Legal Operations Manager

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About the role

  • Legal Operations Manager scaling legal systems, processes, and vendor operations for Caseware’s global audit and accounting software business. Supporting a four-lawyer in-house team from Toronto.

Responsibilities

  • Administer and continuously improve the contract lifecycle management platform, e-signature tools, and matter management systems
  • Design, document, and maintain workflows for contract intake, review routing, approvals, and escalations
  • Drive adoption of legal technology systems across the business
  • Manage relationships and budgets with outside counsel and legal vendors, including negotiating rates, tracking spend, and reviewing invoices
  • Maintain the legal department budget and prepare spend and matter-volume reports
  • Build dashboards and metrics demonstrating the legal team’s business impact
  • Support the end-to-end contract process, including templates, playbooks, clause libraries, and self-serve tools
  • Maintain corporate records for all legal entities and handle statutory and annual filings
  • Ensure corporate compliance in all jurisdictions and respond independently to UBO and KYC requests
  • Design and maintain the department’s internal knowledge base, training materials, and onboarding resources
  • Identify gaps and design process improvements
  • Lead legal technology implementations and use of AI where appropriate
  • Maintain accurate, organized, and accessible legal documents and records
  • Provide support to lawyers and other stakeholders
  • Serve as the operational backbone of the in-house legal department, reporting directly to the General Counsel

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in business, legal studies, or a related field; a paralegal diploma or equivalent experience is an asset
  • 3–7 years of experience in legal operations, paralegal work, or a similar operational role
  • In-house legal team or law firm operations background strongly preferred
  • Hands-on experience implementing and using CLM and e-signature tools and other legal technology, including AI
  • Strong project management skills and ability to independently prioritize multiple concurrent initiatives
  • Experience managing budgets, vendor relationships, and outside counsel spend and invoicing
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • High degree of discretion and judgment when handling confidential and sensitive information
  • Experience building a legal operations function from the ground up in a small legal department is an asset
  • Exposure to data analytics or BI tools such as Power BI and Tableau is an asset
  • Successful candidates must complete a background check; candidates residing in the Netherlands and Germany are excluded from Certn.co background checks

Benefits

  • Flexible work options and remote opportunities
  • Generous time-off policies
  • Health insurance
  • Retirement plans
  • Performance bonuses
  • Recognition programs
  • Opportunities for career growth
  • International projects
  • Collaboration with a diverse, global team

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

Tableau

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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