Staff Attorney - Litigation at Lowe's

Do your Best Work in Mooresville

This position is based at our headquarters in Mooresville, North Carolina. Our corporate office is a space where you can collaborate and do your best work. Take a walk, grab a bite (or a cup of coffee), work out or get a check-up – we invest in you so you can find your inspiration.

Your Impact

The Lowe's Legal Department serves as an innovative, proactive and strategic business partner focused on accelerating profitable growth while protecting the Lowe's brand. The Staff Attorney is an intellectually curious problem solver who serves as a trusted business partner to provide legal consultation, advice, and practical solutions on day-to-day business activities, including routine policy and procedural improvements across several business units. This role handles some matters independently and may provide input to support complex work. The Staff Attorney should have a working understanding of litigation and experience supporting discovery obligations, including e-discovery strategy and execution.

What you will do

• Serves as a trusted business partner by stakeholders

• Applies legal and business knowledge to align stakeholders on mitigation strategies on day to day business activities

• Provides broad-based, day to day legal support on common matters within litigation and risk management areas, in some instances using existing templates or processes with some of customization required

• Performs day to day core tasks on a highly independent basis, with minimal to some direction from supervising Senior Counsel or Assistant General Counsel

• Performs stretch assignments on an occasional basis, such as those that expand into new areas of the law, new clients, or projects

• Supports discovery efforts, including e-discovery, by coordinating with internal stakeholders and outside counsel to ensure, efficient, defensible, and cost-effective processes for preservation, collection, review, and production of electronically stored information (ESI).

• May support more senior lawyers on various matters, by conducting legal research and proposing solutions on more complex matters

• Prepares and delivers trainings, memorandums for colleagues to present to business partners on routine legal matters. May co-present on complex legal matters with senior level attorneys

• Proactively identifies legal risks by assessing internal and external trends, including the regulatory environment and supports plans to mitigate and prevent future exposure

• May interact with outside counsel to get additional expertise on particular topic, while some may have day-today interaction and management of outside counsel on individual legal matters

• Collaborates and provides input on projects and supports colleagues across the department

• Serves as key point of contact for Director level stakeholders.

• May take leadership roles on project and committees.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

• Juris Doctorate Degree from an ABA accredited school

• 3-5 Years Practicing law in a firm or in-house legal department

• Litigation experience, with preference for insurance defense, commercial/business litigation, product liability, or regulatory/compliance.

• Demonstrated ability to analyze and manage complex litigation matters, including evaluating claims exposure, setting reserves, assessing risk, and developing resolution strategies.

• Experience supporting e-discovery efforts including document preservation, collection, review workflows, and production of ESI.

• Proven ability to manage a high-volume docket of litigated matters, through all phases, including demand letters, pleadings, discovery, motion practice, settlement, and trial preparation.

• Ability to influence by translating legal risk to operational risk and practical solutions.

• Demonstrated legal writing skills

• Able to translate legal speak into plain language.

• Experience supporting e-discovery efforts including document preservation, collection, review, workflows, and production of ESI

• License to practice law in at least one state (or foreign jurisdiction, if lawyer is providing services to Company affiliates in that jurisdiction).

About Lowe’s

Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 100 home improvement company with total fiscal 2025 sales of more than $86 billion. Lowe’s employs approximately 300,000 associates and operates over 1,750 home improvement stores, 540 branches and 120 distribution centers. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information, visit Lowes.com.

Lowe’s is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.