Global General Counsel
Withers · New York, United States · 3 wk ago
Legal$350k–$400k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must include only sections that have real specific content. The posting includes: "The Opportunity As ..." which is about the role (intro). Then "Key Responsibilities" (list). Then "Governance & Legal Leadership", "Litigation, Investigations & Claims", "Strategic & Commercial Matters" (these are sub-sections under responsibilities). Then "Qualifications And Experience". Then "Compensation for this role will be commensurate with experience and set between $350,000 - $400,000." That's Pay. Also there is "About Withers Today..." which is about the firm, maybe "About the role"? Actually "About Withers" is about the firm, could be "About the role"? The instruction: Use
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for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must include only sections that have real specific content. The posting includes: "The Opportunity As ..." which is about the role (intro). Then "Key Responsibilities" (list). Then "Governance & Legal Leadership", "Litigation, Investigations & Claims", "Strategic & Commercial Matters" (these are sub-sections under responsibilities). Then "Qualifications And Experience". Then "Compensation for this role will be commensurate with experience and set between $350,000 - $400,000." That's Pay. Also there is "About Withers Today..." which is about the firm, maybe "About the role"? Actually "About Withers" is about the firm, could be "About the role"? The instruction: Use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can have sections: About the role (intro), Responsibilities (maybe combine all responsibility subpoints), Qualifications (Qualifications And Experience), Pay (compensation). Possibly Benefits? Not mentioned. Schedule? Not mentioned. Skills? Not explicit but could be part of qualifications. We should not create sections with filler. So we will output:
About the role
About the role
... intro paragraph(s) ...
Responsibilities
- ... list items ...
? Not allowed. The instruction says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but likely they want only those. Could we still use for sub-sections? Might be okay but safer to keep only h3 sections and embed details in paragraphs/lists.
Thus we can create a Responsibilities section with a list that captures all responsibilities. We'll need to parse the text and produce list items.
Let's extract responsibilities:
From "Key Responsibilities The Global General Counsel will provide strategic legal leadership across the firm, with primary responsibility for:" then bullet-like sentences:
- Working with the firm's Corporate partners and the Global Risk & Compliance Director to support the governance and administration of Withers' global corporate structure
- Legally sensitive partnership and employment issues, including disputes
- Professional liability, malpractice, and other significant claims affecting the US business
- Legal support for strategic initiatives and organizational change
- Oversight of material litigation, investigations, and regulatory matters
Then later paragraphs:
"The Global General Counsel will require an appreciation of the complexity of the firm's international structure and the legal and regulatory requirements applicable to its partnership and corporate entities. They will work closely with the firm's Risk & Compliance function, which leads new business intake, anti-money laundering, sanctions, broader economic crime compliance, enterprise risk management, and routine regulatory engagement. The role may also be asked to act as a director of one or more firm-related entities."
Then "Governance & Legal Leadership" paragraph:
- Advise leadership and governance bodies on significant legal, ethical, reputational, and commercial matters.
- Overseeing the maintenance and updating of global partnership, corporate governance and related entity records and documentation
- Develop reporting and governance frameworks that support informed decision-making and the management of privileged and sensitive matters.
- Build trusted relationships across the firm and establish the legal function as a pragmatic, commercially focused business partner
- Manage external counsel relationships and oversee legal spend, performance, and service quality.
- Promote a culture of ethical conduct, responsible decision-making and sound risk management aligned with Withers' values and 5-Star principles.
- Partner with the Risk & Compliance function on matters involving regulatory risk or engagement, enterprise risk management, professional indemnity insurance relationships, or new business intake or economic crime issues.
Then "Litigation, Investigations & Claims":
- Lead or oversee the US firm's response to significant disputes, litigation, professional liability and malpractice claims, regulatory inquiries, investigations and other legal proceedings.
- Advise on complex employment, partnership, disciplinary, grievance, whistleblowing and conduct matters requiring executive or Board-level attention
- Work closely with Risk & Compliance and insurers, brokers and external advisers on claims, coverage and material exposures.
Then "Strategic & Commercial Matters":
- Advise on partnership and corporate structures, governance arrangements, and related documentation.
- Support strategic initiatives, including acquisitions, combinations, office openings, entry into new jurisdictions, alternative business structures, and other transformational projects.
- Monitor and advise on legal and regulatory developments affecting the firm's business and operations.
- Lead or support negotiations relating to material commercial contracts, supplier arrangements and other strategically important third-party relationships.
- Working alongside specialist technology, security and data teams, advise on legal issues relating to technology, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data governance, intellectual property, and digital innovation.
We'll combine all these into a list under Responsibilities.
Qualifications And Experience section: list of bullet points:
- A US legal qualification (dual qualification in England and Wales is advantageous).
- The ability to translate complex legal issues into clear, practice advice.
- Excellent judgment, integrity, and commercial acumen.
- Significant experience managing cross-border legal issues, disputes, investigations, transactions, and other matters involving significant legal, financial, or reputational risk.
- A strong track record of influencing and building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, including boards, partners, regulators, insurers, auditors, financial institutions, external advisers, and business leaders across multiple functions.
- A global outlook, cultural awareness, resilience, and adaptability.
Pay: "Compensation for this role will be commensurate with experience and set between $350,000 - $400,000."
We need to output Pay section with that info. Since it's specific numbers, we include.
About the role: we need intro paragraph(s) from "The Opportunity As Withers enters its next phase of growth and transformation under recently appointed leadership, we are seeking an internationally experienced, US-qualified Global General Counsel to act as the firm's principal legal adviser. This newly created role will provide strategic legal advice on all areas affecting the firm, the partners, and its reputation, including on partnership governance, partner and employment matters, sensitive internal disputes, commercial matters, and professional liability claims. The Global General Counsel will work closely with senior leadership to establish and shape a modern global legal function that supports the firm's continued international expansion."
We can combine into one or two paragraphs.
Also there is "About Withers Today..." which is about the firm, not the role. Could be considered "About the firm" but not in allowed headings. Might be omitted? The instruction says preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include that info somewhere. Could be placed under About the role? But it's about the firm. Could we add a section "About the firm"? Not in list but maybe allowed as heading? The examples are not exhaustive; they said e.g. About the role, Responsibilities... So we could add About the firm as an h3. It's substantive. Let's include About the firm section.
Thus sections: About the role, About the firm, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Pay.
We must not include Benefits, Schedule, Skills if not present.
Now produce HTML fragment:
About the role
for sub-sections? Might be okay but safer to keep only h3 sections and embed details in paragraphs/lists.
Thus we can create a Responsibilities section with a list that captures all responsibilities. We'll need to parse the text and produce list items.
Let's extract responsibilities:
From "Key Responsibilities The Global General Counsel will provide strategic legal leadership across the firm, with primary responsibility for:" then bullet-like sentences:
- Working with the firm's Corporate partners and the Global Risk & Compliance Director to support the governance and administration of Withers' global corporate structure
- Legally sensitive partnership and employment issues, including disputes
- Professional liability, malpractice, and other significant claims affecting the US business
- Legal support for strategic initiatives and organizational change
- Oversight of material litigation, investigations, and regulatory matters
Then later paragraphs:
"The Global General Counsel will require an appreciation of the complexity of the firm's international structure and the legal and regulatory requirements applicable to its partnership and corporate entities. They will work closely with the firm's Risk & Compliance function, which leads new business intake, anti-money laundering, sanctions, broader economic crime compliance, enterprise risk management, and routine regulatory engagement. The role may also be asked to act as a director of one or more firm-related entities."
Then "Governance & Legal Leadership" paragraph:
- Advise leadership and governance bodies on significant legal, ethical, reputational, and commercial matters.
- Overseeing the maintenance and updating of global partnership, corporate governance and related entity records and documentation
- Develop reporting and governance frameworks that support informed decision-making and the management of privileged and sensitive matters.
- Build trusted relationships across the firm and establish the legal function as a pragmatic, commercially focused business partner
- Manage external counsel relationships and oversee legal spend, performance, and service quality.
- Promote a culture of ethical conduct, responsible decision-making and sound risk management aligned with Withers' values and 5-Star principles.
- Partner with the Risk & Compliance function on matters involving regulatory risk or engagement, enterprise risk management, professional indemnity insurance relationships, or new business intake or economic crime issues.
Then "Litigation, Investigations & Claims":
- Lead or oversee the US firm's response to significant disputes, litigation, professional liability and malpractice claims, regulatory inquiries, investigations and other legal proceedings.
- Advise on complex employment, partnership, disciplinary, grievance, whistleblowing and conduct matters requiring executive or Board-level attention
- Work closely with Risk & Compliance and insurers, brokers and external advisers on claims, coverage and material exposures.
Then "Strategic & Commercial Matters":
- Advise on partnership and corporate structures, governance arrangements, and related documentation.
- Support strategic initiatives, including acquisitions, combinations, office openings, entry into new jurisdictions, alternative business structures, and other transformational projects.
- Monitor and advise on legal and regulatory developments affecting the firm's business and operations.
- Lead or support negotiations relating to material commercial contracts, supplier arrangements and other strategically important third-party relationships.
- Working alongside specialist technology, security and data teams, advise on legal issues relating to technology, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data governance, intellectual property, and digital innovation.
We'll combine all these into a list under Responsibilities.
Qualifications And Experience section: list of bullet points:
- A US legal qualification (dual qualification in England and Wales is advantageous).
- The ability to translate complex legal issues into clear, practice advice.
- Excellent judgment, integrity, and commercial acumen.
- Significant experience managing cross-border legal issues, disputes, investigations, transactions, and other matters involving significant legal, financial, or reputational risk.
- A strong track record of influencing and building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, including boards, partners, regulators, insurers, auditors, financial institutions, external advisers, and business leaders across multiple functions.
- A global outlook, cultural awareness, resilience, and adaptability.
Pay: "Compensation for this role will be commensurate with experience and set between $350,000 - $400,000."
We need to output Pay section with that info. Since it's specific numbers, we include.
About the role: we need intro paragraph(s) from "The Opportunity As Withers enters its next phase of growth and transformation under recently appointed leadership, we are seeking an internationally experienced, US-qualified Global General Counsel to act as the firm's principal legal adviser. This newly created role will provide strategic legal advice on all areas affecting the firm, the partners, and its reputation, including on partnership governance, partner and employment matters, sensitive internal disputes, commercial matters, and professional liability claims. The Global General Counsel will work closely with senior leadership to establish and shape a modern global legal function that supports the firm's continued international expansion."
We can combine into one or two paragraphs.
Also there is "About Withers Today..." which is about the firm, not the role. Could be considered "About the firm" but not in allowed headings. Might be omitted? The instruction says preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include that info somewhere. Could be placed under About the role? But it's about the firm. Could we add a section "About the firm"? Not in list but maybe allowed as heading? The examples are not exhaustive; they said e.g. About the role, Responsibilities... So we could add About the firm as an h3. It's substantive. Let's include About the firm section.
Thus sections: About the role, About the firm, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Pay.
We must not include Benefits, Schedule, Skills if not present.
Now produce HTML fragment:
About the role
...
About the firm
...
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Qualifications
- ... ...
Pay
Compensation for this role will be commensurate with experience and set between $350,000 - $400,000.
Make sure no extra boilerplate. Now craft the paragraphs. About the role paragraph: combine the two sentences. "The Opportunity As Withers enters its next phase of growth and transformation under recently appointed leadership, we are seeking an internationally experienced, US-qualified Global General Counsel to act as the firm's principal legal adviser. This newly created role will provide strategic legal advice on all areas affecting the firm, the partners, and its reputation, including on partnership governance, partner and employment matters, sensitive internal disputes, commercial matters, and professional liability claims. The Global General Counsel will work closely with senior leadership to establish and shape a modern global legal function that supports the firm's continued international expansion." We can make it one paragraph. About the firm paragraph: take the "About Withers Today..." paragraph. "Today, we are a global law firm with annual revenues exceeding US $450 million and a presence across Europe, the US, Asia and offshore jurisdictions. Our clients have interests in more than 80 countries, requiring us to operate across multiple legal and regulatory frameworks while maintaining the highest standards of ethics, governance and professional responsibility. For over 130 years, our firm has focused on and helped successful people, families, entrepreneurs, family businesses, governments and institutions negotiate the wide range of legal issues they face in their business and personal lives. Over time, we have gained valuable insights into the ways wealth can be generated, preserved, deployed and enhanced. We assist our clients in a variety of industry sectors including real estate, manufacturing, motorsport, luxury brands, sport, hotels and hospitality, technology, energy, art and cultural assets, life sciences, charities and philanthropy and financial services. With 17 offices our experience means we can see the global picture. We provide legal advice across a range of different practice areas including estate planning, personal and corporate tax and, corporate, banking and finance, access to capital (both private and public) both equity and debt, real estate, intellectual property, immigration, international trust structuring, philanthropy, luxury assets, international probate, public international law and international arbitration." We need to ensure no duplicated lines. It's fine. Now Responsibilities list items: we need to capture all bullet points. Let's craft list items: - Working with the firm's Corporate partners and the Global Risk & Compliance Director to support the governance and administration of Withers' global corporate structure - Addressing legally sensitive partnership and employment issues, including disputes - Managing professional liability, malpractice, and other significant claims affecting the US business - Providing legal support for strategic initiatives and organizational change - Overseeing material litigation, investigations, and regulatory matters - Applying an appreciation of the complexity of the firm's international structure and the legal and regulatory requirements applicable to its partnership and corporate entities, and working closely with the Risk & Compliance function on new business intake, anti-money laundering, sanctions, broader economic crime compliance, enterprise risk management, and routine regulatory engagement - Serving as a director of one or more firm-related entities when required - Advising leadership and governance bodies on significant legal, ethical, reputational, and commercial matters - Overseeing the maintenance and updating of global partnership, corporate governance and related entity records and documentation - Developing reporting and governance frameworks that support informed decision-making and the management of privileged and sensitive matters - Building trusted relationships across the firm and establishing the legal function as a pragmatic, commercially focused business partner - Managing external counsel relationships and overseeing legal spend, performance, and service quality - Promoting a culture of ethical conduct, responsible decision-making and sound risk management aligned with Withers' values and 5-Star principles - Partnering with the