In-House Conflicts Lawyer
Magic Circle Law Firm
Up To £160,000pa + Benefits + Bonus + Premium Hours Allowance
5 Days (or 4) A Week - Including Saturday and Sunday
Our client, a magic circle law firm, is actively recruiting for an experienced Qualified Lawyer to join them on a permanent basis in their London office - working as their new In-House Conflicts Lawyer.
***This role will require someone to work Saturday and Sunday (every week), as well as either 2 or 3 days during the standard working week***
Working within the Business Acceptance Unit, you'll be assessing all new business before it's accepted by the firm's Partners to ensure legal obligations are met.
As the successful In-House Conflicts Lawyer, you'll be responsible for (but not limited to) the following:
- Analysing and resolving professional, legal, regulatory and commercial issues relating to business acceptance
- Supporting staff with professional and legal conflicts issues, AML client ID issues and suitability issues
- Responding and managing the team's responses to queries addressed to members of the BAU team
- Monitoring changes and developments in practice, regulations and the law in relating to client ID and KYC obligations
- Screening and advising on terms of pitch documents
- Assisting in the monitoring of information barriers
- Assisting in the creation, development and implementation of the firm's global business acceptance policies, processes and systems
+ much more.
To be considered for this opportunity, you'll need to have/be the following:
- Be a Qualified Lawyer
- Have Legal Conflicts experience from a law firm environment
- Be able to work on both Saturdays and Sundays (essential)
- Ideally, have international law firm experience
- Be commercially minded
This position will also be suitable for an experienced Qualified Lawyer who is looking to make a move into a Legal Conflicts role from another discipline.
For more information and to review a full job description, get in touch as soon as possible!
