Principal Legal Counsel - Disputes and Contentious Risk

• Location: Bristol (Harbourside)
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About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for a highly experienced, business-minded lawyer to join us in our Disputes and Contentious Risk team on a 9 month FTC. As Principal Legal Counsel, you will join a collaborative, supportive legal team with great ideas and big ambitions for the future of HL. We provide legal advice, support, and challenge across the HL Group. We manage legal risks and use commercial, legal, and business partnering skills to support HL in achieving its strategic objectives, while ensuring HL meets its legal and regulatory obligations.

Reporting into the Head of Disputes and Contentious Risk, the Principal Legal Counsel will be responsible for the provision of contentious regulatory advisory services to the business, ensuring effective management of contentious legal risk across the HL Group.

You will possess a range of experience from within the retail Financial Services industry to complement our passionate and skilled team in delivering a best-in-class service and be able to demonstrate this via pragmatic and knowledgeable application.

What you’ll be doing

• Provide expert contentious regulatory, disputes and enforcement advice to the leadership team and other senior stakeholders.
• Manage litigation and the legal work streams required for the successful completion of contentious regulatory projects within the business.
• Manage legal risk and resolve complex regulatory legal issues, including those arising from complaints and risk events.
• Instruct and manage external counsel where specialist expertise is required.
• Help develop the legal team’s training and knowledge function and play an active role in the supervision of trainees and more junior members of the team.
• Build and maintain networks internally and externally to gain insight in area of specialism and keep abreast of developments in relevant law and regulation.
• Take an active role in shaping the legal team’s strategy and in achieving its strategic goals.
• Assist the General Counsel and Head of Disputes and Enforcement with ad hoc projects as required.
• Lead on the development and implementation of appropriate standard-setting documents, templates, guidelines, FAQs and other tools to increase efficiency and consistency and manage legal risk