Legal Counsel - Online Safety

LOD are currently working with a global technology client for a Legal Counsel specialising in online safety content and expertise across the Digital Services Act.

This secondment will initially run for 3 months (view to extend), working hybrid from their London office.

This position will see you:

• Supporting business teams to ensure ongoing compliance with new and existing advertising and online safety platform-related legislation across Europe.
• Engaging with regulators, including those responsible for advertising and online platform regulation, with responsibility for ensuring the consistent and strategic handling of regulatory enquiries and investigations.
• Assessing risk and coordinating with the wider business as a trusted adviser on compliance and risk management issues.

Regulatory compliance and investigations experience at UK/EU levels is essential for this fast paced, innovative environment. Experience around advertising rules, online safety rules, and digital platforms is a must, including knowledge of the Digital Services Act, Political Advertising Regulations, AI Act and the UK's Online Safety Act.

If this sounds like you and you're looking for your next opportunity, we'd love to hear from you.

Why Join LOD?

People come to us for a whole range of reasons – they might be looking for time for their interests, for work alongside other projects, or just want a change. What they all have in common is a desire for high quality work coupled with a degree of control that traditional models can’t offer, but LOD can.

All of our LODs have worked at top tier firms or as part of major in-house teams. We only accept a small percentage of applications as we choose lawyers who are not only technically excellent, but who can work seamlessly with our client’s teams. This ensures we can offer our lawyers consistently high-quality assignments.

We can offer:

• Varied, challenging, career-enhancing work with market leading brands (from Google to Barclays, and Amex to adidas) as well as exciting growth companies.
• Flexibility and autonomy: you can work anything from full-time on site with a client to a few hours each week from home.
• Training and know-how, as well as support from our dedicated HQ Team.
• A variety of flexible models that include working at the client’s offices or remotely.

About LOD

LOD is the leading flexible legal service provider across ten locations: Brisbane, Hong Kong, London, Melbourne, New York, Perth, Singapore, Dubai, Munich and Sydney. We are changing the way in which clients buy legal services and provide talented lawyers with a new way of working.

We’ve achieved some of the fastest growth in our sector by creating and leading a new professional service category. That growth continues as we launch new services, responding to the way our lawyers want to work and clients want to engage them. This role offers an opportunity to be part of this story.

LOD has caught the imagination of the changing legal marketplace for ‘new law’ services. We now have a team of around 600 lawyers and consultants of the highest quality working across the globe. We have an inspiring client list that range from globally recognised multinationals to start-ups and include the likes of Google, Barclays and adidas.