Consumer Banking Litigation - Assistant General Counsel

About the role

As a Vice President, Assistant General Counsel in Consumer & Community Banking Litigation, you are at the center of keeping JPMorgan Chase strong and resilient. You help the firm grow its business in a responsible way by anticipating new and emerging risks, and using your expert judgement to solve real-world challenges that impact our company, customers and communities. Our culture in Legal Department is all about thinking outside the box, challenging the status quo and striving to be best-in-class.

Job Responsibilities

• Strategically lead and manage a portfolio of litigation matters from intake through resolution, including case strategy, pleadings, discovery, dispositive motions, trial preparation, settlement/mediation, and (as needed) appeals.
• Defend the Firm in litigation involving Consumer and Community banking products and services. Assess potential affirmative litigation, and handle strategically.
• Conduct early and ongoing case assessments and develop strategic litigation plans, including exposure analysis, key legal/factual issues, defenses, settlement posture, and escalation/decision points for senior stakeholders.
• Retain, instruct, and actively and closely manage outside counsel when retained, including scope-setting, staffing oversight, budget management, quality control of work product, and performance evaluation.
• Lead fact development and discovery, including document preservation and collection, privilege review strategy, deposition preparation, expert selection/management, and e-discovery vendor oversight. In addition, on matters without outside counsel, prepare witnesses for deposition and defend witnesses, when needed.
• Provide pre-litigation counseling and advice to a wide variety of clients, including the firm's leaders, to help prevent disputes, shape communications, preserve defenses, and mitigate risk in connection with transactions, products, and client interactions.
• Identify recurring themes and create playbooks, templates, and lessons-learned guidance to strengthen controls, improve defensibility, and reduce repeat litigation risk.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• At least 5 years of post-admission legal practicing experience
• JD degree. All candidates must be in compliance with all relevant licensing requirements including the requirements of the jurisdiction where the role will be located prior to commencement of employment
• Knowledge of, and experience with, complex financial products and services
• Ability to assume significant independent responsibility immediately
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Outstanding organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple complex matters simultaneously
• All candidates for roles in the Legal department must successfully complete a conflicts of interest clearance review prior to commencement of employment.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Ability to think strategically
• Ability to write well and communicate effectively to both legal and non-legal professionals, including senior executives of the Firm
• Ability to build and maintain good client and colleague relationships