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About the Role
As Corporate Counsel, you will provide legal advice and direction across multiple legal disciplines, applying your expertise to solve complex issues with minimal guidance. We are seeking someone with demonstrated success in a law firm environment who can serve as a trusted advisor, strategic business partner, and practical problem-solver for the business. The successful candidate will be looked to by the organization for mentoring, leadership, and sound judgment. The role requires comfort explaining legal and business concepts clearly to internal and external stakeholders, as well as developing templates, playbooks, and best practices that help the business operate efficiently and consistently.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deliver the organization's legal service with guidance from senior colleagues.
- Provide specialist advice on the interpretation and application of policies and procedures, resolving complex or contentious queries and issues and enabling others to take appropriate actions.
- Contribute to the formation of a key element of functional strategy through specialist expertise and insights, to ensure that the strategy meets business needs.
- Draft policies, procedures, and related guidelines within an area of expertise to meet defined key principles and ensure compliance with external requirements.
- Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team.
- Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging external regulation and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
- Develop stakeholder engagement by identifying stakeholders; by finding out their needs, issues, and concerns; and by reacting to these needs, issues, and concerns to support the communication of business information and decisions.
- Develop and maintain practical templates, playbooks, and best practices to support consistent legal review, improve stakeholder understanding, and help the business move matters forward efficiently.
Requirements
- JD from an accredited law school and admission to the bar of a state in good standing
- 3+ years of law firm experience, with a demonstrated record of success handling complex legal and business issues independently.
- Ability to explain legal concepts, risks, and recommendations clearly and practically to internal business partners, senior stakeholders, customers, and other external audiences.
Skills
- Specialist insight to strategy, policy, and decision-making
- Legal advice and direction across multiple legal disciplines
- Solving complex issues with minimal guidance
- Serve as a trusted advisor, strategic business partner, and practical problem-solver
- Mentoring, leadership, and sound judgment
- Explaining legal and business concepts clearly
- Developing templates, playbooks, and best practices
- Interpretation and application of policies and procedures
- Subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management
- Maintaining external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging external regulation and industry best practices
- Developing stakeholder engagement
- Consistent legal review
- Improving stakeholder understanding
- Moving matters forward efficiently
- Advanced interpretation and application of knowledge of laws, regulations and policies in area of expertise
- Advanced adherence to relevant laws, regulations, and internal policies within legal proceedings and documentation
- Advanced communication on legal matters
- Advanced research and application of legal concepts and information
- Advanced collaboration with clients to prioritize business objectives and challenges through thoughtful analysis of their business context
Location
- Illinois
- Chicago, IL
- Maryland
- New York
- New York City
- Rochester, NY
- New Jersey
- Ohio
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years of law firm experience
Education Level
- JD from an accredited law school
Salary/Compensations
- U.S. National Base Pay Range: $104,900 - $174,700
- Illinois: $110,100 - $183,500
- Chicago, IL: $115,400 - $192,200
- Maryland: $110,100 - $183,500
- New York: $115,400 - $192,200
- New York City: $125,900 - $209,700
- Rochester, NY: $104,900 - $174,700
- New Jersey: $123,816 - $197,784
- Ohio: $99,700 - $166,000
Benefits
- Appealing working prospect
- Numerous wellbeing initiatives
- Shared parental leave
- Study assistance
- Sabbaticals
- Country specific benefits
- Annual incentive bonus
About the Company
- LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX (http://www.relx.com), a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.
- The company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case.
- The company employs over 2,000 technologists, data scientists, and experts to develop, test, and validate solutions in line with RELX Responsible AI Principles (https://stories.relx.com/responsible-ai-principles/index.html).
- LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world.
- As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.
Equal Opportunity
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- We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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