Attorney – Fraud & Claims and At-Risk Persons

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!
 

Job Description:
This job is responsible for providing legal counsel on Consumer and Wealth Management related products, services, and regulatory matters. Key responsibilities include reviewing legal documents, interpreting laws and regulations, performing legal research, and communicating legal advice to internal partners. Job expectations include directing the work of outside counsel on related matters and coordinating the work of Paralegals or other Legal staff.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzes legal issues and implications on consumer banking and wealth management products, services, and regulatory matters
• Communicates clear, concise, actionable, and business-informed legal advice, including occasionally to leadership
• Interprets rulings, laws, and regulations from a compliance and business control standpoint
• Drafts, reviews, and/or negotiates complex legal documents, such as engagement letters, debt agreements, offering documents, and legal opinions
• Gathers, assesses, and evaluates information from various sources to make a judgment or inference
• Supports company responses to government agency examinations and investigations, enforcement actions, private complaints, and litigation

Skills:

• Advisory
• Influence
• Interpret Relevant Laws, Rules, and Regulations
• Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines
• Risk Management
• Critical Thinking
• Decision Making
• Issue Management
• Legal Drafting and Writing
• Regulatory Compliance
• Attention to Detail
• Collaboration
• Executive Presence
• Legal Structures and Legal Forms
• Problem Solving

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years prior experience working as an attorney in a law firm or in-house legal department.

Desired Qualifications:

Prefer candidate have worked as an attorney in an in-house legal department for a financial institution, ideally working with deposit/payments (debit card, ATM, ACH, Zelle, wire transfers, checks, etc.) and credit (credit card, mortgage, HELOC, auto loans, etc.) banking products/services, particularly focused on fraud and scam-related matters, elder/at-risk person exploitation, transaction dispute claims/complaints, pre-litigation dispute resolution, risk account closures, account takeover situations, identity theft and fraud strategies. Experience with EFTA/Regulation E, TILA/Regulation Z, UCC, Reg CC and state elder exploitation/abuse laws is preferred.

Minimum Education Requirement: Doctorate degree in related field

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