Description:
Job Summary: This role provides legal assistance to various assigned businesses, departments and personnel within the company and independently advises business units on matters requiring developed legal and counseling skills in one or more specified areas of expertise including applicable consumer protection laws such as the Fair Credit Reporting Act, The Gramm-Leach Bliley Act and the Dodd Frank Act.Job Responsibilities: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily, with or without reasonable accommodation:
- Prepare drafts and final copies of legal documents and correspondence within an assigned area and within the scope of developed legal expertise.
- Prepare drafts of complex legal documents and correspondence and modifies documents, as required.
- Identify issues, conduct legal research, prepare memoranda, and advise internal clients regarding multiple issues requiring developed skills in specified areas of expertise.
- Negotiate and/or approve changes to legal documents requiring an intermediate level of expertise.
- Manage assigned projects to completion.
- Manage external counsel and general litigation.
- Assist management with employment law concerns, contracts, claims and creating company policies and risk assessments.
- Respond to inquiries from regulatory agencies, customers and the business community.
- Assist senior attorneys and management in higher level matters, as needed.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements:
- J.D. degree from an accredited law school required
- Licensed to practice law by a state in the United States required
- 5-7 years of relevant experience in a law firm or corporate legal department
- Strong transactional experience involving customer and vendor contracts, software and content licensing, intellectual property rights and other technology matters. Experience with large financial institution master services agreement will be considered a differentiator.
- Compliance experience with consumer protection laws and compliance management systems will be considered as a differentiator
- Excellent communications (oral and written) and negotiation skills
- Must be a self-starter able to work independently or in a team environment
- Outstanding computer skills to include online legal research systems, Microsoft Word, Excel, and other document or practice management systems
- IAPP CIPP Privacy Certification is a plus
- Must demonstrate the following competencies: personal effectiveness, decision-making, ethical conduct, strategic thinking, thoroughness, business acumen, and time management
