Assistant General Counsel Corporate Services Enterprise Operations

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Assistant General Counsel, Corporate Services, Enterprise Operations

The candidate will maintain current knowledge of, and monitor compliance with, relevant laws and regulations and advise on the same. Manage enterprise-wide effective integrity, ethics, and compliance program. Operationalize strategy, policies, processes, and technology solutions, and assist subject matter experts with risk assessment, policy alignment, and training. Oversee end-to-end eDiscovery program. Maintain defined roles and responsibilities for internal personnel. Serve as a dedicated internal resource to coordinate eDiscovery activities. Partner with IT to vet, source, and manage external eDiscovery providers. Efficiently allocate work among internal and external resources, including processes for vendor assignment decisions. Standardize processes and workflows for matter initiation, set-up, and onboarding. Standardize processes and workflows for matter oversight. Secure external validation of in-house processes as being defensible. Coordinate with IT to identify potential eDiscovery issues with new technologies. Respond to document requests including agency inquiries, FOIA requests, requests for production and document subpoenas. Identify and interview document custodians, document collection, review, and production under tight deadlines. Develop and train clients as needed on attorney-client privilege and attorney work-product protection in U.S. and non-U.S. jurisdictions. Advise on contract clauses related to litigation and alternative dispute resolution. Support litigation, dispute resolution, and agency inquiries under the direction of senior attorneys. Communicate and enforce enterprise records management policy and retention schedule. Ensure policy and retention schedule reflect global regulatory requirements. Provide legal guidance on end-to-end document/record life cycle from creation to archiving or destruction. Assist IT to ensure Information Governance and Records Management are integrated into overall corporate infrastructure and business processes. Maintain a defensible records destruction program. File and maintain business registrations for the hiring or placement of remote workers. Back-up attorney on point for incidents involving data breach response, employee safety and security, and premises liability.

Additional Information

Requisition id: B018053.

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
1551 Eastlake Avenue. East
Seattle
Washington
United States 98102
Website : http://www.gatesfoundation.org/