Corporate Governance - Legal Counsel jobs at Jpmorgan in Argentina, Buenos Aires

Key Responsibilities:

• Support firmwide legal, regulatory and compliance matters related to ADA, accessibility, and EVP laws for both business and legal clients, including:
  • Researching state and federal case law concerning ADA and EVP and the potential impact to JPMC
  • Interpreting ADA- and EVP-related policies and standards, facilitating line of business impact assessments, and guiding responses to regulatory inquiries
  • Collaborating with Government Relations to evaluate and mitigate legal risks from ADA and EVP legislative developments.
  • Assisting in evaluating ADA accommodation requests and formulating effective accessibility-related customer responses
  • Contributing to initiatives that empower elder and vulnerable customers, including Trusted Contact programs, community outreach, and consumer education events.
  • Advising on accessibility considerations linked to customer-facing technologies
  • Drafting contractual provisions related to public-facing digital technology that relate to compliance with the ADA and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)

Qualifications:

• JD or educational equivalent, and compliance with all relevant attorney licensing requirements, including requirements of the jurisdiction where the role will be located prior to commencement of employment
• A minimum of three years of legal or equivalent experience, with significant experience in financial regulatory environments being highly desirable
• Familiarity or experience with one or more of the following is preferred:
  • The ADA and/or related state accessibility laws and regulations
  • Protections for elder and vulnerable individuals against financial exploitation
  • Consumer banking and consumer financial services laws
  • Government or Compliance
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple high-priority issues and work effectively with interdisciplinary teams
• Strong analytical acumen paired with superior organizational, written, and oral communication capabilities, enabling the clear translation of complex legal nuances across diverse stakeholder groups
• A commitment to ethical legal practice and the resilience to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment while addressing emergent and sometimes unprecedented legal issues
• Successful completion of a conflicts of interest clearance review prior to commencement of employment

LDM is an internal organization within the firm’s Litigation Department that supports and facilitates the legal discovery process, including the identification, preservation, collection, review, and production of information relevant to litigation matters, regulatory inquiries, and internal investigations. The Associate will be part of the team responsible for the end-to-end Legal Hold process including the drafting, issuance, and monitoring of legal hold notices to employees across the Firm, providing guidance about the legal obligations surrounding those holds, and facilitating their ultimate release. As a Legal Holds and Discovery Strategy Specialist, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with innovative eDiscovery professionals across a wide variety of disciplines in a dynamic environment. You will perform custodial and/or data source research and identification, along with the preservation and disposition of data within pre-defined Service Level Agreements and turnaround times. In addition, you will facilitate responses to attorney questions and requests regarding litigation, HR, and regulatory matters. You will also have the opportunity to contribute to broader goals and initiatives across the eDiscovery spectrum in an effort to continuously develop, update and improve our eDiscovery program.

Key Responsibilities

• Action, coordinate, and track inquiries and requests in connection with the identification, preservation, and collection of electronically stored information (ESI)
• Serve as an internal subject matter expert on how JPMC conducts discovery, with a particular focus on legal holds, information governance, custodian interview questionnaires, data disposition, and matter closures
• Liaise between various stakeholders including internal litigators, outside counsel, technology partners, and the lines of business, to advise on discovery obligations, manage expectations for deliverables, and ensure compliance with firm policies and implementation of best practices related to discovery
• Lead and support internal initiatives related to audit readiness and legal technology implementation; and responsible for continually identifying opportunities to improve LDM processes, while consulting on the implementation and documentation of those improvements
• Create matter-related and programmatic reports, and deliver updates to management on an ad-hoc and periodic basis
• Effectively and clearly communicate facts, accomplishments, and key challenges and risks related to the efforts of the team and collaborate effectively at all levels of the organization

Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent,
• Preferable 2+ years of experience in eDiscovery or litigation support at a consulting firm, discovery vendor, or law firm; ACEDS or PMP certificate a plus
• Intermediate PC and Microsoft skills in a Windows environment. SQL, Oracle, VBA experience is a plus, as is experience with data visualization using tools like Tableau
• Strong organizational skills and ability to track multiple workstreams
• Self-motivated, organized, team oriented person, with the ability to resolve multiple confidential and/or sensitive, time-critical, and competing priorities and projects
• Must be comfortable working independently and with minimal supervision
• Effective communicator with a focus on client satisfaction, quality, process, and technology

Description

Job Responsibilities:

• Providing day to day legal advice to loan operations senior leaders and their respective teams globally on commercial lending matters, such as on market dynamics and loan document interpretation

• Coordinating with outside counsel and internal operations, business, controls, and legal teams to address operational feasibility considerations at all stages of the loan product life cycle

• Participating as a legal advisor in cross-line of business projects for the firm's loan operations teams, including initiatives focused on data, transformation, digitization, artificial intelligence/machine learning, and process improvement

Required Qualifications, Skills and Capabilities:

• Must have at least 5 years of relevant experience

• Prior experience with private equity or sponsor transactions, syndicated lending, secondary loan trading, real estate lending, specialty asset classes, and international transactions is preferred

• Law degree. Attorney candidates must be in compliance with all relevant licensing requirements including the requirements of the jurisdiction where the role will be located prior to commencement of employment

• All candidates for roles in the Legal department must successfully complete a conflicts of interest clearance review prior to commencement of employment

• Excellent writing skills, strong attention to detail and a good team player

• Polished verbal and written communication skills; strong interpersonal skills

• Ability to manage projects and work independently

Job Description

Job Responsibilities

Responsibilities will include handling escalations sent to the Business Banking legal team, completing legal research, and assisting senior team members with a wide range of business requests and regulatory projects. The successful candidate will be organized, attentive to detail, exercise sound decision-making, and escalate issues when appropriate. In addition, the position requires a high level of energy and the ability to thrive in a high-paced, deadline-driven organization, where timely execution of high-quality work product is expected. The responsibilities are:

• Assisting with legal issues related to commercial lending, including Small Business Administration (SBA) lending, and U.S. small business commercial deposits.
• Drafting or editing certain client-facing communications.
• Assisting with regulatory and legal research, including review of Regulation B issues.
• Identifying potential issues and working with senior team members and appropriate business partners to provide solutions.
• Updating and reviewing updates to internal policies and procedures.
• Assisting with drafting documents and disclosures, including reviewing legal requirements for new provisions.
• Representing the Business Banking legal perspective on firmwide and Consumer and Community Banking projects.
• Other work that arises, as needed.

Required Skills:

• Fluent in written and spoken English, with excellent English writing and oral communication skills.
• Law degree and membership in jurisdictional organization. Attorney candidates must be in compliance with all relevant licensing requirements including the requirements of the jurisdiction where the role will be located prior to commencement of employment.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in legal practice.
• Excellent legal research skills.
• A team player who can collaborate and communicate effectively with attorneys and other business and compliance professionals.
• Strong analytical thinker who is detail-oriented, practical and skilled at issue spotting and problem solving.
• Self-starter who is able to work independently, takes ownership of responsibilities and projects, is results-oriented and flexible.
• Ability to multitask and prioritize work in a fast-paced, complex business environment and maintain communication with attorneys regarding project status and estimated completion timelines.
• Competence with the suite of Microsoft Office products.
• All candidates for roles in the Legal department must successfully complete a conflicts of interest clearance review prior to commencement of employment.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience or interest in financial services regulation.
• Knowledge of U.S. financial service law and process.
• Experience studying or working in a common law jurisdiction.

As a Legal Entity Management Desk – Analyst in the Legal Entity Management Desk, you will support the Corporate Secretary with Board meetings and compliance with internal governance policies. You will be responsible for scheduling Board meetings, consolidating and distributing Board materials to stakeholders, completing post Board meeting activities, maintaining online corporate records, keeping internal databases updated, attending Board meetings to provide live support, drafting corporate documentation, and working closely with partner teams to ensure a Legal Entity’s overall compliance. You will also provide project-specific support as requested by the Corporate Secretary.

Job Responsibilities

• Support the Corporate Secretary with Board meetings and compliance with internal governance policies including, but not limited to:
  • Schedule Board meetings
  • Consolidate and distribute of Board materials to stakeholders
  • Complete post Board meeting activities
  • Maintain online corporate records in proper order
  • Keep internal databases updated
  • Attend Board meetings to provide live support
  • Draft corporate documentation
• Work closely with partner teams (such as the Global Filing team or Third-Party Vendors) to ensure a Legal Entity’s overall compliance
• Provide project-specific support as requested by the Corporate Secretary

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Job schedule: 7AM to 4PM
• University Degree/Advanced Student - Sworn Translators/ International Relations Degree/Legal background not required
• Advanced computer skills (i.e. MS Office Suite)
• Strong analytical, research, organizational and relationship building skills
• Strong detail orientation
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Highly detail-oriented, results driven with ability to multitask and meet deadlines
• Takes accountability for work product and owns duties through completion with proper follow up, resolves/escalates errors

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills• Experience with Corporate Governance databases and applications (e.g. GEMS) is beneficial but not essential
• At least 2 years related experience in corporate governance is beneficial but not essential

Please submit your Resume in English.