Legal Counsel IP/IT

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Bois-Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France
Information Technology • Software
The Role

Our business unit Legal Software is serving legal professionals in law firms, general counsel offices and corporate legal departments with data-driven decision-making tools. We streamline legal and regulatory research, analysis, and workflows to drive value to organizations, ensuring more transparent, just and safe societies.

Key responsibilities

  • Draft, review, and negotiate various types of IT contracts with customers, vendors and partners : confidentiality agreements, software license and maintenance agreements, SaaS/cloud contracts, service agreements, partnerships, etc.

  • Assist commercial teams with RFPs and responses to public and private tenders.

  • Monitor the execution of ongoing contracts (amendments, pre-litigation management)

  • Maintain and improve standard form of agreements and playbooks

  • Act as the point of contact for personal data protection: coordinate compliance and remediation actions with the organization’s Privacy correspondents, conduct awareness-raising activities within the BU for sales, marketing, and product compliance teams.

  • Participate in updating documentation related to personal data protection: internal policies and procedures, information notices, websites, registries.

  • Draft and negotiate Data Processing Agreements with subprocessors and clients.

  • Collaborate with internal teams, including group lawyers, to provide advice on all general legal matters in daily activities related to personal data protection and IP asset management (trademarks, software).

  • Monitor relevant legislative and regulatory developments

Profile

  • Law degree (master of Law) : international contract, IT, data, privacy

  • You have a proven experience (4-7 years) in a B to B environment

  • You are familiar with software and technology products and industries, including SaaS and on-premise offerings

  • You have experience of advising on data protection issues

  • You have excellent communication skills and are fluent in French with a very good level in English (verbal and written skills)

  • You are able to communicate effectively across business units and build strong relationships across countries with your stakeholders

  • You have a pragmatic approach and act as a true business partner

  • You have ability to collaborate and work closely with other colleagues as part of a team locally and remotely and with stakeholders with diverse cultural backgrounds.

The Company
Hagerstown, MD
18,996 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

Wolters Kluwer (www.wolterskluwer.com) is a global leader in information services and solutions for professionals in the health, tax and accounting, risk and compliance, finance and legal sectors. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with specialized technology and services.

Founded in 1836 and headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands, the company serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries and employs 18,600 people worldwide.

Wolters Kluwer reported 2019 annual revenues of €4.6 billion. Listed on Euronext Amsterdam, Wolters Kluwer shares (WKL) are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices. Wolters Kluwer has a sponsored Level 1 American Depositary Receipt program. The ADRs are traded on the over-the-counter market in the U.S. (WTKWY).

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