The Senior Legal Counsel, Corporate provides senior management with effective advice on company strategies, products, processes, risks and their implementation, drafts and prepares legal contracts between the company and its customers, service providers and employees, manages an assigned case load, along with engaging and overseeing outside counsel, where warranted delegates to other internal counsel. Provides continuing counsel and guidance on legal matters and on legal implications of business and shared services matters.
As a Senior Legal Counsel, Corporate:
HERE’S HOW YOU’LL CONTRIBUTE:
Provides legal advice and advises management on legal risks, legal interpretation, and corporate and legal issues and 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 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
Advising the company on the litigation risks of possible business decisions, providing preventive counseling with respect to the legal risks associated with business practices, and developing strategy with both inside and outside counsel in response to civil litigation and regulatory inquiries (including negotiating settlement agreements where appropriate), and cost effectively managing the resources required to address those matters.
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 issue 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
Dealing with regulators should the complaint be escalated
Provides legal counsel to FA/FCT Vendor Management program which entails:
HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL BRING:
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 and 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
Familiarity with Title Insurance an asset
Total Direct Compensation:
141,080-172,381
Any pay range is in $CAD. The stated pay range reflects the total expected compensation for this role (e.g., base pay plus any expected incentives or allowances, where applicable)
HERE’S WHAT SETS US APART:
Through mentoring, innovative tools, and a variety of programs that engage and reward, we empower each employee to be great and drive results.
Comprehensive benefits that include Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP) and Wellness Essentials
Group retirement savings plan with company match
Paid holidays and generous paid time off
Hybrid work arrangements
Paid volunteer opportunities and charitable donation matching
Employee recognition programs that include referral incentives
Potential for performance-based incentives
The opportunity to participate in our stock purchase plan
And more!
*As per terms of the employment agreement
