Legal Analyst

 

 

 

Requisition ID: 224430

 Salary Range: 69,400.00 - 129,000.00 

Please note that the Salary Range shown is a guideline only. Salary offered may vary based on factors, including, but not limited to, the successful candidate’s relevant knowledge, skills, and experience.

 

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

 

Global Banking and Markets 

 

Global Banking and Markets (GBM) is a leading Canadian Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a growing platform in the US and Latin America, operating globally for over 100 years. Scotiabank’s strong U.S. presence provides our clients an important bridge to this key global market for trade and investment flows across the Americas and the world. 

 

Global Banking & Markets provides a full range of investment banking, credit and risk management products and services relevant to the financing and strategic development needs of our clients. Our products include debt and equity financing, mergers & acquisitions, corporate banking, institutional equity sales, trading and research, fixed income products, derivatives, energy, foreign exchange and precious & metals. We also cross-sell the full range of wholesale products and services offered by the Scotiabank Group.  

 

Be part of an innovative, Global Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a unique geographic footprint that puts capital to work for our clients across industries!  We work together to drive ambition for every future! 

 

Purpose

 

Contributes to the overall success of the U.S. Legal Department with responsibility for managing, coordinating and tracking legal processes and work product for a team of five (5) litigation, regulatory enforcement, and employment counsel for matters affecting the Bank's U.S. Global Banking & Markets business.

What You'll Do

 

• Coordinate third-party legal request process with oversight of counsel.  
• Manage intake, tracking, and response to subpoenas, requests for information, class action notices and other legal inquiries and notices.  Take responsibility and ownership over day-to-day processes from initial intake and stakeholder reach-out through internal signoff and response to requesting party.  Track deadlines and timely update legal counsel.  Retain and organize all records.  
• Coordinate internal monthly and quarterly reporting on department matters.
• Draft and provide updates and reports as to ongoing litigation, employment, and regulatory matters, including committee and board presentations and other reports.  Liaise with relevant stakeholders and track deadlines.  Retain and organize all records.
• Track department matters and retain and organize relevant records and materials.
• Support litigation, employment, and regulatory lawyers, including tracking matter status and court dockets and maintaining calendar.  Gain a substantive understanding of department matters and assist lawyers with tracking tasks and deadlines.
• Support department lawyers and staff in completing legal projects.
• Tasks may include but are not limited to:  tracking and organizing discovery materials, taking notes during witness or custodian interviews, summarizing interviews or meetings, assisting with fact gathering, investigations, and document review, partnering with Preservation and eDiscovery teams and outside counsel to preserve, collect and process electronically stored information, communicating requests and information to other departments, proofreading and finalizing legal materials, and drafting initial discovery responses, legal hold notices, and custodian lists.
• Review, revise and maintain policies and procedures for litigation, regulatory enforcement, and employment legal team.
• Support Head of U.S. Legal Operations as needed.
• Tasks may include but are not limited to:  tracking matter budgets, pulling/processing invoices and assisting with finance reports, helping with department’s Risk Control Self-Assessments (“RCSAs”), aiding Head of U.S. Legal Operations with departmental budget, ma