Legal Support Counsel

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.  

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

The Legal Support Counsel (“LSC”) will report to the Senior Legal Counsel within the Litigation, Investigation, and Regulatory Enforcement Group. The Legal Support Counsel will handle matters where Northern is not a named defendant. The Legal Support Counsel will be primarily responsible for matters that require the production of information or documents, ensuring Northern’s timely execution of garnishments, levies, court orders or other legal process, but will not render legal advice. The Legal Support Counsel should be familiar with all aspects of litigation, in addition to, all relevant federal and state statues.

The key responsibilities of the role include:

• Candidate will perform independently a variety of relatively complex legal tasks related to miscellaneous litigation matters, including independently negotiating and responding to subpoenas, levies, garnishments, court orders and wage deduction orders in multiple jurisdictions.

• Responsible for all aspects of litigation support, including negotiating the scope of the request and deadlines, collecting, organizing, and producing documents in response to all types of discovery requests including third-party subpoenas and drafting written responses to discovery requests. 

• Job requires analytical skills to identify applicable laws and understand aspects of the client relationship. Candidate must have thorough knowledge of applicable litigation principles. Candidate should understand field organizational structure and identify key stakeholders to efficiently and timely respond to discovery requests and third-party subpoenas.

• Responsible for review of documentation to determine deadlines and ensure conformity with legal requirements.

• Must be able to conduct independent legal research on specific issues.

• Requires excellent communication skills to speak with clients, government agencies, or officials on a regular basis to answer questions related to service of process, general subject matter inquiries, and to collect and assemble information.

• Provides case management support, including monitoring and following up on case calendars, filing deadlines, and paper and electronic docket search.

• Must have knowledge of state and federal court process and e-filing procedures.

The successful candidate will benefit from having:

• Must have a valid license to practice law in Illinois.

• Must have experience with subpoena and discovery responses, including document identification, collection, and production. A successful candidate will understand written and electronic discovery well-enough and will learn Northern Trust’s data map to spot problems with discovery suggestions from outside or opposing counsel and advise senior internal counsel accordingly.

• Must have familiarity with legal holds, document management applications (such as Everlaw, Relativity, Concordance, Nebula, etc.) and secure electronic document sharing (such as FTP sites).

• This role requires collaboration, confidence, insightfulness, written and oral communication and being tech-savvy.

• Candidate must have strong leadership, analytical abilities and possess good judgment.

• Position requires exceptional organizational skills to work effectively and cooperatively with internal and external clients, and staff and to coordinate business functions with other departments on dozens of matters simultaneously.

• Demonstrate professionalism and skill working in a team environment and coordinating workloads.

• Ability to multi-task and consistently meet aggressive and time-sensitive deadlines.

Salary Range:

$99,600 - 169,200 USD

Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension), health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability), paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, li