Legal Operations Manager (In-House)
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We are actively seeking a Senior Legal Operations Project Manager experienced with firm/vendor integration, onboarding, and legal spend management. This is a hybrid role in-house opportunity with our 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 Legal Operations Project Manager located in the Greater Houston, TX area with the following qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience in Legal Operations focused projects related to firm/vendor integration, onboarding, and legal spend management.
• Experience working in an in-house legal or related environment.
• PMP/PMI certification not required but preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in a business, legal studies, or technical field preferred.
• Willing to work hybrid schedule requiring two-three days onsite in Houston-based office.
• 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 corporate client on the following:

• Responsible for engaging a multitude of stakeholders in and outside of legal department to formulate and drive the execution of cutting edge technical solutions to an array of emerging challanges.
• Collaborate with legal subject matter experts, engineering teams, third party vendors, and cross-functional partners to provide tools and processes that will increase efficiency and improve the productivity of users in our Legal department and the business teams they work with.
• Manage operational processes to maintain and support legal systems and tools, including workflow automation, contract management, ebilling, knowledge management, and document management.
• Establish deep substantive understanding of processes and programs for groups within the legal department, including but not limited to outside counsel engagement, workflow automation, legal risk, and privacy compliance.
• Work with legal stakeholders to review manual operations with an eye towards optimization.
• Build internal customer and stakeholders' relationships to manage expectations and agree on clear goals, objectives, and timelines.
• Build and track project features, milestones, and dependencies.

Benefits

• Flexible hybrid schedule
• 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.