Northwester Mutual

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.

The Northwestern Mutual Law Department is seeking an experienced and agile attorney who is interested in joining a diverse, challenging, and fast-paced practice advising the Company on a wide range of issues as the Company works to transform how clients experience financial security.

What's The Role:

This attorney will be a member of the Law Department’s Insurance Products & Operations Team, which supports the Company’s insurance risk products. As a member of this team and working collaboratively with the other members of the Law Department, this attorney will:

• Provide business areas with timely and high quality advice on law, regulation, and industry standards relating to the innovation and acceleration of processes relating to insurance business practices like product design, client experience, underwriting, and servicing.
• Serve as a point of contact on legal, regulatory, and other risk issues in connection with risk products and insurance operations.
• Act as a trusted advisor helping business professionals reach important decisions that mitigate legal and regulatory risks in a rapidly changing environment.

Bring Your Best! What this role needs:

• Candidates must have at least three years as an attorney practicing in-house, at a law firm, and/or in the governmental or regulatory space with experience with innovation in the insurance, litigation, and/or insurance regulatory enforcement areas.
• Candidates must be able to analyze a variety of legal issues, synthesize complex information, research independently, and provide legal advice to business professionals throughout the Company.
• Candidates must have a strong academic record and a Juris Doctorate degree. A license to practice law in the State of Wisconsin or a commitment to become licensed within the first year of employment is required.

Desired personal attributes:

• The scope of this role may change over time to respond to business needs. The successful candidate will be flexible and adaptable in terms of general skills and aspirations.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, a highly analytical and curious mind, creativity, comfort dealing with ambiguity, integrity, high ethical standards, and a positive demeanor, both with the Company’s business areas and Law Department attorneys.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and contribute effectively in a team environment.
• Ability to “own” issues and work autonomously while effectively prioritizing multiple tasks.
• A keen problem-solving approach using sound legal reasoning and practical business judgment to identify and address risks and achieve results that balance benefits for all partners of the Company.

Information About Northwestern Mutual and the Law Department:

Of the Northwestern Mutual Law Department’s 125 people, 74 are lawyers, having come to Northwestern Mutual from all around the country after having graduated from a multitude of law schools and undergraduate institutions and having practiced in a wide variety of settings. The balance of the Department consists of highly-skilled paralegals and research and administrative professionals who support significant aspects of the Department’s operations.

Our Law Department (in every aspect of its operation, including the Law Department Leadership Team, the Department’s practicing lawyers, and the Department’s professional administrative staff) is inclusive and diverse, comprising a rich mixture of people who come from a wide variety of ethnic and religious backgrounds and includes people of color and those who are openly gay or lesbian. The Northwestern Mutual Law Department provides the vast majority of legal services in nearly all backgrounds directly to the Company, with only select utilization of outside counsel.

There are nine main practice teams within the Law Department: Insurance Products and Operations; Digital and Enterprise Operations; Investment Products and Advisory Services; Corporate; Distribution; Litigation; Enterprise Governance; Private Securities Investments; and Real Estate Investments. Lawyers have the opportunity to develop a thorough understanding of the Company’s business needs and are fully engaged in the execution of the Company’s business strategy. This allows members of the Law Department to provide the most timely and effective counsel in an efficient manner and leads to greater career satisfaction for our attorneys, paralegals, and professional administrative staff.

This job is not covered by the existing Collective Bargaining Agreement.

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