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Risk Lawyer

Employer
CMS
Location
England, London
Salary
Negotiable
Closing date
21 Apr 2021

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Vacancy Type
Other specialist roles, Risk Management
Contract Type
Permanent
Practice Area
Banking & Finance, Risk / Compliance
Experience Level
0-2yrs PQE, 2-5yrs PQE, 5+ yrs PQE
Role Classification
Lawyer

Job Details

CMS have a new and exciting opportunity for a Risk Lawyer to join our recently restructured Risk & Compliance Team!

About CMS

CMS is a Future Facing firm. With 75 offices in 43 countries and 4,800+ lawyers worldwide, we combine deep sector understanding with a global overview, giving us the ability not only to see what's coming, but to shape it.

CMS is well equipped to help our clients face the future with confidence. We are driven by technology and readily embrace the possibilities it opens up for developing new and better ways of delivering legal services. Our bold approach to a changing future ensures that we nurture our employees and recruit top talent.


About the role

The role supports the Head of Risk/Senior Risk Manager in identifying and managing the firm's regulatory, compliance and professional risks.
The role involves managing risk across all of Cameron Mckenna Nabarro Olswang LLP ("CMNO") offices, ensuring that CMNO's reputation is preserved and professional rules and laws are complied with.
Key Reponsibiities:
- Manage the Risk Team inbox and responding to a wide range of compliance queries raised by fee earners and business support departments ("internal clients")
- When necessary work closely with the Conflicts Manager to resolve escalated conflict issues, of a commercial and legal nature, within the firm
- Respond to general risk queries on the interpretation and application of the SRA Code of Conduct
- Providing support to internal clients on general compliance matters such as share dealing, confidentiality obligations, outside interests, anti-bribery and corruption
- Assisting with auditor, third party reliance, secondment and supplier documents
- Advise internal clients on the use of engagement letters and terms of business, including key provisions such as, conflict wavier language, confidentiality, limitation of liability
- Review and advise on client terms, working closely with the Risk Department's Contract Lawyer
- Deliver firm-wide training on compliance and risk issues so that internal clients are kept up to date with the firm's policies and procedures as well as understanding their personal responsibilities
- Assisting with internal risk assessments, audits and investigations
- Assisting with data protection issues, such as data breaches and subject access requests
- Reviewing client file requests in accordance with firm protocol
- Maintain and improve systems, processes, procedures, policies and team guidance
- Acting as a point of contact on regulatory risk issues from the wider new business intake teams, including Conflicts, AML and Matter Administration
- Advise internal clients on any relevant risk and compliance issues associated with the taking on of new business
- Monitor developments in relevant law, regulation, policy and market practice and work with the Head of Risk/Senior Risk Manager in amending existing policies and procedures or drafting new ones as necessary
- Assisting the Head of Risk/Senior Risk Manager with various strategic risk projects from time to time and the firm's General Counsels
- Building the profile of the Risk Department within CMNO


About you

- Qualified lawyer
- Experience of working in an international commercial law environment
- Knowledge of the SRA code of Conduct
- Contract review experience
- Excellent research and analytical experience
- Discrete and professional as the information will be confidential and sensitive
- Flexible and able to adapt to new situations, processes and technology.
- Proactive, resilient and calm under pressure
- Ability to handle conflicts and difficult queries with diplomacy and tact
- Able to demonstrate structured critical thinking skills
- Sound judgement and analytical skills
- Clear and efficient communication skills
- Strong organisation skills
- Experience in compliance and professional practice regulation
- Training experience in compliance procedures
- Data protection experience
- Experience in resolving complex conflict issues


Equal opportunities

At CMS, a next-generation mindset is woven into all we do. We're diverse, supportive and inclusive, embracing our corporate social responsibility and creating a culture of sustainability in which every one of our people, whatever their background, can maximise their potential and thrive.

For further information about CMS' diversity initiatives and programmes, please click here to view the diversity pages on our website.

Please apply online or contact a member of the Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions. For information regarding our competitive range of benefits please visit our Rewards & Benefits page on our website.

Please note that CMS have a preferred agency panel in place. Only applications submitted via the portal at the point of instruction will be accepted.

Company

CMS is a future facing international law firm. With 74 offices in 44 countries and 5000+ lawyers worldwide, and home to business services colleagues across everything from Information Technology, Human Resources and Innovation to Finance, Diversity & Inclusion and Communications.  The firm’s core purpose is to build rewarding futures for its clients, people, and communities.

We’re a global law firm. We focus on the big and the small. We look to the future and embrace agility and challenge. We are experts in our sectors and have the rankings to back that up.  But it’s not all sectors and rankings. We focus on relationships. We’re a community. We look out for each other, encourage everyone to be themselves, and the best version of that. We’re friendly and go-getting. We act with purpose and find passion in what we do. We seek out different ways of thinking and doing. We don’t want everyone to be the same.  We know the best route forward is with the most diverse group of colleagues as possible. We’re here to build a better future.

In a world of ever-accelerating change where technology is increasingly important in the deployment of global strategies, every team at CMS is empowered to operate and innovate in ways that best meet clients’ needs. We encourage ideas from every corner of our business. We are also committed to addressing our own impact on the environment and approach to sustainability, as well as advising clients with their related legal needs.

We strive to spend more time looking at our clients’ world than inwards at ours.  That’s what makes our approach different. Being able to see things from our clients’ perspective means our people are approachable and accessible. And this means we have a genuinely supportive, open culture you won’t find everywhere. 

Our culture

It’s all about relationships. Our relationship with you, your relationship with us, and the relationships we have with clients and the communities around us. We want you to thrive and show your personality. Foster community, work together, listen, be open, and help each other succeed. Act with purpose and find passion. Strive for progress and embrace challenges. Seek out different ways of thinking and doing. We value trust over rules.

At CMS, a next-generation mindset is woven into all we do.  We're diverse, supportive, and inclusive, embracing our corporate social responsibility and creating a culture of sustainability in which every one of our people, whatever their background, can maximise their potential and thrive.  

Whatever your specialism, and whether you’re a lawyer or a business services professional, a career at CMS gives you huge scope to carve out a brilliant career as you help us, and our clients, to face the future with confidence.

Company info
Website
Telephone
+44 (0) 20 7367 3000
Location
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London
EC4N 6AF
United Kingdom

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