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Summary This position is located in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Office of Enforcement. The incumbent serves as a Enforcement Attorney and performs duties in one of the Office’s primary functional areas (Case management or Enforcement Compliance). Responsibilities As a Attorney Advisor (Enforcement Attorney), you will: Lead large, complex enforcement cases. Develop and implement investigation strategy, such as the use of informal and formal requests for information, civil investigative demands, and witness interviews. Investigate potential violations of federal consumer financial laws with regard to a variety of consumer financial products and services. Analyze facts, determine legal theories, and make recommendations regarding initiation of enforcement actions. Prepare memoranda of fact and law and policy analyses, advising for or against action in areas of concern, often involving analysis of extremely difficult and controversial issues with...

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP is seeking a mid-level associate attorney with a minimum of three years’ experience to join its commercial litigation group in Seattle.  We prefer candidates with law-firm experience, including responsibility for pleadings, motions, and discovery.  Excellent writing, oral advocacy skills, and academics are required.  Clerkship and court experience is not required but a plus.  DWT offers a fast-paced and collegial working atmosphere where associates have the opportunity to work on interesting and challenging matters.  We encourage national applicants seeking to relocate to Seattle.  Relocation and bar expenses are paid. Davis Wright Tremaine LLP is an AmLaw 100 law firm with eight offices nationwide. We are relentlessly committed to client service and look for candidates who share that commitment. At DWT, client service means having empathy for each client’s and each lawyer’s work and personal pressures, business objectives, and legal needs;...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is looking for the best and brightest to help strengthen our team in an effort to better serve as the investor's advocate. Our mission is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly and efficient markets and facilitate capital formation.  We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, where our most valuable asset is our workforce.   We value differences and believe in our employees bringing their full selves to work. Culture is the backdrop for a collection of experiences.  Thus, enhancing overall performance and providing the ability to collectively achieve our mission.  The SEC’s Office of Minority and Women Inclusion is committed to taking actionable steps to ensure that minorities and women are represented at all levels of the commission's workforce, to include supervisory and managerial positions.  If you are an attorney, and would like to seek Direct Hire consideration in our Washington, DC office, please...

Description:  This position is designed for individuals pursuing a career in law teaching and seeking to gain law teaching experience, while being afforded time to devote to scholarly writing and publication.  Applicants should have strong academic credentials, writing experience in a judicial clerkship, law practice, or both, and excellent written and oral communication skills.  The Fellow will be responsible for teaching legal reasoning, legal research, legal writing, and oral advocacy skills to two sections of first-year law students in a three-credit hour class each semester.  The Fellow will teach his or her own classes, but will have the benefit of working under the guidance of an experienced director and with experienced professors in a program in which the director and the professors teaching the courses coordinate the content and pace of the courses.  The Fellow will also have student teaching assistants to aid with courses.  The Fellow will...

Metropolitan Transportation Commission | MTC Association of Bay Area Governments | ABAG General Counsel Annual salary: negotiable and competitive based on qualifications and experience. Application Deadline: Open until filled. First resume review:  Friday, July 24, 2020 . Headquartered in San Francisco, MTC and ABAG serve as the Regional Transportation Plan Agency (RTPA) and the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the nine counties and 101 cities and towns of the San Francisco Bay Region. The ideal General Counsel possesses knowledge and experience specific to the operation of a large public sector agency, including advising a multi-member governing body, and will have the ability to establish effective working relationships with a diverse group of customers. The General Counsel is a key member of the executive team and plays a significant role in policymaking and leadership of the organization. Creative problem-solvers who are adept at finding a path through...

The SMU Dedman School of Law is seeking a Director for The Small Business and Trademark Clinic (“ SBT Clinic ”), which provides free legal services to new and existing small businesses and non-profit organizations that cannot afford to pay legal fees. As it does so, it provides students with opportunities to develop the legal and professional skills necessary to become competent transactional lawyers as they represent real clients in real legal matters. Clinic Description                 The SBT Clinic includes a classroom component, with students earning academic credit, and an experiential component, with students representing real clients in real matters.  Through these components, students acquire practical skills and training in many areas used by business lawyers in private practice, including: Start-up services for non-profit organizations, including assisting in...

Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma America (SDPA) is looking for a Corporate Counsel to provide legal support within the corporate contracts department. This position will be located at our corporate office in Marlborough, MA Essential Functions: Corporate Counsel will work as a trusted partner to efficiently review, draft and negotiate contracts common to the Biotechnology and Pharma industries, such as Master Services Agreements, Clinical Trial Agreements, Supply Agreements, Materials Transfer Agreements, Confidentiality Agreements, Consulting Agreements and Information Technology Agreements (Licensing, SaaS, etc.).  Additional responsibilities include working in close collaboration with internal stakeholders, procurement and finance departments and contract managers in the negotiation and finalization of agreements. Minimum Education, Experience, Knowledge and Skills Required: JD Degree and 5 + years of experience in corporate/contracts law is required Excellent...

Earthjustice is the premier nonprofit environmental law organization.  We take on the biggest, most precedent-setting cases across the country.  We wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people’s health; to preserve magnificent places and wildlife; to advance clean energy; and to combat climate change.  We partner with thousands of groups, supporters, individuals and communities to engage the critical environmental issues of our time and bring about positive change.  We are here  because the earth needs a good lawyer . Founded in 1971, Earthjustice has a distinguished track record of achieving significant, lasting environmental protections.  We achieve this by hiring people who share a passion for justice and a healthy environment.  Our headquarters are in San Francisco with offices in Anchorage, Juneau, Los Angeles, Tallahassee, Miami, Honolulu, New York, Philadelphia, Denver, Seattle, Bozeman, and Washington, DC.  The Alaska office works to protect...

Littler Mendelson P.C. is seeking to hire an attorney with at least 4 years of labor and employment law experience, including substantial wage and hour, PAGA, and class action experience, to join the Irvine office.  The ideal candidate will have direct experience in class actions and collective and representative actions with data compilation and analysis, preparing and responding to discovery, drafting and/or opposing substantive motions (including motions for class certification, summary judgment, and early motions to strike or dismiss class allegations), depositions, and preparing cases for mediation. The candidate should possess excellent academic credentials. Outstanding writing skills are required. The candidate must be licensed to practice law in California.  Littler is the largest global employment and labor law practice in the world exclusively devoted to representing management. With more than 1,500 attorneys in over 75 offices worldwide, Littler serves as the single...

Job Summary: At Disney, we‘re storytellers. We make the impossible possible. We do this through utilizing and developing cutting-edge technology and pushing the envelope to bring stories to life through our movies, products, interactive games, parks and resorts, and media networks. Now is your chance to join our talented team that delivers unparalleled creative content to audiences around the world. The successful candidate for this Associate Principal Counsel position will be an integral part of Disney’s Employment Law team, working on employment matters from the routine to the revolutionary. This position will primarily support Disney’s Direct to Consumer and International, and Parks, Experiences and Products segments, as well as work on matters affecting the entire Disney enterprise -- The Walt Disney Studios (including Disney Live Action, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Pixar); Walt Disney Television (including FX, National Geographic...