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About the Role
The Counsel provides legal advice and support to management and employees in Corporate Group functions and Business units, acting as a legal resource for specific subject matters or businesses. This role involves managing litigation, negotiating contracts, assisting with product roll-outs, and advising on regulatory developments, while anticipating and addressing potential legal risks.
Responsibilities
- Provides consistent and sound legal advice in a clear, concise and responsive manner.
- Develops legal knowledge and skill, understanding relevant substantive law and identifying legal issues.
- Understands the business, its products, operations, strategy, risk appetite, and regulatory environment.
- Interprets legal requirements with a balanced understanding of law and business context to formulate relevant legal theories.
- Identifies business issues and policies related to legal requirements.
- Describes legal issues and options to the client.
- Identifies conflict situations and involves senior lawyers in decision-making.
- Discusses with clients how particular actions might be inconsistent with TD's risk appetite.
- Effectively contributes to and/or leads negotiations and conflict resolutions.
- Gathers supportive information in preparation for negotiation.
- Understands the dynamics of the negotiation process.
- Displays firmness, tact, patience, and respect in dealing with all parties involved.
- May supervise administrative and paralegal staff and junior attorneys.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree required
- JD from accredited law school required
- 5+ Years of related experience
- Admission to appropriate State Bar in good standing and licensed to practice law in the State
- Basic understanding of banking/financial services operations and issues
- Ability to simplify, problem solve, multitask and work effectively against deadlines
- Integrity and high moral standards
- Strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills
- Strong legal research and analysis skills
- Detail oriented
- Must be able to apply legal knowledge to the business
- Ability to exercise sound judgment
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Strong teamwork and client skills
- Highly motivated
- Commercial banking experience in a law firm or in-house environment (Preferred)
- Deep experience negotiating commercial financing contracts (Preferred)
- Experience managing or assisting with commercial loan workouts (Preferred)
- Experience with subsidiary and/or entity-level corporate governance (Preferred)
- Working knowledge of laws, rules, and regulations applicable to commercial and small business lending (Preferred)
- Experience working in a regulatory environment (Preferred)
Skills
- Legal advice and support
- Litigation management
- Contract negotiation
- Product roll-out assistance
- Regulatory development advising
- Legal risk anticipation and mitigation
- Legal research and analysis
- Negotiation
- Conflict resolution
- Problem-solving
- Multitasking
- Client skills
- Teamwork
- Oral and written communication
Location
- Mount Laurel, New Jersey, United States of America
Work Type
- Onsite (4 days per week)
Experience Level
- 5+ Years of related experience
Education Level
- Bachelors degree
- JD from accredited law school
Salary/Compensations
- $140,000 - $231,000 USD
Benefits
- Health and well-being benefits
- Savings and retirement programs
- Paid time off (Vacation PTO, Flex PTO, and Holiday PTO)
- Banking benefits and discounts
- Career development
- Reward and recognition
- Training programs
- Online learning platform
- Mentoring programs
About the Company
- TD is one of the world's leading global financial institutions and is the fifth largest bank in North America by branches/stores.
- TD strives to make every interaction, product, and experience remarkably human and refreshingly simple for over 27 million households and businesses in Canada, the United States and around the world.
- More than 95,000 TD colleagues bring their skills, talent, and creativity to foster deeper relationships, ensure disciplined execution, and build a simpler, faster banking experience.
- TD is deeply committed to being a leader in client experience.
- TD believes that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are client facing.
- TD is reimagining what banking can be for its clients, colleagues and communities.
Equal Opportunity
- TD Bank is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.
- If you are an applicant with a disability and need accommodations to complete the application process, please email TD Bank US Workplace Accommodations Program at USWAPTDO@td.com. Include your full name, best way to reach you and the accommodation needed to assist you with the applicant process.