Legal Business Services - Senior Consultant - Legal Operations
Deloitte Discovery's Legal Business Services (LBS) teams provide a comprehensive suite of legal management consulting, information governance, contract lifecycle management, and technology-enabled services to our clients. Our professionals bring domain knowledge, industry experience, and technology capabilities to provide strategic, proactive approaches to support the future of legal departments and related functions.
Deloitte Discovery's U.S. operations is comprised of the following services:
Legal Business Services
Data Remediation
eDiscovery Services
Work you'll do
As a Legal Operations Senior Consultant in Legal Business Services, you will work with a team of experienced professionals supporting Deloitte's suite of services driving transformation and modernization of corporate legal and compliance departments and/or corporate legal operations programs. You will contribute directly to delivering first class consultative services to our clients, and your support of the engagement lifecycle will include engagement leadership, sales and pursuit support, eminence, legal management consulting, legal process assessment, solution design, service delivery, and coaching and mentoring junior practitioners.
Additional responsibilities may include:
Contribute to pursuit presentations and presentation materials
Provide subject matter expertise on pursuits and proofs of concept
Meaningfully participate in or lead the creation of thought leadership content
Lead meetings with client stakeholders
Help identify, design, and implement creative solutions to client challenges
Participate in setting engagement objectives
Develop project plans for workstreams or components of an engagement
Conduct detailed analyses to draw conclusions and develop insightful recommendations
Produce high-quality client deliverables and executive-level presentations under tight deadlines
Participate in presentation of findings to senior client stakeholders
Develop and maintain working relationships with client stakeholders
Provide mentorship and guidance to junior practitioners
Qualifications
4+ years of professional experience, including 2+ years of demonstrated experience supporting legal or compliance departments within organizations
History of successful project management including program design, identification of opportunities and developing implementation plans
Demonstrated ability to problem solve and bring new ideas and insight
Experience leading client meetings and presentations without significant oversight
Strong sales focused communication skills including visual presentations
Hands on experience with leading technology across legal focus areas such as: Matter Management, Service Delivery, Intellectual Property, Entity Management, Compliance and Regulatory and Contract Management
Experience with MS Office Suite. Experience with SQL and/or Tableau is strongly preferred
Basic understanding of corporate business operations and functional business processes
Strong core consulting skills, including agility, innovation, and teaming
Experience directly leading workstreams or small teams within the context of a larger project
Experience establishing and managing priorities and delegation of tasks
Ability to work independently, on small teams, or on workstreams supporting larger projects
Ability to work in an ambiguous environment
Passion to learn, grow professionally, and share knowledge
Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
Travel up to 50% (While the ability to travel up to 50% is a requirement of the role, due to COVID-19, non-essential travel has been suspended until further notice)
Bachelor's degree required
Preferred
JD, MBA, or Master's degree in Law, Leadership, Organizational Management, or Data Science
Project Management Professional (PMP), Lean Six Sigma, or other similar certification
Prior consulting experience
Experience in legal operations, information governance, records management, contract lifecycle management, or data disposition
Experience with manipulating large data sets and database concepts