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Legal

Counsel, Litigation Legal Counsel, Litigation The Legal Counsel contributes to the overall success of the Legal Department in Canada by supporting the team’s business strategies and objectives, and by ensuring that all activities comply with governing regulations, internal policies, and procedures. This role provides expert, high quality legal advice and counsel on all litigation matters to a broad range of stakeholders across the Bank and its global subsidiaries. Champion a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge Recommend and communicate high quality and valued advice and counsel on a broad range of legal matters related to litigation Develop and maintains strong working relationships with internal business units Understand how the Bank's risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions Actively pursue effective and effective operations of his/her respective areas, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational risk, regulatory compliance risk, AMUATF risk and conduct risk Champion a high performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains,



develops and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment Graduate of a recognized law school with 3-5 years practical in-house or private practice experience.

Membership in a Law Society in Canada. Sophisticated drafting and writing skills. Banking and securities litigation experience is nice to have Managing all civil litigation matters against the Bank and its subsidiaries in Canada (other than employment, tax and collections matters) Assist in overseeing litigation involving global subsidiaries Provide legal advice with respect to litigation risk on complaints, regulatory and other matters Exposure to a broad range of Bank related matters and specialized areas of the law Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.

If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; Compliance, Law, Investment Banking, Developer, Banking, Legal, Finance, Technology #

📌 Senior Commercial Counsel, Financial Services (Toronto)
🏢 Scotiabank
📍 Toronto