Legal Counsel

Description:

The Team: the team provides legal support to the An American Publicly Traded Corporation Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) business, including legal advice and support to internal clients; draft, review and negotiation of contracts and other legal documents; legal research; management and coordination of external legal resources; and training to employees on legal issues and contracting procedures.
The Impact:

• You will respond to internal client inquiries, provide valuable support in handling legal matters.
• Have a specific focus on commercial contracting, including, review, negotiate and draft data and intellectual property license agreements.
• Provide training to the commercial organization on legal and contracting procedures, draft, and update template agreements; and assist with special projects outside of routine client facing contracting as needed.

What's in it For You:

• You will work in a dynamic, global, client-facing (both internal and external) environment and will have the opportunity to work independently and be part of a legal team that provides crucial support to the organization.
• Excellent opportunities for growth and to work on a broad range of legal matters.
• Involvement in various commercial transactions, ad-hoc business projects, as well as assisting with research, process review and innovation, and information review and analysis.

Responsibilities:

• Review, negotiate and draft a wide variety of commercial agreements on matters such as index data subscription and distribution, financial products, inbound data, custom calculation services, web-based services, marketing, consulting, and confidentiality.
• Support sales and other business teams including shared services groups based in the U.S. and other regions globally, advise them on legal risk, and provide business-oriented legal solutions.
• Collaborate with An American Publicly Traded Corporation DJI Legal Team to provide strategic and legal input on matters across different business areas.
• Draft and maintain template agreements.
• Encourage compliance by An American Publicly Traded Corporation DJI colleagues with applicable policies and procedures (e.g., confidentiality, insider trading, and compliance).
• Assist the business on response to requests for proposal, customer due diligence/risk questionnaires.
• Special projects as assigned by manager.

What We're Looking For:
Basic Skills:

• Admitted to practice law in any of the states listed within the Location.
• 5+ years' Legal Counsel or contract specialist experience in an in-house legal environment, with a focus on commercial contract negotiation and drafting.
• Experience with data licensing, business technology, and a general understanding of intellectual property issues.
• Excellent drafting, negotiating, and communication (both written and spoken) skills.
• Ability to anticipate and respond to problems.
• Ability to recognize and accommodate internal and external client needs while adequately protecting An American Publicly Traded Corporation DJI's interests and mitigating liability risk.
• Strong organizational skills.

Preferred Skills:

• Knowledge of the laws of the State of NY is an advantage.
• Familiarity with financial services and investment products would be beneficial.

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