Associate - Legal Operations

Job Description:

Responsibilities

• Coordinate legal intake, routing, and tracking processes to help ensure timely responses and visibility across the legal team's work
• Support the legal conflict check process by gathering information, maintaining documentation, and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders
• Administer contract workflows, including intake, template selection, version control, signature tracking, file management, and status reporting
• Maintain legal templates, playbooks, trackers, and standard operating procedures in partnership with internal counsel
• Coordinate compliance related requests, including KYC, due diligence, entity registration, licensing, and other vendor or client driven requirements
• Maintain corporate records, legal entity information, and organized repositories for key legal and compliance documents
• Support litigation and claims administration, including document collection, legal hold coordination, subpoena support, and insurance reporting logistics
• Partner with Finance on client payment related communications and other administrative legal support needs
• Coordinate with Human Resources and Talent Acquisition on offer letter, employment agreement, and onboarding related documentation workflows
• Track outside counsel matters, invoices, budgets, and reporting as needed
• Help evaluate and improve legal processes, tools, and reporting to increase efficiency, consistency, and service levels
• Prepare summaries, status updates, and operational reporting for legal leadership and key internal stakeholders

Qualification & Expeirence

• Bachelor’s degree required; paralegal certification, compliance certification, or similar relevant training preferred
• 3+ years of relevant experience in legal operations, contracts administration, compliance, paralegal, or similar legal support roles
• Experience supporting an in-house legal team, law firm, consulting firm, or other professional or technology services business strongly preferred
• Experience working with contract lifecycle management, legal intake, compliance tracking, entity management, document management, or similar legal operations processes preferred
• Experience supporting legal and compliance matters related to client engagements, vendor due diligence, KYC, licensing, registrations, or corporate governance preferred
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines at once