Lawyer

At IBM Legal, Regulatory Affairs & General Counsel, we provide the guidance and oversight that enable IBM to innovate responsibly and operate with integrity. Our teams manage complex legal, regulatory, and compliance matters across the globe. Ensuring trust with clients, partners, and communities. Working in Legal and Regulatory Affairs means tackling diverse challenges, from intellectual property and data privacy to corporate governance and ethical business practices. You'll collaborate with colleagues worldwide to protect IBM's interests while supporting growth and innovation. With continuous learning, global exposure, and opportunities to shape the future of technology through law and policy, IBM offers a unique environment to build your career while making a meaningful impact. As a Lawyer: Generalist, you will utilize your professional legal training and experience to provide expert advice and counsel on various legal matters and business ethics. You will also conduct and direct litigation across multiple areas of law. Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Provide Legal Advice: Offer guidance and counsel on diverse legal matters, ensuring compliance with laws and regulations in areas such as antitrust, commercial, employment, intellectual property, and tax law.
• Conduct Litigation: Direct and conduct litigation, applying your knowledge of laws and procedures to achieve favorable outcomes.
• Analyze Business Ethics: Examine business practices and provide recommendations to ensure alignment with legal requirements and company values.
• Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work closely with various stakeholders to identify and mitigate potential legal risks, providing solutions to complex problems.
• Develop Legal Strategies: Implement effective legal strategies to address emerging issues and trends in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, real estate, and securities law.
• Professional Legal Training: Exposure to professional legal training, enabling the application of legal principles and concepts to provide expert advice and counsel.
• Legal Practice Experience: Experience working with a range of legal matters, including antitrust, commercial, employment, intellectual property, and tax law, with the ability to analyze and interpret laws and regulations.
• Litigation Conduct: Exposure to conducting and directing litigation, with knowledge of laws and procedures to achieve favorable outcomes.
• Business Ethics Analysis: Experience examining business practices to ensure alignment with legal requirements and company values.
• Legal Strategy Development: Exposure to developing effective legal strategies to address emerging issues and trends in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, real estate, and securities law.
• Exposure to International Law: Experience working with international law, including analyzing and interpreting laws and regulations in a global context, would be beneficial in addressing emerging issues and trends in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, real estate, and securities law.
• Government Contracts Knowledge: Familiarity with government contracts law, including the ability to analyze and interpret laws and regulations, would be an asset in providing expert advice and counsel on various legal matters.
• Environmental Law Understanding: Exposure to environmental law, including analyzing and interpreting laws and regulations, would be valuable in ensuring compliance with laws and regulations in areas such as real estate and securities law.