By joining the Epiq Counsel Waitlist Roster of elite legal talent, you will be considered for future in-house engagements aligned with your expertise and preferences. Leverage our network to bridge the gap between your skills and organizations in need of top-tier legal services. Take the next step in your legal career and join a vibrant community of Epiq legal professionals!
Introduction
Epiq Counsel is an innovative legal services talent provider that offers meaningful in-house legal work and flexibility to sophisticated and credentialed lawyers and legal professionals. Our lawyers and legal professionals work on a wide variety of matters for Fortune 500 clients. Epiq works hard to provide our diverse legal talent with challenging work for sophisticated clients that does not require sacrificing flexibility or control.
Epiq Counsel takes the time and attention to understand each professionals practice areas, experience, and preferences to ensure they are presented with compelling engagement opportunities with leading law departments across the globe.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as the primary legal and compliance contact for the Korea business.
- Review, structure, draft, and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements, including marketing, services, procurement, online promotional activities, publishing, production, cobranding, and licensing arrangements.
- Advise on and ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and internal policies, with particular focus on product safety, marketing, and promotional activities.
- Conduct legal research and risk assessments, providing clear and practical guidance to internal stakeholders to mitigate legal and regulatory exposure.
- Partner with Human Resources and external counsel on labor and employment matters in Korea.
- Prepare legal reports, correspondence, and presentations for internal stakeholders and senior management.
Candidate Requirements
- Qualified lawyer, licensed to practice law in Korea.
- Minimum 5 years experience in corporate/commercial law; inhouse experience strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated experience advising on regulatory compliance, consumer protection, marketing, and employment matters in Korea.
- Experience supporting ecommerce or consumerfacing businesses is highly desirable.
- Strong drafting, analytical, and legal research skills.
- Professionally fluent in Korean and English; Mandarin is an advantage.
- Highly organised, detailoriented, and able to operate independently with a strong sense of professional accountability.
- Comfortable working in a dynamic, fastmoving, highgrowth environment with changing priorities.
- Collaborative, positive, and solutionsfocused approach with strong business judgment.
