This job opening is an opportunity to become an integral part of the in-house legal team at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. We are seeking an energetic attorney with 3-5 years of legal experience to join a small, dynamic team of lawyers that provides research, legal advice, and counsel on a variety of topics and issues. This individual will work with many internal client departments and with individuals from all levels of the organization, as well with legal colleagues from other Reserve Banks and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Basic requirements: JD with 3-5 years broad-based corporate law experience as a practicing attorney in a law firm or an in-house legal function. Experience in employment law, procurement, drafting and negotiating contracts and vendor agreements, and tenant leasing preferred. Payments, copyright, trademark, IT and/or cybersecurity law experience a plus but not required.
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As a condition of employment, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston employees must comply with ethics rules which generally prohibit employees, their spouses, and minor children from owning securities, such as stock, of banks or savings associations or their affiliates, such as bank holding companies and savings and loan holding companies. If you or your spouse or minor child own such securities, and would not be willing or able to divest them if you accepted an offer of employment, you should raise this issue with the recruiter for this posting, who can provide you contact information if necessary.
All employees assigned to this position will be subject to an FBI fingerprint/criminal background check and Patriot Act / Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) watch list checks at least once every five years.
Principals Only. No agencies please.