Responsibilities

• Drives the development of legal strategies by providing specialized legal expertise in one or more areas of specialty law.
• Shares growing expertise within a specific legal concentration with other team members and with clients through both informal and formal training and mentoring.
• Identifies and resolves complex legal issues requiring in-depth knowledge and judgment within a specialty area.

Qualifications

• Advanced university degree in law (e.g. JD or LLB); additional advanced degree relevant to the specialty preferred.
• Meets local legal license requirements.
• Typically 6-10 years commercial legal experience at a law firm or in-house.
• Advanced level of experience in one or more specialty law practice areas acquired through being a leading resource in-house or in similar industry or law firm environment.
• Advanced breadth and depth of practical and academic knowledge within a specific legal concentration, with demonstrated expertise in one or more sub-areas within the specific legal concentration.
• Strong knowledge of company policies and procedures.
• Awareness of the international legal environment for the specific legal concentration.
• Advanced skills and experience in negotiating or advising on complex or high value/risk matters in the specialty.
• Proactive and effective communicator of valuable information to clients and colleagues.
• English language skills to business standard strongly preferred.

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