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Legal & ComplianceCorporate Lawyer

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Key Responsibilities Support the Innovation Business teams in various geos to efficiently identify and address innovation legal issues. Conduct legal assessments of new innovative initiatives,

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Legal & ComplianceCorporate Lawyer

Responsibilities

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→Support the Innovation Business teams in various geos to efficiently identify and address innovation legal issues.
→Conduct legal assessments of new innovative initiatives, including identifying risks and related mitigation strategies in collaboration with colleagues across GSL and the wider Accenture Legal Team.
→Develop clear communication messages and guidance to enable the business and other Legal teams across Accenture.
→Contribute to templates and training materials for the Innovation teams and other Legal teams including those responsible for client-facing contracting.
→Take on assignments as required by the Innovation Legal Lead or the changes in business priorities.

Requirements

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8+ years relevant experience in a corporate or law firm setting.
Extensive experience at a law firm and/or as in-house counsel with special focus on product and offering counsel work, identifying risks and proposing solutions in a legally compliant manner.
Experience in intellectual property and understanding of or willingness to learn about regulatory frameworks that may apply to the innovations.

Education: JD or equivalent degree or legal qualification and admitted to the bar (or local equivalents) in good standing or otherwise authorized to practice law

Strong interest in learning about emerging technologies
Commitment to a creative, inclusive, and diverse workplace.
Good communication skills, and the ability to influence and collaborate with multiple stakeholders.
Ability to work with diverse teams, adapting quickly to changes in business strategies, and developing trusted relationships with business leaders.

Open to work with and understand cross-cultures and locations throughout the Accenture global organization.

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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