Legal, Risk and Compliance

Protecting
and preparing
for change

Legal, Risk and Compliance

Protecting tomorrow, today. 

Our Legal, Risk and Resilience, Internal Audit and Information Security teams protect the reputation of our firm and our people. This means proactively anticipating where issues and threats are likely to emerge, and ensuring the right steps are taken to address and avoid them. If you’re passionate about setting new standards and unpicking complexity, join our Legal, Risk and Compliance teams.

Legal, Risk and Compliance
Legal, Risk and Compliance: Our experience

What we’ve achieved

Empowering through mitigating risk

Our Risk & Resilience team develops frameworks, policies, and standards, supporting implementation through our culture and regional teams. You’ll work with experts in various risk disciplines, including Enterprise Risk Management and Environmental risks. Our Internal Audit function provides independent assurance on internal controls, ensuring our operations, people, and assets are protected and compliant with international laws. We embed controls in our operations to manage risks from all business activities.

Safeguarding integrity

Join our Office of the General Counsel (OGC) team and play a crucial role in advising the firm on legal, regulatory, ethical, and governance matters. You’ll help implement measures to mitigate breaches and encourage compliance, ensuring we meet our strategic goals. The OGC team manages conflicts, AML, and engagement policies, oversees regulatory compliance, and handles data governance, privacy, and professional claims. Be part of a team that safeguards our firm’s integrity and success.

Protecting our people and our business

The ever-changing cyber landscape necessitates continuous improvement and innovation to ensure that our information, systems, and colleagues are protected. Our Information Security are at the forefront of this work. We help our firm to grow while protecting our data, systems, colleagues and partners.  

Our cybersecurity team is responsible for detection and response (DART), vulnerability management, security architecture and engineering and incident response. Our Security Governance team guide our clients and partners to manage supply chain risk, vet suppliers, respond to new legislation and demonstrate compliance with several Internationally recognised standards. We help our firm to grow while protecting our data, systems, colleagues and partners. 

Our Risk & Resilience team develops frameworks, policies, and standards, supporting implementation through our culture and regional teams. You’ll work with experts in various risk disciplines, including Enterprise Risk Management and Environmental risks. Our Internal Audit function provides independent assurance on internal controls, ensuring our operations, people, and assets are protected and compliant with international laws. We embed controls in our operations to manage risks from all business activities.

Join our Office of the General Counsel (OGC) team and play a crucial role in advising the firm on legal, regulatory, ethical, and governance matters. You’ll help implement measures to mitigate breaches and encourage compliance, ensuring we meet our strategic goals. The OGC team manages conflicts, AML, and engagement policies, oversees regulatory compliance, and handles data governance, privacy, and professional claims. Be part of a team that safeguards our firm’s integrity and success.

The ever-changing cyber landscape necessitates continuous improvement and innovation to ensure that our information, systems, and colleagues are protected. Our Information Security are at the forefront of this work. We help our firm to grow while protecting our data, systems, colleagues and partners.  

Our cybersecurity team is responsible for detection and response (DART), vulnerability management, security architecture and engineering and incident response. Our Security Governance team guide our clients and partners to manage supply chain risk, vet suppliers, respond to new legislation and demonstrate compliance with several Internationally recognised standards. We help our firm to grow while protecting our data, systems, colleagues and partners. 

Latitia Bogle-Brown, Enterprise Risk Manager, London

It’s exciting to be part of a team, supported by the firm, that is proactively disrupting the status quo of enterprise risk management. The firm’s innovative mindset encourages us to challenge the norm and showcase risk as a business enabler, collaborating with all our people across practices and geographies. 

William Kwan, Information Security & Compliance, Hong Kong

You can be successful at DLA Piper if you are willing to proactively assist others and be a supportive member of the team.

Aamir Husain, Internal Audit Manager, Melbourne

My role in Internal Audit means being at the heart of an organisation's success, ensuring integrity, accountability, and continuous improvement. It's a role within a team where no two days are the same!

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