Senior Legal Counsel, Corporate Law

FCT•London, ON

3d•CA$141,080 - CA$172,381•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Legal Counsel, Corporate provides senior management with effective advice on company strategies, products, processes, risks and their implementation. This role drafts and prepares legal contracts between the company and its customers, service providers, and employees. The Senior Legal Counsel manages an assigned caseload, engages and oversees outside counsel, and delegates to other internal counsel where warranted. This position provides continuing counsel and guidance on legal matters and on the legal implications of business and shared services matters.

Requirements

8 to 12 years’ experience as a practicing lawyer, preferably initially with a prominent national law firm before moving to an in-house position.
University law degree (J.D. or LLB) from a Canadian Law School.
Lawyer in good standing with the Law Society of Upper Canada.
Exposure to or familiarity with the following areas of law: real estate, financial services, securities, human resources, technology law.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with Title Insurance an asset.

Responsibilities

Provides legal advice and advises management on legal risks, legal interpretation, and corporate and legal issues.
Gives advice on corporate structure, legality of new products and processes, and related legal or liability issues.
Provides appropriate, timely, and effective legal advice and expertise to advance and protect the interests of FCT.
Provides pro-active advice around any pending or existing litigation matters and strategizes with outside Counsel with respect to the ultimate resolution of any potential litigation issues.
Manages on-going non-claims litigation matters.
Oversees the work that this role delegates to other lawyers/law clerks within the Legal department.
Advises the company on the litigation risks of possible business decisions.
Provides preventive counseling with respect to the legal risks associated with business practices.
Develops strategy with both inside and outside counsel in response to civil litigation and regulatory inquiries (including negotiating settlement agreements where appropriate).
Manages the resources required to address those matters cost-effectively.
Provides legal advice to various departments within the company, including review of marketing collateral, review of all legal contracts, legal advice to Default Solutions, Commercial Services, Data governance, Finance, Residential Lending Solutions, Valuation Services, and Residential Solutions.
Provides legal expertise to the Human Resources department on employment matters.
Prepares trademark applications with assistance of external counsel, brings applications to registration stage.
Is alert to corporate security issues and raises issues for input from and resolution by the relevant stakeholders and reports such issues to the VP Legal.
Provides legal expertise to the Information Technology department on contract matters.
Acts as a strategic partner for the business to ensure that legal issues are anticipated and can be dealt with in a proactive rather than a reactive manner.
Acts as FCT’s Complaints Officer, which entails evaluating complaints received from customers, assessing FCT’s response to the situation, working with the group from which the complaint stems, resolving the complaint, and dealing with regulators should the complaint be escalated.
Provides legal counsel to FA/FCT Vendor Management program which entails assessing new supplier engagements to determine level of risk and legal requirements and drafting appropriate contractual clauses.