Legal Counsel

Legatics

Legal Counsel managing internal legal function while negotiating SaaS contracts and maintaining compliance programs for a LegalTech scale-up. Working closely with commercial teams and ensuring accurate legal operations.

Posted 6/16/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Negotiating SaaS contract with new customers, in line with playbook positions
Coordinating the administration of customer contract processes: first-draft prep, filing, checks and post-signature filing
Maintaining our customer contracts summary matrix, playbooks and templates so they stay accurate and current
Supporting renewal preparation, negotiation and tracking, flagging upcoming dates and gathering the inputs needed
Helping complete customer due diligence questions (e.g. privacy and data protection sections of infosec questionnaires), working with the Product and Infosec team where needed
Running and maintaining our supply chain risk management process, supporting supplier onboarding, approval and annual checks
Keeping data protection records up to date, including records of processing and changes in supplier usage
Running the GDPR compliance program: ROPA upkeep, supporting DPIAs and related assessments, and preparing for compliance group meetings
Acting as first-line legal support across departments (Finance, Operations, Commercial, Marketing, People), resolving queries and routing anything that needs additional input to other stakeholders or external advisers

Requirements

What you’ll need

Either a qualified lawyer early in their career (newly qualified up to around 3 years PQE) or a legal operations or paralegal professional with strong relevant experience
A desire to explore and understand what the business needs, and effect solutions that provide for those needs proactively
Excellent written and oral communication, with the ability to explain process and rationale clearly to non-legal colleagues
Strong attention to detail and a genuine enjoyment of accurate, well-organized work
A pragmatic, solutions-focused attitude and comfort working independently in an unstructured environment
An interest in data protection, compliance and legal operations, and a willingness to learn across new areas
Confidence using software and an interest in how technology and AI can improve legal workflows
A right to work in the UK (we are not able to support visa sponsorship at this stage)
Ability to work from our offices based in Temple, twice a week

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary (depending on experience)
25 days holiday per year (plus public holidays).
Early Finish Fridays - on the last Friday of every month, we finish at lunchtime!
Pension with NEST.
Personal Learning & Development budget.
Enhanced parental leave policies so you can spend more time with your family.
Lots of opportunities for accelerated professional development and career progression.
Work alongside a supportive and talented team with the opportunity to grow one of the world’s leading LegalTech scale-ups.
A warm, genuinely collaborative culture and an awesome team; and
Regular socials.

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Hard Skills & Tools

contract negotiationcustomer contract administrationdue diligenceGDPR compliancedata protectionsupply chain risk managementlegal operationsprivacy complianceDPIA assessmentslegal support

Soft Skills

written communicationoral communicationattention to detailproblem-solvingindependent workorganizational skillsproactive attitudeadaptabilitycollaborationcritical thinking

Certifications

qualified lawyerparalegal certification