Legal Operations Professional Legal Ops Lawyer

We are currently seeking several Legal Operations Professionals and/or Legal Operations Lawyersto work with various Axiom clients across all industries.

Responsibilities may include:

• • Technology and Process Optimization:Identify implement and manage legal technology solutions and tools that enhance efficiencies within the legal department. Streamline processes and workflows leveraging data analytics to improve decision-making and operational effectiveness.

  • Compliance and Risk Management: Ensure that effective policies and procedures are in place to maintain compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. Identify and mitigate risks by implementing best practices in contract management legal support support and corporate governance.

  • Strategic Planning and Budget Management: Develop and manage the legal departments budget ensuring efficient allocation of resources. Implement strategic planning initiatives to support the legal teams objectives and improve overall departmental performance. Negotiate rates and fee structures with outside counsel to ensure competitive and cost-effective arrangements. This includes benchmarking analysiswith peer firms and presenting financial impact findings to senior management. Oversee the creation of formal confirmations of rate agreements withlaw firms.

  • Vendor and External Partner Management: Oversee the selection negotiation and management of relationships with external legal service providers and vendors aiming to optimize cost-effectiveness and quality of service. Analyse financial data to optimize law firm selection and outside counsel management. Monitor and analyse market trends in legal pricing and provide recommendations for cost savings and efficiencies. Strategise the use of outside counsel and advise and/or manage both internal and external stakeholders on questions and issues related to outside counsel management

Minimum Qualifications:

• Several years of dedicated legal operations experience as a legal operations professional and/or legal operations lawyer.
• In-house legal experience is preferred (directly or as a secondee) but not essential.
• Strong commercial understanding aptitude for project management and excellent interpersonal skills.
• You must have the right to work in the UK.

Compensation Benefits & Location:

This role offers competitive compensation and a highly competitive benefits package in the alternative legal services marketplace that includes Medical dental and more. Axiomites also get access to professional development resources and learning and development programs. Axiom provides the opportunity to work remotely onsite or hybrid depending on client requirements.

Axiom is the global leader in high-caliber on-demand legal talent. Covering North America the UK Europe and APAC we enable legal departments to drive efficiency and growth and meet the demands of todays business landscape with best in breed alterative legal services.

Axiom is a leader in diversity inclusion and social engagement. Diversity is core to our values and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to be named a best place to work for LGBTQ Equality earning top marks in the 2021 Corporate Equality Index for the second consecutive year. Axioms legal department is Mansfield certified and is committed to considering at least 50% diverse candidates for leadership roles and outside counsel representation.

Learn more about working at Axiom.

Equal Opportunity Employer:Axiom ensures equal employment opportunity in recruitment and employment without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race color nationality national or ethnic origin religious creed or belief political opinion sex gender reassignment pregnancy or maternity age disability alienage or citizenship status marital (or civil or other partnership recognized by law) status genetic predisposition or carrier status sexual orientation military service or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Axiom prohibits and will not tolerate any such discrimination or harassment.

Axiom will accommodate persons with disabilities in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and in accordance with the Human Rights Code. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities can be provided at each stage of the recruitment process. If you have a disability and require accommodation to complete the application form please contact us at . In addition if you are invited to participate in an interview stage please inform us if you require special accommodation at the time of your invitation for an interview.

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