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LOD, A Consilio Company is a global pioneer in the legal services industry. We’ve transformed the way in which lawyers, consultants and legal teams work.

Our people are at the heart of what we do by creating different and better ways of working for both lawyers and legal teams.

LOD is on a major growth curve as we expand our client base, our geographies, and the scope of our services. We’re looking to maintain this positive momentum by recruiting additional lawyers to work across our multi sector client base.

We are looking for a strong commercial lawyer to take on the role of Tean Lead Lawyer (India). As well as supporting our multi-sector clients, , including global household name brands, to review, draft, negotiate and complete their commercial contracts, you will also line manage a other LOD Managed Teams lawyers in the region. You will work closely with the existing global managed team lawyer pool and delivery mangers based in South Africa and the United Kingdom.

You will have management experience, specifically managing lawyers providing commercial legal support to multiple clients. As a practicing lawyer yourself, you will be skilled at contract review in a fast paced environment and will have excellent drafting and communication skills in order to provide practical, in-house focused advice for our clients and guidance for your team. You will also have excellent interpersonal skills as you will be client and client counterparty facing.

This is a great opportunity to be part of our global expansion, and a team with a mission to improve the way law is done for our clients and lawyers worldwide.

Responsibilities

Managing a team of legal professionals (paralegals and lawyers), initially this will involve onboarding

Overseeing allocation of incoming work to optimise utilisation of the team

Undertaking contract review work as well as supporting your team on more complex matters

Ensuring that matters are turned around in a timely manner so key performance indicators and service level agreements are met

Ensuring client-facing data and reporting is kept up to date

Guaranteeing know-how is captured and knowledge of the team is kept up to date

Recognising points for improvement within processes and systems and putting in place

plans to improve things (on both internal and client processes).

Contract review and negotiation as required

Your Approach

Confident providing accurate support in an often-fast paced environment.

Pro-active approach and can-do attitude.

Can quickly gain credibility and respect from our clients.

Emotional intelligence to assess any situation and confidence to use initiative.

Strong communication skills to ensure team members understand the task at hand and client expectations are managed.

Willingness to take ownership and see a task and project through from start to completion.

Innovative and motivated responses to problem-solving, taking ownership when they arise.

Qualifications

Legally qualified

Contract review (with experience of reviewing commercial contracts, including MSAs, SOWs, SaaS agreements, technology agreements, NDAs and other common commercial agreements, under UK/ US jurisdiction) and management experience.

7+ years’ post qualified experience with the majority of that experience being undertaken within industry.

Intermediate to advanced computer skills in MS Office application.

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EmploymentType: Contract
JobType: On-site

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