Job Description

About us

At Legora, we’re on a mission to transform the way lawyers work. Our AI-native platform lets legal professionals enhance their productivity and automate complex workflows. We collaborate closely with our clients and iterate at a market-leading pace. In a year, we have gone from an early MVP to tools used daily by thousands of lawyers, and are now scaling rapidly. We are here to win together with our team and clients, and carry the belief that life is too short not to accomplish something truly special.

You are joining an early-stage scale-up with exceptional product-market fit, trusted by global leaders like Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin and Bird & Bird. Backed by over $110M in funding from top investors including ICONIQ, General Catalyst, Benchmark, Redpoint, and Y Combinator. And a world-class team from Google, Klarna, Spotify, Slack, and top tier consulting and law firms with infinite room to grow professionally.

The role

As a Legal Counsel at Legora's New York office, you’ll be at the centre of the legal tech revolution , playing a pivotal role in extending our legal team to the US market and ensuring legal compliance, mitigating risks and supporting our dynamic business operations. You will support our commercial and product teams on a broad range of topics. This role will focus primarily on commercial contract drafting and negotiation, requiring independence and flexibility to work across different time zones. You will report to the Head of Legal based in our Stockholm headquarters. The Legora legal function operates across a wide range of legal disciplines as well as jurisdictions and plays a key role as a partner to all teams with a focus on product development, operations, and commercial projects. Beyond your legal expertise, you should also be able to innovate, solve problems and proactively look for solutions in our challenging mission to revolutionize legal work worldwide.

What you will be doing:

• Work closely with the senior stakeholders in our operational, commercial and product teams on strategic as well as day-to-day legal matters, including with new products and services, processes, contracts, partnerships, and supply chains.
• Draft and negotiate commercial contracts.
• Review product designs, data flows, and processes and help balancing risks.
• Actively assess and address privacy risks, ensuring alignment with applicable data protection regulations; and
• Help building efficient and scalable processes to meet legal and regulatory requirements and drafting policies and guidelines to help teams proactively design and build requirements into products and processes.

Who you are

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an accredited law school and qualified to practice law as in-house counsel in the State of New York.
  
• 5+ years of experience at a top-tier law firm and/or as an in-house legal counsel.
  
• Strong experience negotiating B2B SaaS agreements and supporting commercial teams. You’re an excellent negotiator.
  
• Strong legal judgment and confidence in making decisions independently.
  
• Experience in handling corporate matters and drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements.
  
• Experience with data privacy matters, IT security and/or corporate law is meritorious.
  
• Your focus is on achieving meaningful business outcomes, translating into actionable advice delivered clearly and comprehensively.
  
• You thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic entrepreneurial environment and rapidly evolving business setting. You take initiative and are committed to delivering high-quality results. You are comfortable working independently and can effectively manage work across different time zones.
  
• You are excited about the potential of technology to transform the legal industry. You have a keen interest in AI and legal tech, and you are eager to learn and apply these tools in real-world settings.
  

What's in it for you

• Competitive base salary
• Generous stock option program
• Health Insurance & 401k Match
• An office in downtown NYC. Designed as a space for you to do your life’s work.

Job Tags

Contract work, Work at office, Worldwide,

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