Senior Counsel, Regulatory Litigation
Coinbase
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $224,995 - $264,700 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Manage fast-paced docket of litigation and regulatory investigations (including financial regulatory enforcement matters) for Coinbase across a range of practice areas
- Develop, execute, and continuously assess Coinbase world-wide litigation strategy and tactics, including providing thought leadership, strategic direction and proactive solutions
- Join team who receives, tracks, investigates, prepares evidentiary presentations, attempts to settle, and, where necessary, litigates lawsuits and regulatory matters brought against Coinbase
- Draft and file pleadings and briefs as needed
- Engage and manage outside counsel to effectively and efficiently represent Coinbase
- Work collegially and supportively with other members of legal team
Requirements
- At least 6 years of litigation or regulatory investigation experience
- Experience managing and successfully resolving strategic litigation
- Experience with regulatory investigations and financial regulatory enforcement actions
- Experience with third party subpoenas from regulatory agencies
- Strong negotiation skills
- Ability to manage expanding litigation practice, using outside counsel strategically and efficiently
- Ability to learn new areas of the law quickly and well
- Organized and detailed oriented
- Basic understanding of the regulatory landscape in the crypto industry
- Bonus: experience working with or in the cryptocurrency space, FinTech space, and financial institutions and markets
- Juris doctor from accredited law school required
- Member of a US state bar in good standing
- Occasional travel required
Benefits
- bonus eligibility
- equity eligibility
- benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
litigationregulatory investigationsfinancial regulatory enforcementdrafting pleadingsfiling briefsmanaging outside counselnegotiationstrategic litigation managementthird party subpoenaslegal research
Soft skills
thought leadershipstrategic directionproactive solutionsorganizational skillsdetail-orientedcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingadaptabilitytime management
Certifications
Juris DoctorUS state bar membership