Associate Counsel

**JOB DESCRIPTION**
**Associate & Counsel - J.P. Morgan Wealth Management/Consumer and Community Banking Legal department**

Join JPMorgan Chase & Co., a leading global financial services firm, as an Associate & Counsel in our Wealth Management/Consumer and Community Banking Legal department. This role provides the opportunity to work closely with specific groups, offering legal services to the Corporation. As part of the J.P. Morgan Wealth Management Office of General Counsel, you'll contribute to our commitment to excellence in investment banking, financial services, and asset management.

**Position Description**

As an Associate Counsel in the J.P. Morgan Wealth Management Legal Team, you will be responsible for providing legal support to the firm's wealth management businesses. This includes handling escalations, conducting legal research, and assisting senior team members with various business requests and regulatory projects. You will also be involved in reviewing account documentation, drafting customer-facing communications, and working on special projects. This role requires excellent legal research skills, strong analytical thinking, and the ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment.

**Responsibilities**:

- Handle escalations sent to the JPM WM legal team, complete legal research, and assist senior team members with a wide range of business requests and regulatory projects.
- Be organized, attentive to detail, exercise sound decision-making, and escalate issues when appropriate.
- Thrive in a high-paced, deadline-promote organization, where timely execution of high-quality work product is expected.
- Review account documentation, including powers of attorney, non-disclosure agreements, trust agreements, entity documents (e.g. corporate resolutions, by-laws, partnership agreements), court orders, guardianship documents, complex beneficiary changes, estate documentation (e.g., death certificates, wills), and retirement account documents.
- Draft or edit certain customer facing communications.
- Conduct legal and market research.
- Identify potential issues and work with senior team members and appropriate business partners to provide solutions and Update account agreements, customer-facing documents, and disclosures, including reviewing legal requirements for new provisions.

**Required qualifications, capabilities and skills**:

- Minimum of 2 years of experience in legal practice.
- Excellent legal research skills. A team player who can collaborate and communicate effectively with attorneys and other business and compliance professionals.
- Strong analytical thinker who is detail-oriented, practical and skilled at issue spotting and problem solving.
- Self-starter who is able to work independently, takes ownership of responsibilities and projects, is results-oriented and flexible.Ability to multitask and prioritize work in a fast-paced, complex business environment and maintain communication with attorneys regarding project status and estimated completion timelines.

**Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills**:

- LLM preferred.
- Experience with Westlaw or similar services preferred.
- Experience or interest in broker-dealer and investment advisory matters, including financial services regulation and/or financial services litigation.
- Knowledge of U.S. financial service law and process.
- Experience studying or working in a common law jurisdiction.

**ABOUT US**

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

**ABOUT THE TEAM**

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

With large, global operations, the Legal team tackles complex issues and