Senior Legal Counsel

Description:

Senior Legal Counsel

The role

Working in partnership with the Executive, CMPs, OMPs, partners and business support professionals, you'll identify legal, risk and compliance developments and shape how the OGC responds. As a trusted business advisor, you'll deliver commercially sound advice on legal and regulatory issues, specialising in conflicts management, while driving the communication, implementation and embedding of the firm's policies to mitigate risk. You'll collaborate across the wider OGC team, including specialists, on firm-wide strategy, initiatives and projects.

What you'll do

• Partner with the Business Intake Team to ensure conflicts compliance across all international offices, including US conflicts rules
• Advise partners and fee earners on complex conflicts and confidential information queries, including the information barriers team
• Supervise complex, high-risk and legal conflict checks, supporting the conflicts team on escalations
• Lead internal investigations relating to conflicts
• Advise the Professional Claims team on own interest conflicts
• Review conflicts provisions in bespoke client terms
• Influence the design and optimisation of conflicts and information barrier technology
• Deliver training to legal teams domestically and internationally, and to the conflicts team
• Contribute to firm-wide projects and strategy as required