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Posted November 25, 2022

Counsel, Enforcement (Any FINRA Location)

FINRA
Chicago, IL Full Time
Reference: FINRAR-004880_13

The Enforcement Counsel performs rigorous assessment and effective advocacy in Enforcement matters. Execute an effective risk-based legal strategy to...

The Enforcement Counsel performs rigorous assessment and effective advocacy in Enforcement matters.

  • Execute an effective risk-based legal strategy to assess the record fairly.
  • Collaborate with investigative staff to plan investigations and fully develop the record.
  • Research and identify the legal requirements for charges.
  • Recommend a fair and effective outcome, accurately assessing the evidence and applying a well-reasoned legal framework to the case.
  • Advance settlement discussions with respondents.
  • Conduct litigation preparation and contribute meaningfully to litigation, including by conducting witness examinations.
  • Draft clear and organized analysis, and effective advocacy documents.
  • Plan for and conduct effective on-the-record testimony of witnesses
  • Draft settlement documents.
  • Collaborate effectively with other Enforcement attorneys, including within teams handling complex matters.
  • Collaborate effectively with other FINRA departments.
  • Prioritize matters based on risk.
  • Collaborate effectively with managers and incorporate feedback into planning and execution.

Education/Experience

  • Law degree and admission to the bar.
  • A minimum offour years relevant legal experience in a regulatory or legal environment.
  • Excellent oral and written communication and litigation skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills.

Work Conditions

  • Work outside of business hours and overnight travel may be required.

The salary for this position if the work is performed in New York, New York is a minimum of $104,100 annually to a maximum of $187,800 annually actual compensation is based on various factors, including but not limited to, the candidates skill set, level of experience, education and internal peer compensation comparisons.

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Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. FINRA also provides a variety of benefits including comprehensive health and welfare benefits, life and disability insurance, paid holidays, vacation, personal, and sick leave. FINRA offers immediate participation and vesting in a 401(k) plan with company match. You will also be eligible for participation in an additional FINRA-funded retirement contribution, our tuition reimbursement program and many other benefits. If you would like to contribute to our important mission and work collegially in a professional organization that values intelligence, integrity and initiative, consider a career with FINRA.

Important Information

FINRAs Code of Conduct imposes restrictions on employees investments and requires financial disclosures that are uniquely related to our role as a securities regulator. FINRA employees are required to disclose to FINRA all brokerage accounts that they maintain, and those in which they control trading or have a financial interest (including any trust account of which they are a trustee or beneficiary and all accounts of a spouse, domestic partner or minor child who lives with the employee) and to authorize their broker-dealers to provide FINRA with duplicate statements for all of those accounts. All of those accounts are subject to the Codes investment and securities account restrictions, and new employees must comply with those investment restrictionsincluding disposing of any security issued by a company on FINRAs Prohibited Company List or obtaining a written waiver from their Executive Vice Presidentby the date they begin employment with FINRA. Employees may only maintain securities accounts that must be disclosed to FINRA at one or more securities firms that provide an electronic feed (e-feed) of data to FINRA, and must move securities accounts from other securities firms to a firm that provides an e-feed within three months of beginning employment.

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As standard practice, employees must also execute FINRAs Employee Confidentiality and Invention Assignment Agreement without qualification or modification and comply with the companys policy on nepotism.

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