Legal Engineer

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Job Title

Legal Engineer

Department

IT - Legal Engineering

Office Location

Paris or London

Reports To

Senior Manager, IT – Legal Engineering

Working Hours

35 hours per week, 9:30am to 5:30pm but additional hours may be required.  We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns.  Our approach to hybrid working allows for up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the office, please contact a member of the recruitment team to discuss further.

Firm Description

Hogan Lovells is one of the leading global law firms.  Our distinctive market position is founded on our exceptional breadth of our practice, on deep industry knowledge, and on our 'one team' global approach.  Formed through the combination of two top international law firms, Hogan Lovells has over 40 offices in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. 

With a presence in the world's major financial and commercial markets, we are well placed to provide excellent business-oriented advice to our clients locally and internationally.  Our people are the key to our success, which is why we seek to recruit and retain the most talented individuals in all regions of our global practice.

Department Description

The Legal Engineering team operate within the IT department.  The team is responsible for developing, and maintaining custom-made coding solutions for the firms’ clients and lawyers.  The team primarily build solutions using Contract Express, UiPath, and BRYTER but also integrate apps with other systems. These projects are critical in enabling our legal professionals to best leverage the full breadth of the firm’s global capabilities in service to our clients.

Role Overview

The Legal Engineer will support the team with managing the life cycle and delivery of custom-made coding solutions and related legal technology projects. The role will provide first line support to our lawyers, clients and gain exposure to a variety legal technology including Contract Express, UiPath, and HighQ Collaborate. There will also be the opportunity to trial new products.

Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities

• Work closely with legal subject matter experts to code legal documents written in various languages (notably, German, English, French, Spanish, and Italian) using Contract Express.

• Develop bespoke coding solutions for specific legal projects and cases (specifically Contract Express, HighQ, BRYTER, and UiPath).

• Maintain and update coding in existing documents and custom-made automations.

• Provide user training and induction sessions.

• Manage client sites including configuring new sites, user access and adhere to the firm’s data retention policies.

• Maintain and update user guides.

• Assist with testing new software features and upgrades.

Specific duties or responsibilities may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changes in personnel and management structure, staff location or services.

All members of the firm participate in our Responsible Business program.

Person Specific

Qualifications and Training

• A solid legal background (lawyer’s degree in any jurisdiction, paralegal, legal specialist, previous work experience at a law firm).

• Experience and knowledge of working with legal documents (drafting, editing, updating, and formatting).

• Advanced language skills, especially in German, and English. Must be proficient in both reading and writing. French, Italian, or Spanish desirable. 

• A good knowledge of Contract Express coding language, BRYTER, UiPath, any experience with any automation or logic-based systems desirable – if no experience, full training will be provided.

• A strong working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Microsoft Outlook.

General Attributes

• Clear logical thinking and highly focused attention to details.

• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.

• Able to demonstrate the ability to learn new concepts and new products.

• Have an interest in the future direction of legal technology and technology in general.

• Client, delivery and deadline focused.

• Excellent attention to detail and delivery of high-quality work.

• Self-management and excellent organisation skills.

• Highly effective as part of a wider team.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

• A self-starter with a proactive approach to work, planning workload and solving client requirements.

Agile Working Statement

Our goal is to embed flexibility across our business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.

Equal Opportunities Employment Statement

It is the policy of Hogan Lovells to provide equal opportunities for all employees in relation to recruitment, training and promotion.  Decisions in these areas will be made only by reference to the requirements of the job and shall not be influenced by any consideration of racial or ethnic origin, religion, sex , gender and gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital and civil partnership status, pregnancy or disability.