Senior Director - Real Estate Attorney

Posting Duration: This posting will close June 30, 2026, and will only be extended if we need to see more candidates to fill the position.

Position Summary

Forum is seeking a Senior Real Estate Attorney to join our in-house legal team in Denver, Colorado. The ideal candidate will have experience in law firm or in-house roles with respect to transactional real estate and finance work and be well-versed in all aspects of commercial acquisitions, developments, borrower-side financing, mezzanine loans and preferred equity transactions. The position proactively manages legal risks, supports business operations, and contributes to the company’s long-term goals.

The successful candidate has excellent communication skills and attention to detail, is a problem solver, and has the ability to take on significant project responsibility and manage a challenging workload within a collaborative and fast-paced environment.

Essential Functions:

• Support internal departments in various real estate transactions including strategy, structure, and transaction documents
• Review and negotiate service provider contracts for legal compliance and identifying risk factors
• Assist legal team to maintain contract and legal databases for parent entity, subsidiaries, funds, and business units
• Oversee, manage and direct external attorneys

Skills, Qualifications, Additional Responsibilities:

• Minimum five years of combined in law firm or in-house roles with respect to transactional real estate work
• Experience with private funds, REITs and 1031 transactions a plus
• Demonstrate an ability to work independently and productively
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills
• Strong decision-making, problem-solving and organization skills
• Strong business acumen
• Outstanding judgement

Education & Technical Skills:

• Juris Doctorate degree from an accredited law school with an excellent academic record
• Admission to the Colorado bar

In addition to the above, Forum employees are expected to demonstrate these Forum Core Values:

1. DRIVEN
2. COLLABORATIVE
3. CONVICTION
4. HUMBLE

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. Travel is required.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Compensation Information:  Base salary range is $150,000 to $200,000. This range is estimated for this role; actual pay may be different.

Benefits for full-time employees include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, long-term and short-term disability insurance, employee assistance program, Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts, 401(k) with company match program, 12 paid company holidays, self-managed PTO, anniversary milestone program/awards, gift matching program.