Legal Counsel
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Job Description
Posted on:
11 November 2026
Location London, United Kingdom
Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time
Hybrid
You’ll split your time between working from home and at one of our offices, hubs or customer locations. Most hybrid roles require a minimum of two days a week in the office, with some roles requiring more frequent on-site collaboration.
Managerial / Technical Lead
This is a general indication and doesn’t always reflect day-to-day responsibilities. Check the job description for full details.
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Job description
This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.
Join us as a Legal Counsel
- This is an excellent opportunity to join us as a Legal Counsel, where you’ll deliver the legal strategy and provide expert, accurate and cost-effective legal advice
- Your role will sit within our Customer Finance Legal Centre of Expertise so we’ll need you to have an understanding of associated legal and regulatory issues
- You’ll be recognised as a strategic thinker and an expert in your field, gaining exposure to stakeholders across the bank and externally
- In this hybrid role, you'll spend a minimum of two days every week working from your office location
What you'll do
We’re looking for an experienced Legal Counsel to manage and coordinate the delivery of legal advice, supporting business areas across the bank including Retail, Private Banking & Wealth Management and Commercial & Institutional. You’ll work closely with stakeholders and legal and regulatory colleagues to ensure the timely, effective and efficient delivery of all issues, projects and initiatives related to products, services, customer journeys, digital and transactional matters either directly or through a team.
Additionally, you’ll be:
- Making sure that legal advice is readily understandable to non-lawyers, delivered within relevant timescales, and manages and minimises legal and regulatory risks
- Delivering continuous improvement in operating practices and processes, including adopting new ways of working and using legal technology to identify efficiencies, improvements and opportunities to reduce costs
- Providing the communication of internal and external legal advice and helping to deliver transactions and projects to stakeholders in a commercial, user friendly and efficient manner
- Managing legal costs through the use of e-billing, auctions and other cost tools and driving a culture of disciplined cost management and controls
The skills you'll need
To be successful in this role, you’ll need experience as a solicitor, providing legal, regulatory and commercial advice in relation to transactions and projects either in-house, or in a leading UK law firm. We’ll expect you to have in depth knowledge of general banking law and practice, the UK regulatory environment and the financial services industry, coupled with the ability to establish and maintain strong relationships across the bank.
You’ll also need:
- Knowledge of our Retail, Private Banking & Wealth Management and Commercial & Institutional business activities along with the commercial environment within which the bank operates and associated legal and regulatory issues
- Experience of working with leading law firms and other professional advisers and consultants
- The ability to keep up to date with and share relevant legal, regulatory, market and legal technology developments, applying relevant insights to day-to-day practice and delivering legal and regulatory change
- Confidence in using legal technology tools, including AI-assisted research and drafting, document automation, e-billing, matter management and collaboration platforms, and openness to learning and adopting AI-assisted workflows and digital-first service delivery
- The ability to set and achieve high-performance targets and use management information, dashboards and operational data to inform priorities, measure outcomes and drive efficiency
Your benefits breakdown
Here’s a quick look at what your pay package and annual leave could look like if you get accepted for the role. We have a wide range of benefits to support you in your working life and beyond.
Tap each segment for details.
Your pay package
100% Base pay This is your base pay package that you take home every month.
+10% Pension funding This is monthly funding paid towards your pension.
up to +10% Benefit funding This is monthly funding paid towards a range of benefits you can choose from.
Your leave allowance
30 days Annual leave You’ll also have the opportunity to purchase up to 5 additional days off.
3 days Volunteering Take time off to support the causes you’re passionate about.
3 days Training Take time to build the skills you need to grow your career.
Total rewards package
Welcome to our Bishopsgate hub
Based only a few minutes’ walk from Liverpool Street Station, the central location of this office makes working there incredibly convenient. Everything you need is close by, so you can run errands, go to the gym, and socialise with friends and colleagues before and after work.
Bishopsgate recently underwent a multi-year refurbishment programme to improve spaces and facilities as well as become more sustainable.
Will this role count as your QWE, and who will confirm it?
Check it against the SRA’s questions in two minutes. If there is no COLP or solicitor where you work, the SRA lets a solicitor outside confirm it: an FQPS solicitor can, from £275.
