Newly created role! A US law firm requires a Senior Practice Technology Analyst for their rapidly expanding London office. The Senior Practice Technology Analyst will serve as a knowledge ambassador and will be responsible for providing legal teams with technical advice, expertise, and support in connection to practice management technologies. If you are looking for a blank canvas and to create something from scratch then this role is for you!
Main responsibilities will include:
- Administer, support and monitor:
document automation/assembly solutions,
contract review and drafting platforms,
electronic deal closing applications,
applications to manage Funds subscription documents,
documents extraction solutions to obtain valuable business information
- Create and customized data / deal rooms utilizing the HighQ platform and provide training and ongoing support
- Support and assist with coordinating training programs for attorney adoption of practice innovation technologies
- Champion practice innovation and technology tools
- Support the Firm’s knowledge resource systems including the intranet, knowledge bank and experience management solution
- Liaise between the legal teams, vendors and other Firm support teams to ensure support of practice-specific systems
- Support the Firm’s Document Management System (DMS) and advise on best practices
- Act as an extension of other groups in the Knowledge Department, including Innovation, KM and Data for localized projects
- Serve as a resource for the Firm’s Enterprise Search system
- Assist legal teams with e-discovery / e-disclosure vendors
- Alert legal teams on issues to consider in connection with cross-border data use and transfer
- Provide or facilitate end-user training for practice-specific solutions
- Design training material and prepare systems documentation
To be considered for this role you will need the following skills and experience:
- Bachelor’s degree is required
- Minimum of five years of relevant experience
- Ability to anticipate problems, gather information, analyze and make recommendations
- Build and maintain relationships (and collaborate) with key managers
- Experience mentoring peers
- Familiarity with all phases of discovery in litigation
- Ability to effectively present information verbally and in writing
- Ability to maintain strict confidentiality at all times
- Work effectively across work groups and assist in the coordination of information and take leadership when appropriate
- Experience working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
- Project management skills with ability to multi-task among multiple time-sensitive matters
- Adapt well to changing priorities
- Strong vendor engagement and management skills
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Ability to respond to situations as they arise with minimal supervision
- Working knowledge of HighQ and other market leading legal software strongly preferred
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Teams
- Strong technical skills and a willingness to learn new technology
- Power BI design skills preferred