Legal Counsel

Your Opportunity

Schwab remains committed to providing increased visibility to career growth opportunities and job requirements. This posting announcement is part of increased transparency and while all qualified applicants will be reviewed and considered, this organization has a preferred candidate identified for this role.

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

The Litigation, Enforcement, and Internal Investigations team encompasses several areas, including litigation and arbitrations, regulatory defense, internal investigations, and crisis-type situations.  We are recruiting a lawyer to join our litigation and arbitrations team. In this role, you will report directly to the Deputy Chief Counsel, Litigation, Risk & Regulatory Legal Group.  

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration. The selected candidate will work on site in our Westlake, Texas location and in the office at least 4 days a week.

What you’ll do:

•    Litigate: Manage and litigate high stakes cases and arbitrations, including the most complex and challenging matters.  Responsibilities include conducting research; factual investigation and discovery; interviewing witnesses; drafting pleadings and written submissions; negotiating with opposing counsel; and appearing in court and in FINRA arbitrations on behalf of Schwab.
•    Provide strategic direction: Lead and guide the firm’s strategic approach toward case management, trial preparation, and representation.
•    Counsel and collaborate: Work across the legal department and with business counterparts and corporate affairs to ensure transparency and alignment; proactively identify risks and recommend mitigation strategies; and lead and conduct training for legal, compliance, and business teams.
•    Lead: Supervise, manage, and direct outside counsel, ensuring that case assessment, strategy, and execution are aligned with Schwab’s vision and objectives. 

•    Learn: You and the team will work on cutting edge financial and regulatory issues essential to Schwab’s business strategy: our portfolio of matters includes a remarkable variety, including those based in securities law, contract law, employment law, antitrust law, insurance law, intellectual property law, and construction law—just to name a few. And you will continuously expand your knowledge and skills to best advise on issues essential to Schwab’s business strategy.
•    Have fun: Culture is important to us! You’ll be joining a terrific team and some of the best professionals in the industry. While this is serious work, none of us take ourselves too seriously.
•    Other duties as assigned: IYKYK. And when you’re a litigator, you know it’s impossible to capture everything in a simple job description.

What you have

To ensure that we have fulfilled our promise of "challenging the status quo," this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.

Required Qualifications

• A law degree (JD, LLB or equivalent) from an accredited US law school and are admitted to and in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar.
• At least 6 years of experience as a practicing attorney in-house or at a law firm leading complex matters related to disputes, dispute resolution, or financial and advisor services matters.
• Strategic, practical, and creative insights with excellent emotional intelligence and outstanding client relationship management and negotiation skills.
• Extraordinary interpersonal and communication skills and excellence at communicating information effectively internally and externally, including to non-legal audiences.
• Excellent judgment and comfort making critical decisions under challenging circumstances and compressed timelines.
• Comfort with people-from from the most senior executive leaders to folks that have never talked to a lawyer before—and being equally at home in a conference room, a board room, a virtual meeting, or a courtroom.
• Confidence and decisiveness.
• A love for challenges and solving problems, taking pride in your work, and finding joy in the process.

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities