Unisys
Associate General Counsel Manager
Philippines · Work style not stated · Full time
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- EmployerUnisys
- LocationPhilippines
- Work styleWork style not stated
- Employment typeFull time
- Employer posted
What success looks like in this role:
• Serves as counsel for an assigned departmental or functional area, or within a defined area of law.
• With guidance from senior lawyers, provides legal advice and counsel to management and associates on a range of corporate and business issues.
• With guidance from senior lawyers, engages with business leaders to understand direction, changes and objectives; provides advice on potential legal issues or challenges.
• Enforces Legal policies and procedures.
• With guidance or in partnership with senior lawyers, presents training to internal clients on specified legal topics.
• Collaborates with supported Finance & Accounting, Sales & Sales Excellence, Corporate Operations, Engineering / Product Development, Marketing & Communications and/or others, to ensure that product offerings, business dealings and agreements are legally compliant and protective of the company’s interests.
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May provide service and advice within or across areas described below.
• Works with supported stakeholders, helping ensure their understanding of and support for internal checks, controls and related governance standards.
• Supports all governance functions and creation of public filings.
• Supports entity management and maintenance.
• Monitors legislative and agency pronouncements, publications and activities.
• Assists in researching, tracking and updating privacy and data regulation related notices, policies, standards, guidelines and processes.
• Works with internal teams to understand business objectives and address potential privacy issues and considerations.
• Advises internal teams to ensure compliance with privacy regulations.
• Assists with development of public policy-related position papers, presentations and other documentation.
• Participates in new product development process reviews to ascertain compliance with IP policies and methodologies, and to develop IP for the organization.
• Participates in patent searches and evaluations in support of new product development.
• Supports efforts to evaluate potential third-party infringement of Unisys IP.
• Supports senior lawyers in IP disputes and litigation.
• Participates in trademark searches in support of new marks/rebranding.
• Engages with HR teams and management to understand and help address a variety of employment and labor issues, including recruiting, hiring, associate relations, equal employment opportunity compliance and issues associated with contingent workers.
• Supports broader organizational policy development, evaluation and related initiatives from an employment law / legal perspective.
• Supports efforts to address disputes within designated area of responsibility, working with outside counsel and internal teams.
• Supports internal investigations and manages administrative matters associated with litigation.
• Participates in / support subpoena response.
• Maintains accurate reporting of all in-house litigation, disputes, subpoenas and bankruptcy including upcoming deadlines, matter statuses, opening and closing and each matter submitted to outside counsel, defense matters, and judgements sent to collection.
• Supports eDiscovery functions for cases.
• Helps draft, negotiate and interpret commercial contracts.
• In partnership with more senior counsel, reviews, advises on and negotiates a variety of commercial contracts, including contracts covering software licensing, SaaS, professional services and online terms and conditions.
• Partners with internal business associates to develop and execute action plans to resolve issues presented in contract negotiations.
• Provides advice on operational legal topics, including data strategy and data licensing.
• Will serve on the board of the Philippines legal entities.The lawyer will need to act as company secretary and potentially also as director.
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You will be successful in this role if you have:
BA/BS degree and 6-8 years’ relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and experience
Unisys is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that considers all qualified applicants without regard to age, caste, citizenship, color, disability, family medical history, family status, ethnicity, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, national origin, parental status, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, veteran status or any other category protected by law.
This commitment includes our efforts to provide for all those who seek to express interest in employment the opportunity to participate without barriers. If you are a US job seeker unable to review the job opportunities herein, or cannot otherwise complete your expression of interest, without additional assistance and would like to discuss a request for reasonable accommodation, please contact our Global Recruiting organization at GlobalRecruiting@unisys.com or alternatively Toll Free: 888-560-1782 (Prompt 4). US job seekers can find more information about Unisys’ EEO commitment here.
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- Employment typeFull time
- SeniorityEntry level
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