JPMorgan Corporate – Legal Employment Lawyer Vice President 

United Kingdom, England, London 

69136154

As a Vice President in the EMEA HR Law Practice Group you will work as part of a team of seven employment lawyers in London within the EMEA Legal Department with significant responsibility for handling and advising on your matters. As part of your role, you will work with HR professionals, legal colleagues, control partners, business stakeholders and outside counsel on HR strategies and products, litigation, risks, and challenges for the firm.

Job responsibilities:

• Working closely with Human Resources to provide legal support across EMEA, including HR and other stakeholders in locations outside the UK, working with outside counsel as necessary and directly delivering employment law advice.
• Managing a portfolio of employment litigation in EMEA; instructing and liaising with outside counsel, determining and discussing strategy, supervising disclosure, proofing witnesses, reviewing draft documents and advising stakeholders, including Legal, the business, Employee Relations (ER) and HR.
• Supporting HR and ER with advice on investigations, grievances, disciplinaries, dismissals, appeals, redundancies, recruitment, contracts of employment, termination agreements, restrictive covenants, matters relating to diversity, opportunity and inclusion, and employee data protection issues.
• Providing advice and support on legal developments across the region and firm initiatives, including reviewing, drafting and updating related materials.
• Advising on regulatory issues in the context of conduct and remuneration matters and assisting in the handling of regulatory inquiries.
• Advising generally in relation to non-contentious employment issues, including outsourcings and transactions involving TUPE/ARD and share acquisitions, which often involve more than one jurisdiction, either in EMEA or on a global basis.
• Managing relationships with outside employment counsel across EMEA.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Strong academic qualifications.
• Solid employment law experience from either the employment department of a law firm, preferably with experience of acting for banks, or equivalent experience within a legal department of a large financial institution.
• Sound knowledge of all aspects of employment law, including discrimination, whistleblowing, grievance procedures, disciplinaries, changes to terms and conditions, redundancies, TUPE/ARD and reorganisations, drafting and negotiating settlement agreements and experience in employment litigation.
• Strong relationship management and people skills with an ability to build and maintain effective partnerships with HR, control partners, business stakeholders and legal colleagues.
• Ability to demonstrate ownership of matters and drive them forward, act with urgency as appropriate and, when needed, respond to issues under time critical deadlines.
• Lawyer must be licensed to practise law and a member in good standing in the state/jurisdiction in which the position is based or otherwise in compliance with the in-house counsel registration rules of that state/jurisdiction and successfully complete a conflicts of interest clearance review prior to commencement of employment.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Previous in-house experience, whether on secondment or in employment.
• Familiarity with the regulatory requirements applicable to a firm like JPMorganChase.
• Experience in dealing with multi-jurisdictional matters and/or advising on local employment law requirements across EMEA.