Hybrid General Counsel | Build Global Legal & Risk Function

JCW Group; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 250.000 - 500.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

JCW Group is assisting a leading international law firm in hiring its first General Counsel to build the GC function from the ground up. The role is hybrid, requiring a minimum of two days in the office per week, and targets a candidate who has served as General Counsel or in senior GC roles within a global law firm.

The successful candidate will define the GC office’s scope, advise governance bodies on legal and reputational matters, manage external counsel and legal spend, and collaborate with

Qualifikationen

• US-qualified attorney.
• 10+ years experience in a law firm general counsel function.

Aufgaben

• Build the firm’s first General Counsel's Office from a blank page: define its scope, structure, priorities and ways of working, and decide what to handle in-house versus externally.
• Advise leadership and governance bodies on significant legal, ethical, reputational and commercial matters.
• Lead the response to professional liability and malpractice claims, material litigation, investigations and regulatory inquiries, working with insurers and brokers.
• Define the working relationship with the Global Risk & Compliance Director, agreeing where legal and risk responsibilities sit and how the two functions work together.
• Manage external counsel relationships and legal spend.
• Build trust and credibility across a partnership that has not had a general counsel before, positioning the function as a pragmatic, commercially minded partner

Ausbildung

US-qualified attorney

Jobbeschreibung

JCW Group is assisting a leading international law firm in hiring its first General Counsel to build the GC function from the ground up. The role is hybrid, requiring a minimum of two days in the office per week, and targets a candidate who has served as General Counsel or in senior GC roles within a global law firm.

The successful candidate will define the GC office’s scope, advise governance bodies on legal and reputational matters, manage external counsel and legal spend, and collaborate with