Attorney – Western Europe Legal Team

Our Client is an American public multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions.

Its most profitable products have come to dominate the commercial office suite market, and the company’s operating system, which has achieved near ubiquity in the desktop computer market. The company has also diversified in recent years into the video game industry as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market.

“Come as you are, do what you love.” - this is our ambition and goal for the legal team.

Do you…
• have a passionate interest in technology?
• have an ambition to provide legal expert advice to an international and diverse organization?
• have an ambition to learn and grow when you come to work?
• want to be inspired and inspire others by the potential of the future?

If this is you, then we have an assignment for you as Attorney. You will be part of the Western Europe legal team and report directly to the Swedish Legal Lead.

The CEO of our customer has defined their mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. They have three bold ambitions – to create more personal computing, to reinvent productivity and business processes, and to build the intelligent cloud that will be at the heart of this empowerment. All in the legal team come to work to help achieve this mission.

The role is based in Stockholm, Sweden. We embrace flexible working as a core principle for reinventing productivity. Office location is Central Stockholm. Note that, with the current COVID-19 pandemic in mind currently all personnel are encouraged to work from home and the office is used only on exception as per current guidance from Folkhälsomyndigheten.

Our customer is an equal opportunity workplace and embraces workforce diversity. They have an international work environment that is characterized by flexibility and an informal culture.

The Corporate, External and Legal Affairs (CELA) is looking to add a resource, whilst the role will partly fill in for a parental leave (December 2020-September 2021), it is not the sole purpose of the role.

CELA and the legal team services and advices all parts of the local sales and marketing organization. The legal team support agreement drafting, business advice and acts as a trusted advisor to the Leadership team of the subsidiary.

CELA in Western Europe to which the Attorney will belong has employees from numerous nationalities and backgrounds. The employees are based in the subsidiaries in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Italy the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland and are led by the Head of Legal for Western Europe. The CELA team members include commercial attorneys, government affairs representatives, compliance attorneys, paralegals, and administrators.

Besides the Attorney, the head of legal for Sweden, and the Head of Legal for Western Europe are based in Sweden and the Stockholm office.

Among the tasks are
• Assist internal clients complete or assess agreement templates (such as terms and conditions for contests, MOU’s).
• Guide to the use of internal tools.
• Reroute and identify questions to correct contact (NDA+ tool, ContractWeb, Paralegal, Sr. Attorney, Commercial Executive and Business Desk).
• Asses legal risk and provide legal advice, counsel, and interpret for the internal clients.
• Internal compliance and policy assessments.
• Conduct research and write memos regarding privacy law, international law and other corporate matters as required.
• Administrative work may include creation of purchase orders, book meeting rooms, book meetings, budget issues etc.
• High level of interaction with MS sponsor, the paralegal team and the WE attorney team as well as direct client interaction.

The legal team consists of senior talent and highly competent attorneys that offers high-quality legal advice that you would work alongside. This is an opportunity to work as part of a truly global and nimble organization. The legal team services all parts of our customers sales and marketing business on a variety of legal topics. You would be expected to show interest not only in the legal topics but the business needs that drive them and you have the opportunity to learn.

Basic skills we are looking for and that we can’t live without
• 2-3 years’ work experience in the legal profession.
• A Swedish law degree (juris kandidatexamen or juristexamen)
• Fluency in written and spoken Swedish and English.

Skills we value
The list below is not a checklist to be completed but a set of pictures we’re painting to give you a better understanding of the role. View this as examples of the kind of skills and experiences that we have found help people to be successful at our customer:

• Work experience from international organizations.
• Work experience from the IT sector.
• Curiosity to learn something new.
• Well organized and able to manage multiple tasks effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Thorough with attention to details.
• Passion about technology and what it can do for people and companies.
• Non-prestigious approach.
• Team player - work well with others (both team and clients).
• Interested in learning.
• Ability to prioritize.
• Strong judgment.
• Proactive, resourceful and takes initiative
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Good communication skills, both written and oral.
• Good orientation in the legal topic privacy/GDPR makes your work life easier.

Top-three must have skills:
• Swedish law degree (in Swedish: juris kandidatexamen or jusristexamen)
• 2-3 years’ work experience in the legal profession.
• Fluent in Swedish and English (written and oral)

The candidates we are looking for are fluent in English and Swedish, only candidates with a Swedish work permit already in place will be taken into consideration. The position is going to be based at our clients’ Swedish office in the city center of Stockholm. Expected is intention to stay 12-18 months, this is a temp position for a maternity leave.


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