Corporate Risk & Compliance Specialist (In-House)

This is a full-time hybrid (North Chicago) opportunity with our Fortune 500 corporate client!

We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Corporate Risk & Compliance Paralegal / Legal Specialist to support our legal and governance teams in managing corporate risk assessments, compliance documentation, and regulatory initiatives. This role plays a critical part in ensuring our organization's risk management practices align with internal policies and external legal and regulatory standards.

We are actively seeking a Corporate Risk & Compliance Paralegal / Legal Specialist located in the North Chicago or Milwaukee, WI area with the following qualifications :

• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience as a paralegal or legal specialist, focusing on Information Risk Management, Regulatory Compliance, or equivalent.
• Must have 2+ years experience in the pharmaceutical, clinical, or medical device industry.
• Solid foundation in legal compliance and risk documentation.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite; experience with compliance or document management systems is a plus.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively across departments.
• Demonstrated ability to manage ambiguity and solve complex problems.
• Familiarity with data governance, privacy regulations, and information security principles is a plus.
• Willingness to support a hybrid role requiring three days onsite in North Chicago-based office.
• Bachelor's degree in science, technology, law, ethics, compliance, risk management, or other.
• Epiq Counsel partners with industry-leading clients in support of their sophisticated interim talent needs. Must be interested in practicing in an alternative, fixed-term legal services model.

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Benefits

Introduction

Epiq Counsel is an innovative legal services talent provider that offers meaningful work and flexibility to sophisticated and credentialed lawyers and legal professionals. Our lawyers work on a wide variety of matters for Fortune 500 clients, such as complex licensing agreements, intellectual property, employment counseling, compliance policy creation, and M&A transactions. 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 lawyer's practice areas, experience, and preferences to ensure they are presented with compelling engagement opportunities with leading law departments across the globe.

Should your experience meet the role requirements, the Epiq Counsel team will contact you. The Epiq Counsel team strives to respond to all applications; however due to the volume of applicants, we cannot always respond to every application.

It is Epiq's policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual's race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. Epiq's policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. Epiq is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. Pursuant to relevant law, where applicable, Epiq will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.