NY Banking Finance Practice Support Lawyer
NY Banking Finance Practice Support Lawyer
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Job Description
The Role
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced lawyer to join our Banking & Finance team in New York. This is a newly created role intended to support our Banking & Finance team by providing practice support knowledge management horizon scanning thought leadership and training.
Key Responsibilities:
Practice Support:
- Provide precedent and resource recommendations legal research and guidance on a wide variety of banking and finance matters
- Coordinate with the firms opinion committee to update and maintain the legal opinion template
- Facilitate access to the firms resources and services including recommending lawyers with relevant expertise in other groups or offices
Knowledge Management:
- Collect curate and make easily accessible a collection of precedents templates checklists and other knowhow materials relevant to banking and finance matters
- Collaborate with lawyers across the firms network on firmwide knowledge management initiatives
Horizon Scanning:
- Regularly follow key information sources to identify relevant litigation regulatory and market developments trends risks and best practices
- Provide relevant updates to the group periodically and on an ad hoc basis via newsletters emails and team meetings
Thought Leadership:
- Produce client briefings blog posts conference presentations and other types of thought leadership pieces to provide valuable resources to our clients and enhance the firms reputation
- Support business development and marketing initiatives by contributing substantive content to external newsletters or as part of pitches
Training:
- Organize and deliver training on a range of relevant topics and developments both internally and to clients
- Coordinate applications for NY CLE credit and ensure related requirements are met
- Provide tailored training to new joiners and curate accessible training opportunities and resources relevant to banking and finance matters
Qualifications :
Qualifications:
The ideal applicant will possess the following qualifications:
- Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an accredited US law school
- Admitted to the New York Bar
- At least six years of experience practicing law with a focus on bank finance or restructuring of debt products
- Strong legal research and analytical skills
- Ability to create manage and update legal precedents templates and other knowledge resources
- Experienced in organizing and producing training sessions briefing and presentation for lawyers and clients on a broad range of legal topics
Other preferred skills and competencies include:
- Must be proactive and selfmotivated
- Ability to identify team needs and develop plans or strategies to address such needs
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including public speaking and presentation skills
- Able to work independently as well as collaboratively with other professionals
Submissions must include a resume and law school transcript(s).
Clifford Chance US LLP offers a comprehensive benefits and compensation package. The salary range for this role is $225K$250k. Actual salary will be commensurate with the candidates qualifications and relevant experience.
Additional Information :
Equal opportunities statement
At Clifford Chance we understand that our true asset is our people. Inclusion is good for our team and their families our firm and society.
We are committed to treating all employees and applicants fairly and equally regardless of their gender gender identity and expression marital or civil partnership status race colour national or ethnic origin social or economic background disability religious belief sexual orientation or age. This applies to recruitment and selection terms and conditions of employment including pay promotion training transfer and every other aspect of employment.
We have a variety of flourishing employee networks. These networks are a place for colleagues to share experiences and advocate for change wherever they see an opportunity for improvement.
Our goal is to deliver an equality of opportunity an equality of aspiration and an equality of experience to everyone who works in our firm.
Find out more about our inclusive culture here.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
