Jobs at Cognia Law

Manage legal projects end to end, including planning, scheduling, budgets, risks, issues, changes, reporting, stakeholder communication, team productivity, training, and closeout. Partner with clients to understand challenges and develop practical solutions. Support business development through scope definition, requirements identification, and solution documentation. Contribute to PMO process improvement, training, and internal projects while developing toward program or portfolio management responsibilities.

Reviews, drafts, and negotiates commercial agreements end-to-end, identifies legal and commercial risks, and proposes practical mitigations. Uses AI-enabled legal technology and CLM workflows to improve contracting efficiency. Supports project delivery by guiding junior team members, coordinating tasks, maintaining quality, managing stakeholders, and contributing to playbooks, remediation projects, and workflow improvements.

Reviews, drafts, negotiates, and manages commercial contracts for global corporate and financial institution clients. Identifies legal and commercial risks, supports contract abstraction, remediation, data capture, and administration, and contributes to financial documentation projects. Uses CLM, legal technology, and AI-enabled tools to improve legal delivery while collaborating with project managers, legal technologists, and stakeholders on high-volume projects.

A 12-month legal graduate programme providing hands-on experience with real client matters, due diligence, legal operations, and technology-enabled legal services. Participants receive structured training, mentorship, and exposure to legal technology, AI, innovation, and global clients while developing commercial, analytical, communication, and professional skills. Applicants must hold a law degree, have not completed articles, and demonstrate strong communication, teamwork, analytical, organizational, and technology skills.

A December 2026 vacation work programme for third- or fourth-year law students. Participants gain practical exposure to legal technology, commercial contract management, financial documentation, and legal project management while working with legal experts. The programme requires strong academics, communication, analytical thinking, adaptability, professionalism, and availability in Cape Town from 7–17 December 2026.

Supports legal technology and AI tool implementation, process mapping, workflow analysis, data reporting, and continuous improvement for internal teams and clients. The role creates process diagrams, reports, business case inputs, and stakeholder documentation while assisting with workshops, requirements gathering, solution design, troubleshooting, project administration, and knowledge sharing. It provides hands-on exposure to legal operations, legal technology, automation, and AI-enabled service delivery.