales and achieving results. You expect yourself to hit – if not exceed – your goals and know how to make it happen in a team environment.

An industry insider. You have Corporate Services industry experience, and insight into the markets Cogency Global operates in including Legal, Entity, other professional

services, and nonprofits.

A charismatic communicator. You have superior written and verbal skills and enjoy communicating with both internal and external stakeholders. A significant part of this job includes interacting with customers, closing deals, and working with other leaders across the organization. Being friendly, likable, even keeled and outgoing is a critical component of success at Cogency Global.

Franchise minded. You always strive to improve, you energize those you surround, and draw people towards your path. You build bridges, take ownership of your business and WOW your customers every day.

What You’ll Do

• Establish, maintain, and expand new and existing entity clients within your assigned territory/sector
• Maximize revenue growth by achieving & exceeding sales quotas
• Generate and follow up on leads while continually researching and qualifying prospective customers and buyers (a true hunter mentality)
• Strategically schedule and execute meetings within your territory/sector
• Provide online and in-person product demonstrations
• Keep Salesforce up to date on a weekly basis with pipeline and activity data, and supply management with oral and written reports on activities and customers when requested
• Participate in trade shows, seminars and other sales and marketing led events
• Provide clear and effective written proposals for current and prospective customers
• Develop and coordinate budgetary needs with your Regional Sales Director as needed

What You’ll Need

• A Curious, Courageous and Coachable mindset.
• A proven track record of successfully meeting and exceeding sales objectives
• Ability to effectively prospect and qualify leads while performing needed assessments, engaging technical resources as required
• Utilize solution-selling and value-selling techniques to effectively guide the sales process to close
• Upsell and leverage business from new and established customer relationships
• Resolve client issues in a timely and thorough manner; escalates issues to manager as appropriate
• Remain informed of service line, competition and industry trends that may impact client business activities
• A demonstrated ability to balance the identification and development of new client relationships with the nurturing and expansion of existing client relationships.
• Minimum 3 years of sales experience to Entities (SMB, Mid-Market and/or Enterprise)
• Prefer experience within the Legal Services industry (not required)
• Strong written, verbal and presentation skills with a consultative professional business acumen
• Must be detail oriented, organized, ethical, responsible, and self-motivated
• Strong computer skills, including proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as Salesforce or a similar CRM

· Strong interpersonal skills: ability to rapidly develop and cultivate relationships with peers, partners, and key influencers. Be confident and assertive, but with a fun, friendly and collaborative approach.

Together, we live our Core Values

Integrity: Doing the Right thing even when no one will know and walking the talk

Fairness: We have an open-door policy with access to all including the CEO at any time in a friendly & collaborative environment.

Fun: We believe in a fun work environment & have many team events that support the ‘fun’ culture

What We Offer

· Educational assistance program for all of our eligible staff members

· An Organization that gives back to Society – We offer Paid community service days to all our eligible staff members and NYC Headquarters participates in number of charity drives throughout the year

· A commitment to diversity & inclusion

· 401k up to 5% price match, Access to FSA,

· 80% covered Medical Insurance & 80% covered Dental & Vision Insurance

Job Type: Full-time

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday