Assistant Counsel, Legal, Compliance and Public Affairs

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Marsh Description: Marsh Risk / Marsh People & Investments, India, Middle East & Africa (IMEA) is seeking candidates for the following position based in the Amman office: Assistant Counsel, Legal, Compliance and Public Affairs What can you expect: Join a regional legal team at the heart of Marsh’s IMEA business, supporting fast-moving and high-profile matters across multiple markets. Work on a broad portfolio of contentious issues, including litigation, pre-litigation disputes, E&O matters, and employment and commercial cases.

Gain exposure to a diverse range of legal work spanning disputes, regulation, contracting, corporate issues, M&A, and property-related matters. Partner closely with senior counsel in Dubai while building the confidence to manage matters independently. Play a key role in strengthening risk management through investigations, claims handling, trend analysis, and prevention initiatives. Help shape training, awareness, and process improvements that make a real impact across the business.

Build your profile in a collaborative environment with strong regional visibility and excellent development potential.

What you will be rewarded with: The chance to join a respected international organisation and contribute to meaningful regional work. Exposure to complex, business-critical matters in a dynamic and collaborative environment. Ongoing learning and development through close engagement with experienced legal leaders and regional stakeholders. A role that combines autonomy, variety, and responsibility, giving you the opportunity to grow quickly.

The opportunity to broaden your expertise across disputes, claims, contracts, regulation, and advisory work.

We will rely on you to: Advise stakeholders on contentious matters, including litigation, pre-litigation disputes, E&Os, commercial issues, and employment matters. Manage external counsel on complex legal issues, including instructions, progress tracking, and review of outputs. Support the end-to-end handling of E&O claims, including triage, investigation, resolution, closure, and trend analysis. Assist with internal investigations, document preservation, document review, matter intake, reporting, and system maintenance.

Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of contracts and related documents. Contribute to training, awareness, policy, and process development across the LCPA function.

What you need to have: Recognised legal qualifications and admission to practice in Jordan, another Middle East jurisdiction, and/or a common law jurisdiction. 3–5 years’ post-qualification experience in a law firm or in-house role within the Middle East. Strong experience handling contentious matters and litigation, particularly commercial and employment disputes. Excellent drafting, organisational, and analytical skills.

The ability to exercise sound judgment and work effectively with minimal supervision. Excellent written and spoken English.

What makes you stand out

Experience in professional liability insurance or claims-related work. Regulatory advisory experience, ideally in insurance or financial services. Arabic language skills. Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) is a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective.

For more information, visit marsh.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X. Marsh is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.