Senior Legal Counsel Litigation Investigations Regulatory Enforcement

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust a Fortune 500 company is a globally recognized awardwinning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the worlds most successful individuals families and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service expertise and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22000 partners we serve the worlds most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Role/ Department: Senior Legal CounselLitigation Investigations & Regulatory Enforcement

This position reports to the Global Head of Litigation Investigation & Regulatory Enforcement group. The Litigation Investigation & Regulatory Enforcement group has a global mandate advising all Northern Trust entities on an array of legal matters including prelitigation business problems corporate and representative litigation government inquiries cyber privacy and internal investigations. This role will focus on general corporate litigation litigation arising out of non fiduciary client services internal investigations and regulatory enforcement matters.

The key responsibilities of the role include:
Manages and supports all aspects of pending and threatened litigation new or ongoing investigations and a variety of regulatory enforcement matters for Northern Trusts Legal Department.
Develops appropriate strategy in consultation with senior internal counsel. Implements strategy and proactively coordinates deliverables with internal and external partners.
Reviews revises and makes timely recommendations to senior internal counsel regarding memoranda motions practice and draft agreements proposed by outside counsel.
Advises Northern Trust partners on litigation strategy and risk.
Oversees internal discovery efforts with or without outside counsel including coordination with internal ediscovery team about document identification searching collection and production.
Drafts facilitates and implements legal hold notices.
Leads and supervises factual investigations in connection with a wide range of legal issues to identify problems and to support pending and potential litigation investigations and regulatory enforcement.
Effectively and respectfully interacts with partners (e.g. relationship managers Risk/Compliance Tax Legal Department Human Resources) or external parties (e.g. regulators other financial institutions investigations staff) in the course of information gathering as appropriate.
Conducts complex research and timely prepares summaries of findings.
Provides assistance in responding to regulatory inquiries and complaints.
Responsible for preparing partners with or without the assistance of outside counsel or senior internal counsel for deposition and trial/hearing testimony.
Supports team tracking and reporting requirements.
Handles assorted miscellaneous litigation matters with minimal supervision.
Researches and recommends hiring of and works collaboratively with outside counsel and other legal and forensic vendors.

Skills/Qualifications:
Must have a valid license to practice law in Illinois and at least five years as a lawyer with a fulltime business litigation practice advising clients in highly regulated industries.
Must have experience as the lead lawyer preparing witnesses and supervising complex discovery in business litigation.
Must have experience with subpoena and discovery responses including document identification collection and production. A successful candidate will understand written and electronic discovery wellenough and will learn Northern Trusts data map wellenough to for example spot problems with discovery suggestions from outside or opposing counsel and advise senior internal counsel accordingly.
Must have familiarity with legal holds document management applications (such as Everlaw Relativity Concordance Nebula etc. and secure electronic document sharing (such as FTP sites).
This role requires collaboration confidence insightfulness and techsavvy.
The candidate must have strong leadership analytical abilities and judgment.
The position also requires exceptional communication and organizational skills to work effectively and cooperatively with internal and external clients management and staff and to coordinate business functions with other departments on dozens of matters simultaneously.
This is a hybrid role located in Chicago Illinois and will work out of Northern Trusts offices in downtown Chicago at least three days per week.

The successful candidate will benefit from having:
Represented financial services clients in litigation and regulatory enforcement matters.

Working Model: Hybrid #LIHybrid)
We have a balanced hybrid working model to ensure you get the flexibility you need and the successful candidate will spend their time between working in the office and working from home.

Salary Range:

Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits 401k and pension) health and welfare benefits (medical dental vision spending accounts and disability) paid time off parental and caregiver leave life & accident insurance and other voluntary and wellbeing benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged senior leaders are accessible and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve!Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

Wed love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the worlds most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us andapply today.#MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process please email our HR Service Center at .

We hope youre excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.