Director- Group Procurement & Supplier Management

•Work closely and regularly with senior firm management including Chairman, General Counsel, Practice Group Leaders and Business Support Managers•Provide day to day support to firm's COLP to ensure compliance with professional obligations•Responsible for implementing an effective risk strategy across the firm and maintaining and managing this•Responsible for communicating risk management issues to the business on an ongoing basis to raise awareness and embed buy-in, including internal training on risk management issues to all levels•Providing daily, tailored legal and regulatory advice to the business on a diverse range of queries, including all professional standards advice, regulatory advice, code of conduct and SRA handbook queries, advice on statute such as the ML Regulations, Bribery Act, Data Protection Act.•Responsible for advising on and facilitating complex conflicts resolution•Responsible for International risk and regulatory aspects for overseas offices including, monitoring compliance with overseas rules, ensuring each office has appropriate ML processes in place, updating engagement letters and internal manuals for overseas offices, ensuring compliance with regulatory licence and document obligations, visiting offices for on-going monitoring•Advised on all risk and regulatory and professional standards issues in respect of the recent merger, including advice on conflicts of interest, client confidentiality, non-disclosure agreements, data protection, SRA requirements, contract novation, engagement and client contract terms, management of escrow accounts, insurance terms, international issues particularly in respect of licences, precedent documents, communication with clients, marketing activities•Responsible for post-merger regulatory compliance including review of risks for new business, policy review & drafting for ‘best of breed’ implementation, carrying out refreshed training and updates, refining processes to ensure fit for purpose.

• Responsible for providing tailored legal & regulatory guidance to the business on a diverse range of queries.• Including, but not limited to: professional standards advice, regulatory advice, code of conduct and SRA handbook queries, advice on statute such as the ML Regulations and the Bribery Act and Engagement and Inception queries.• Responsible for advising on and facilitating complex conflicts resolution• Policy drafting and development of procedural manuals• Project Management including, system implementation-instrumental in implementing and rolling out new client and matter inception system. Current projects include: Information barrier collation project and International, Conflicts Search Engine renewal, review of secondment documentation and other ad hoc projects.• Responsible for carrying out whole firm training on new systems and regimes, including the new Client & Matter Inception system, bespoke training on the new OFR regime. Also carry out regular training sessions on various risk management aspects to the practice areas and business services departments• Manage team of 5, risk officers and risk assistants and provide day to day guidance, supervision, training, including all HR aspects such as recruitment, annual reviews and induction• Work with business to bespoke and flex the service we provide, to develop relationships with our clients and to raise the profile of Risk Management• Responsible for making difficult judgement calls and diffusing and unravelling complex or challenging scenarios which arise out of the day to day role of the risk management team. Adept at conveying difficult messages with diplomacy• Act as a liaison between Risk Management and other areas of Business Services• Provide accession support for new member firms• Fee Earning work for external clients, such as drafting policies and engagement letters• Speak at conferences on Risk Management topics• Member of Risk Management Committee

• Responsible for resolution and management of all conflict related issues within the organisation. • Liaising with senior partners throughout the International Firm to facilitate resolution of complex queries. • Resolution of such queries is highly emotive and urgent in nature. Managing such difficult situations requires excellent communication skills and diplomacy under extreme pressure.• Produce regular reports for senior management and client committee/board.• Manage team of 5 conflicts assistants and assist with training, supervision, day to day guidance, including all HR aspects such as recruitment, induction and annual reviews.• Review procedures and implement new strategies for streamlining the entire conflicts process with an emphasis on commercial issues, for both my immediate team and the wider risk team.• Work closely with the Chief Risk Officer and other senior members of the Risk team to manage sensitive situations. Escalating such issues to, and liaising with, senior management to resolve. • Responsible for senior lateral hires for the firm. Ensure relevant conflict checks are carried out and liaise with the lateral hires to clear the resultant conflict issues. • Assisting with file review audits• Drafting documents and procedural manuals in respect of the conflict clearing process.• Advising partners across the International Firm on both US and International conflict rules as a matter of general awareness and in response to particular circumstances.• Liaising with other parts of the firm, such as Marketing, to develop mechanisms for dealing with risk and client relationship issues.

• Providing full support to partners and fee-earners within the commercial arbitration dept on an internal investigation for a large banking client. Investigating procedures used for processing payments and investigating deficiencies in their anti-money laundering compliance programmes.• Reviewing documents, document management, conducting document searches for key information, electronic document management, preparing schedules and indexing, sourcing documents and organising data room, proof reading.

Work Placement

Work Placement

Work Placement

• Managed day to day running of the office, including supervision of two staff.• Progressing each sale from offer stage through the conveyancing process until completion.• Liaising with solicitors, negotiating for clients and carrying out valuations.• Business development including advertising and marketing campaigns.

• Negotiating terms of business, including the necessary fees for individual companies. • Undertaking offer and salary negotiations, drafting contracts inclusive of final salary, and benefits.• Liaising with in house lawyers and human resource departments to agree terms.• Arranging interviews, and controlling the selection process, including the provision of feedback to both parties.• Assisted in the set up of the new Support Services Division, which involved developing new client relationships, and raising the profile of new arm of the company.