We are actively seeking a Director of Legal Operations for a full-time opportunity with our major Financial Services client! This role has strong potential for conversion into a permanent in-house role with the client.
Introduction
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 matters for Fortune 500 clients, such as complex licensing agreements, intellectual property, employment counseling, compliance policy creation, and M&A transactions. 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 compelling engagement opportunities with leading law departments across the globe.
We are actively seeking a Director of Legal Operations located in the Phoenix area with the following qualifications:
- At least 8+ years of experience in legal operations, with a proven track record of establishing and managing a legal operations function.
- Substantive experience developing and implementing a comprehensive legal operations strategy, including but not limited to; Defining and documenting processes, policies, and procedures to streamline legal operations; Creating a framework for legal project management and workflow automation; Developing and managing the legal department budget.
- Experience in budget management and financial analysis.
- Substantive understanding of legal technology solutions and their implementation.
- Excellent project management and process improvement skills.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and develop a team.
- Willingness to support a hybrid role requiring three days onsite in Phoenix-based office.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Law, or a related field. Advanced degree (e.g., JD, MBA) preferred.
- PMP, CAPM, or other relevant project management certification(s) a plus.
- 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 legal services model.
Support our client with the following Legal Operations responsibilities:
- Work closely with the General Counsel and other senior leadership to ensure legal operations are aligned with corporate goals and objectives.
- Create a framework for legal project management and workflow automation.
- Implement efficient and effective legal operations procedures to support the legal department and the broader organization.
- Continuously assess and improve legal processes to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
- Define and document processes, policies, and procedures to streamline legal operations.
- Develop and oversee compliance programs and policies.
Benefits:
- Contract to permanent opportunity.
- Hybrid, flexible role.
- Compensation commensurate with experience and complexity of engagement
- 401(k) with company match
- PTO and paid federal holidays
- Optional medical coverage; HSA Account; Wellness Program
- Employee Assistance Program
- Pre-tax Commuter Benefits (as applicable)
- Access to professional development resources and learning and development programs.
Should your experience meet the role requirements, the Epiq Counsel team will contact you. The Epiq Counsel team strives to respond to all applications; however due to the volume of applicants, we cannot always respond to every application.
It is Epiq’s policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual’s race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. Epiq’s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. Epiq is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. Pursuant to relevant law, where applicable, Epiq will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
