Job Description

Legal Operations Consultant - Melbourne or Sydney

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Most legal operations roles put you inside one legal function. This one puts you across many. You will work with in-house legal teams on how their function actually runs: the operating model, the processes, the resourcing, and the technology and AI sitting underneath it.

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The client is a global law firm with a substantial Australian practice, hiring into its legal operations advisory team.

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The essentials

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- Permanent, full time
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- Hybrid, 3 days a week in the office
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What you'll do

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- Deliver legal operations projects end to end as part of multidisciplinary teams
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- Analyse how a client's legal function works today and where the friction sits
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- Help design and facilitate workshops that turn complex ideas into something a client can act on
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- Apply legal engineering principles to translate legal and business requirements into working digital solutions
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- Build client-facing material, from the underlying analysis through to the recommendations




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- Support client relationships and contribute to proposals and pitches
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What you'll need

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- Legal operations or legal transformation experience, with hands‐on delivery on client projects
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- Exposure to legal operating model design, process improvement or resourcing strategy
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- A working grasp of the legal technology and AI landscape
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- Data analysis and visualisation
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- Explicit communication with both legal and business stakeholders
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Nice to have

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- Legal engineering experience, designing or implementing technology‐enabled solutions
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- Change management or design thinking training
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- A consulting or professional services background
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What's in it for you

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- Structured learning, mentoring and on‐the‐job development
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- Wellbeing fund and home office allowance
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- Mental health support
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📌 Legal Operations Consultant (New South Wales)
🏢 APT Search
📍 New South Wales