Legal Operations Professional

Epiq Counsel is rapidly growing in the UK and we are looking for legal operations professionals to service our growing client demand for this skillset. By joining the Epiq Counsel roster, you will be considered for future in-house engagements aligned with your expertise and preferences.

About Epiq Counsel: Epiq Counsel is an innovative legal services talent provider that offers meaningful work and flexibility to sophisticated and credentialed lawyers and legal professionals. Our lawyers work on a wide variety of legal matters for Fortune 500 clients across all practice areas. Epiq works hard to provide our diverse legal talent with challenging work for sophisticated clients that does not require sacrificing flexibility or control.

Epiq Counsel takes the time and attention to understand each lawyer’s practice areas, experience, and preferences to ensure they are presented with sophisticated interim in-house opportunities with leading law departments across the globe. Leverage our network to work for organisations in need of top-tier legal services. Take the next step in your legal career and join a vibrant community of Epiq legal professionals!

We are actively seeking Legal Operations professionals with the following qualifications to join our team:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience working within a corporate law or consulting company on projects and ongoing tasks related to legal technology implementations, spend management, budgeting, and operational metrics that aid you in understanding the needs of the in-house law department. Substantive time leading in a similar role is a plus.
• Experience designing and implementing technology, documentation, reports, and related work throughout a project lifecycle and ensuring that assigned duties and responsibilities/project results are completed.
• Experience creating and managing a law department budget and RFP process, a plus.
• Strong understanding of legal processes, technology, and vendor management.
• Strong experience in researching, implementing and using legal department technology tools (or similar), such as records management and e-billing.
• Proficiency in using legal technology tools and software (e.g., matter management, e-billing, document management systems).
• Excellent project management skills with a proven track record of successfully leading and completing projects.
• Demonstrated abilities in operational excellence, to independently and collaboratively track and move projects forward while adapting to changing priorities.
• Excellent verbal, written communication and interpersonal skills with internal collaborators, outside vendors, and other parties.
• Undergraduate degree required.

Epiq Counsel partners with industry-leading clients in support of their sophisticated interim talent needs. Must be interested in practicing in an alternative, fixed-term services model.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Law degree a plus but not a must have.
• Prince II, Lean Six Sigma, or other relevant project management certification(s) a plus.

Support our clients with the following responsibilities:

• Dynamic project work that varies in length and is conducted remotely or on-site depending on client needs.
• Variable hours in a consultancy role; commitment may range from part-time to full-time based on project requirements.
• Drive and influence implementation of processes and technologies that enable operational efficiency on foundational matters like intake, contracting, task tracking, knowledge and records management, and other critical needs to run the business of the department (e.g., vendor/firm relationships, billing, change management, program management, etc.)
• Assist with the design, development, and testing of innovative products, services, and experiences required to advance the operations of an in-house law department.
• Develop and optimize tools for tracking team initiatives and goals.
• Identify measures of successful adoption, utilization, proficiency, and risk mitigation.
• Lead and support cross-functional projects and initiatives.

Benefits: Dynamic project work varies in length and is conducted remotely or on-site depending on client needs. Compensation commensurate with experience and complexity of engagement, together with engagement support and coaching. We offer market beating benefits in the alternative legal services space, including: 25 days holiday + bank holidays, pension and comprehensive healthcare.

The Epiq Counsel team strives to respond to all applications; however due to the volume of applicants, we cannot always respond to every application.