Joining the Regulatory Compliance team, this role involves working as part of the wider Legal & Risk team managing risk within the firm globally with a focus on legal risk management and internal compliance with applicable laws, professional rules, and regulations on compliance, regulatory and partnership matters. The candidate is expected to contribute actively to the promotion of a risk management culture at the firm.
Key Responsibilities
What we are looking for
- Strong commercial judgment and the ability to analyse complex legal issues and provide advice that balances the firm’s legal obligations with its business needs
- Excellent problem solver, with the ability to offer knowledgeable, practical, and creative solutions with strong written and oral communication skills
- A team player with a willingness to learn who is confident interacting with colleagues at all levels of the firm, and has a ‘can do’ attitude
- A qualified lawyer ideally with Regulatory, Dispute Resolution, Corporate, or Compliance background
Expectations of the role
- Providing general advice to the firm on a range of queries about internal policies and procedures, regulations, laws, and rules of professional conduct, including outside interests, use of the client account and escrows, reliance/non-reliance issues, limitations of liability, NDAs, engagement terms, dealing in securities and insider lists, audit letters, and anti-bribery and corruption, as well as managing internal incidents and compliance breaches and regulatory reporting.
- Investigating, reviewing and managing all professional negligence claims, potential issues or other litigation brought against the firm internationally. This requires the role holder to be (or become) familiar with litigation practice and procedure in England as well as other jurisdictions, and to work closely with the firm’s insurers (under the global and any local programmes) and external legal advisers.
- Assisting in the continued development of the firm’s policies and procedures to help ensure its ongoing compliance with applicable laws and regulations as well as raising awareness about key risk topics through regular training and other initiatives. Keeping appraised of regulatory developments and liaising with the SRA as appropriate.
- Handling whistleblowing reports and managing internal investigations into alleged misconduct by our people (coordinated with the Contentious Risk and HR teams) and regulatory reporting where required.
- Developing and delivering induction and refresher training on a wide variety of compliance and risk management issues (e.g. developing an Anti-Bribery & Corruption eLearning) for Legal & Risk and more broadly for the Practice and Business Teams, across our offices globally. This aspect of the role includes working as part of the Legal & Risk Training Team to develop a global risk learning strategy
Key Responsibilities
- Magic circle or silver circle law firm experience
- Experience drafting, negotiating and advising on legal documents for clients
- Familiarity with deal structures and terminology
- Graduate – minimum 2:1 degree (or equivalent)
- Qualified lawyer ideally with Regulatory, Dispute Resolution, Corporate, or Compliance background
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