Senior Associate (General Counsel & Risk)

The role is to work as one of the In-House Counsel lawyers in the General Counsel & Risk team. The team is based in London and Australia and covers all of the HSF Kramer offices.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensuring compliance with the regulatory and practice compliance issues for the firm and advising in response to particular circumstances.
• Advising internally on compliance policies and procedures.
• Assisting lawyers and management to come to good risk based decisions on practice related points.
• Preparing and delivering compliance and risk training and awareness programmes and inductions.
• Regulatory advising on the regulatory requirements on the profession of lawyers in the jurisdictions in which we operate.
• Knowledge and learning management, preparation and delivery of risk and compliance training including e learning and information bulletins.
• General risk and compliance for the practice groups, advising lawyers on practice specific issues that arise as they advise clients, such as opinions, escrows, conduct, billing.
• Advising fee earners on the terms on which they may engage with specific clients and reviewing key client terms or requests for bespoke terms or drafting.
• Answering questions and enquiries from clients relating to our risk profile and regulatory position.
• Supporting the business services teams, working with business services teams to advise in relation to their support of legal practice.
• Advising our Business Services groups on legal issues relating to the entering into contracts with third parties.

Qualifications, skills and experience

• Qualified lawyer of at least 5 years PQE with City practice experience.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment on both legal and commercial issues.
• Strong problem solving skills.
• Ability to work well under pressure and to deadlines.
• Strong support and understanding of a law firm's commercial imperatives.
• Excellent interpersonal skills - the person will liaise with both lawyers and business services groups, in each case at all levels of seniority and from all offices.
• Good presentation skills - delivery of training at all levels.
• An innovative mindset, curious about AI and emerging technologies.

Working pattern, location and contract type

Full time - London - Permanent contract.

Diversity & Inclusion

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