By joining the Epiq Counsel Waitlist Roster of elite legal talent, you will be considered for future in-house engagements aligned with your expertise and preferences. Leverage our network to bridge the gap between your skills and organizations in need of top-tier legal services. Take the next step in your legal career and join a vibrant community of Epiq legal professionals!

Introduction

Epiq Counsel is an innovative legal services talent provider that offers meaningful in-house legal work and flexibility to sophisticated and credentialed lawyers and legal professionals. Our lawyers and legal professionals work on a wide variety of matters for Fortune 500 clients. 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 professionals practice areas, experience, and preferences to ensure they are presented with compelling engagement opportunities with leading law departments across the globe.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for in-house legal matters including drafting agreements, addressing compliance issues, and participating in negotiation discussions. In order to succeed, this candidate should feel comfortable working with in-house and outside counsels on a variety of legal matters.





This is for a 6 month secondment term with a potential to extend.

Key responsibilities

- Draft, review and negotiate technology contracts, including Master Services Agreements, License Agreements, Reseller Agreements and Statements of Work.
- Advise on key contractual terms, including scope of services, pricing, risk allocation, liability, termination and intellectual property.
- Negotiate provisions addressing data privacy, information security and the use of AI.
- Advise stakeholders on technology law issues, including privacy, data security, generative AI and agentic AI, in complex and time-sensitive transactions.
- Prepare legal risk memoranda and provide practical recommendations to support informed commercial decisions.
- Work closely with business stakeholders to progress transactions while appropriately managing legal risk.

About you
- Qualified lawyer with 5–8 years’ PQE. Common law qualification preferred.
- Solid technology contracting experience gained in private practice, in-house or a combination of both.
- Demonstrated experience negotiating agreements with IT suppliers and technology vendors.
- A sound understanding of intellectual property, privacy, data security and contractual risk allocation.
- Clear communication skills, commercial judgement and the ability to manage competing priorities

📌 Legal Counsel - Technology (Sydney)
🏢 Epiq Counsel
📍 Sydney