Director, International Litigation, Legal Milano

Director, International Litigation, Legal
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

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Minimum qualifications:

- J. D. , LLB or equivalent degree or otherwise authorized to practice law (e. g. , have registered in-house status) in the country in which the position is located

- Experience with intellectual property, privacy, antitrust, content, consumer, and/or class action litigation

- Experience in a leadership and management role

- Experience with litigation

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience in litigation including examining and defending witnesses, verbal argument, and trial experience

- Experience collaborating with executives and cross-functional teams, with the ability to be action-oriented and manage a high volume of request

- Experience working at a US headquartered public company

- Knowledge of Google products and business, and the broader technology industry

- Ability to be flexible in a fast-paced environment with limited direction, balance competing priorities, and manage several time-sensitive projects at once, with eagerness to take on cutting-edge legal issues

- Excellent communication and organizational skills, with excellent attention to detail

**About the job**:

Google Legal is a close-knit team of lawyers and legal professionals who operate on a global stage.

We take pride in working for a company with a clear mission ("to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful").

Google's innovative services raise complex legal questions that demand creative and practical answers.

We work at the crossroads of new technologies and existing laws to provide those answers, helping Google build innovative and essential products for our users around the world.

The Litigation team at Google is dedicated to advising Google on a wide variety of complex legal matters that pose litigation risk to our products and businesses.

We manage litigation and pre-litigation disputes around the world, including intellectual property, privacy, antitrust, content, consumer, and class action litigation.

We specialize in giving legal advice about litigation risks, and coming up with creative ways to mitigate and eliminate those risks.

We strive to think proactively and to advance Google's position and interests with respect to legal policy based on the litigation risks that we anticipate, working to move our products - and the law - forward.

As the Legal Director of International Litigation, you will be responsible for leading a team of attorneys managing and supporting litigation and pre-litigation disputes for Google outside of the United States, with a focus on cross-border litigation in Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).

20th century laws don't always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for working with some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age.

Whether you're a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you address unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents.

Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers.

We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.

**Responsibilities**:

- Lead, inspire, develop, and manage a team responsible for all aspects of litigation and pre-litigation disputes

- Work closely with international leadership across legal, product, engineering, and business teams to provide counseling on litigation and pre-litigation disputes

- Serve as the main point of contact for leadership on legal issues related to major cross-border litigation outside of the United States, such as intellectual property, privacy, antitrust, content, consumer, and class action litigation, and coordinate work across the Legal team according to leadership's priorities

- Partner with outside counsel to take an active role in litigation and pre-litigation disputes

- Collaborate with other external in-house counsel and legal organizations on litigation and policy matters

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.