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Region Counsel

Paris Area, France, FR - Information Technology and Services

Region counsel Early Career

 Manages the development of legal strategies by providing specialized legal expertise in one or more areas of strategic importance or having significant impact on revenue, risk, or policy for client base.

 Plans and facilitates training and mentoring sessions with other team members and clients to share expertise on a variety of subtopics related to a specific legal concentration.

 Identifies and resolves highly complex legal, regulatory, and business issues requiring highly specialized knowledge and judgment.

 Acts as a master of the area of specialization by networking effectively to share subject matter expertise across a broad cross-section of the organization.

 Scope includes supporting one or more parts of global or regional business or leading complex commercial transactions.

Education and Experience Required

 Advanced university degree in law (e.g. JD or LLB); additional advanced degree relevant to the specialty preferred.

 Meets local legal license requirements.

 Typically 3 to 5 years commercial legal experience at a law firm or in-house.

 First experience in managing multiple, complex, strategic, specialty law projects, issues, and transactions.

Knowledge and Skills Required

 Knowledge of company policies, procedures, and practices relevant to the specialty.

 Developed understanding of how to operate successfully in the international legal environment for the specific legal concentration.

 Experience in negotiating or advising senior representatives of external and internal organizations on complex and high value/risk matters in a specialty.

 Excellent presentation, facilitation, and networking skills.

 English language skills to business standard required

Qualifications

Education and Experience

 Advanced university degree in law (e.g. JD or LLB).

 Meets local legal license requirements.

 Typically 4-6 years commercial legal experience at a law firm or in-house.

 Well-developed level of business experience supporting clients or advising on legal matters

Knowledge and Skills

 Well-developed breadth of practical legal and business knowledge, as well as in-depth knowledge in one or more practice areas.

 Good knowledge of local/regional laws, regulations, policies, and procedures.

 Awareness of international legal environmental law

 Well-developed competence and experience in negotiating or advising on legal and business matters, or focused competency in particular practice areas.

 Able to translate complex legal or factual issues into plain language communications.

 English language skills to business standard preferred.

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