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**Senior Associate (General Counsel & Risk) - Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer** As a Senior Associate in our General Counsel & Risk team, you'll offer expert legal advice across our global offices. Working collaboratively, you'll ensure high professional standards, manage risk, and maintain regulatory compliance. Key responsibilities include: - Adapting to a broad, challenging role that spans regulatory advice, knowledge management, practice group support, and business services guidance. - Utilizing exceptional judgment and strong problem-solving skills to tackle diverse legal and commercial issues. - Collaborating effectively with both lawyers and business services teams at all levels. - Demonstrating a commercial acumen and interest in emerging technologies, AI in particular. - Leading trainings and inductions for risk and compliance. Requirements include a minimum of 5 years' PQE, strong interpersonal skills, and a proven ability to work well under pressure. This is an exciting opportunity to join our diverse and inclusive team in London.
- Compensation
- Not specified GBP
- City
- London
- Country
- United Kingdom
Currency: £ (GBP)
Full Job Description
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer is a world-leading global law firm, where our ambition is to help you achieve your goals.
Exceptional client service and the pursuit of excellence are at our core. We invest in and care about our client relationships, which is why so many are longstanding. We enjoy breaking new ground, as we have for over 170 years.
As a fully integrated transatlantic and transpacific firm, we are where you need us to be. Our footprint is extensive and committed across the worlds largest markets, key financial centres and major growth hubs.
At our best tackling complexity and navigating change, we work alongside you on demanding litigation, exacting regulatory work and complex public and private market transactions. We are recognised as leading in these areas.
We are immersed in the sectors and challenges that impact you. We are recognised as standing apart in energy, infrastructure and resources. And were focused on areas of growth that affect every business across the world.
All of this is achieved by supporting the growth of our people, who help us deliver on our ambition which is to help you achieve yours.
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer: Your goals. Our ambition
The Opportunity
Role Overview
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.
The team assists in ensuring that the firm develops and maintains the very highest standards in the manner in which the professional requirements of conduct, quality and integrity are applied in client relationships, in its management of risk and its compliance with regulatory obligations. The team also helps manage the legal risks of the operations of the firm.
Broadly, you will be involved in the following as part of the team:
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.
Key Responsibilities
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 enquires 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
A 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 firms 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.
Team
General Counsel and RiskWorking Pattern
Location
LondonContract type
Permanent ContractDiversity & Inclusion
We are committed to attracting people from all backgrounds and creating a respectful and inclusive culture where everyone thrives. We see this as essential to our success, including our ability to innovate and achieve sustained high performance. This is a key part of our ValuesHuman, Bold, and Outstanding.
Location: London
Time Type: Full time
