Legal Operations Professional

About the Role

Axiom is seeking several highly skilled Legal Operations Professionals to work with diverse clients across all industries. This role focuses on enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of legal departments through strategic initiatives and operational excellence.

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, and corporate governance.

Strategic Planning and Budget Management

Develop and manage the legal department's budget, ensuring efficient allocation of resources. Implement strategic planning initiatives to support the legal team’s objectives and improve overall departmental performance. Negotiate rates and fee structures with outside counsel to ensure competitive and cost-effective arrangements. This includes benchmarking analysis with peer firms and presenting financial impact findings to senior management. Oversee the creation of formal confirmations of rate agreements with law 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.

About Axiom

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 today’s business landscape with best in breed alternative legal services.

Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Engagement

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. Axiom’s 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 toronto@axiomlaw.com. 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.

Privacy Notice & Application Acknowledgement

Axiom respects your privacy. For an explanation of the kind of information we collect about you and how it is used, our full privacy notice is available at https://www.axiomlaw.com/privacy-notice. Employment with Axiom may be contingent upon successful completion of a background check, providing proof of identity, and possessing the necessary legal authorization to work. By submitting an application, you acknowledge that all information contained therein, and provided at any part of the application process, is correct and accurate to the best of your knowledge.

Key skills/competency

• Legal Operations
• Process Optimization
• Legal Technology
• Compliance Management
• Risk Mitigation
• Budget Management
• Vendor Management
• Contract Management
• Data Analytics
• Project Management