The Legal Operations Specialist will play a vital role in supporting the legal team by handling various operational tasks, facilitating vendor relationships, and supporting workflow and knowledge sharing. This position requires a meticulous individual with strong organizational and communication skills, a proactive approach, and a passion for continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as a liaison for existing legal vendors, facilitate vendor relationships by running the RFP process, onboarding new vendors, and interpreting and negotiating basic contract terms.
- Serve as back up and general support for law firm management program which includes, onboarding new law firms, using Persuit for bids, reviewing invoices, and remediating billing issues.
- Analyze billing practices, scrutinize invoices, and support quarter and year-end reporting.
- Use advanced data functions (e.g., pivots, vlookups, formulas) and AI tools to build reports, dashboards, and perform data analysis.
- Lead all aspects of onboarding new legal team members, including tech requests, location set up, calendaring, org chart updates, and DL management.
- Develop and implement standardized processes and procedures for routine legal tasks, finding opportunities for workflow automation.
- Develop and manage department intranet site pages, SharePoint sites, and Google workspaces, seeking to develop improved ways to capture and share information related to the department.
- Manage ad hoc projects as assigned, ensuring timely completion and high-quality results.
Qualifications:
- 4+ years experience in legal operations, with preference for in-house experience.
- Solid understanding of legal services, law firm operations, and the legal industry landscape.
- Familiarity with AI in the legal realm and a champion for same.
- General experience managing procurement processes.
- Proficiency in Google Workspace and SharePoint site management.
- Experience with e-billing systems, most preferably Onit and general supplier contract negotiation.
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously and meet deadlines.
- Passion for taking on increasing responsibility and more substantive work over time.
The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:
$60,000 - $101,500