Legal Counsel

Clio is the global leader in legal AI technology, empowering legal professionals and law firms of every size to work smarter, faster, and more securely. 

We are transforming the legal experience for all by bettering the lives of legal professionals while increasing access to justice.

Summary:

Legal Counsel, EMEA
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Reports to: Senior Legal Counsel, EMEA
Working Model: Hybrid (2 days in office)

About Clio
Clio is a global leader in legal technology, trusted by tens of thousands of law firms and legal professionals worldwide. Our cloud-based platform transforms the way legal services are delivered — making law firms more efficient, more profitable, and better able to serve their clients. We are a high-growth, mission-driven technology company with a legal heritage at our core. That means lawyers are not peripheral to what we do — they are central to it. Our products are built for the legal profession, our customers are legal professionals, and our internal legal function operates at the intersection of commercial scale and legal complexity that few
technology companies can match.

Following a period of significant expansion — including the acquisition of vLex, a leading global legal research platform — our EMEA Legal team is growing. We are looking for a commercially minded lawyer who is ready to step into a role with genuine breadth, direct business impact, and
real opportunity to develop.

About the Role
Reporting to the Senior Legal Counsel, EMEA, you will play a key role in supporting the commercial and operational legal needs of the business across the EMEA region. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, independently managing a varied portfolio of commercial
matters while contributing to the development of scalable legal processes and infrastructure.
This is a role for a lawyer who is comfortable making progress where the facts, stakeholders, or precedent are not immediately clear. You will take ownership of identifying the issue, finding the relevant information and internal experts, assessing the available options, and providing a clear, commercially grounded recommendation. You will exercise sound
judgment about when to resolve an issue independently and when to escalate it.
This role will therefore appeal if you are seeking a position that broadens your commercial exposure and gives you a genuine seat at the table in a growing legal technology business. You will advise Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, Procurement, Security, and Operations directly. You
will be in the room (and on the call) where commercial decisions are made, and your advice will shape outcomes in real time.
Our legal function is scaling, and there is genuine opportunity to contribute to the tools, templates, playbooks, and processes that will support the business for years to come. Building legal infrastructure from the ground up is a portfolio differentiator. The frameworks we build
are intended to enable good, consistent decisions at scale; they do not remove the need for practical judgment, initiative, or effective collaboration in a changing environment.

Key Responsibilities
Commercial Contracting

- Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements, including NDAs, vendor and procurement contracts, DPAs, professional services agreements, and statements of work.
- Independently manage routine and mid-complexity contract negotiations, including by gathering the necessary commercial and operational context, developing a practical position, and escalating novel or high-risk issues with a clear analysis and recommended approach as appropriate.
- Support internal stakeholders in understanding contractual obligations and risk exposure in clear, practical, and commercially relevant terms.
- Assist in maintaining and improving contract templates, playbooks, and negotiation guidance, including the ongoing development of the contract repository and standard fallback positions.

- Assist with partner, reseller, and subcontractor agreement reviews and negotiations.
- Support Sales and the wider commercial team on enterprise deal execution, including review of customer-proposed terms, redlines to Clio’s standard agreements, and legal input on complex or high-value negotiations.
- Provide legal input and support on RFP and bid responses, including review of customer-proposed contractual requirements and legal questionnaires.
- Advise Sales and Customer Success on customer contractual queries, non-standard commercial requests, and escalated issues arising from enterprise accounts.

Business Partnership
- Act as a trusted legal partner to Sales and business teams across EMEA, providing commercial, pragmatic advice that supports deal execution while managing risk appropriately.
- Help manage legal intake, triage, and prioritisation across the EMEA region, making sound, transparent decisions when priorities compete or change.
- Partner with business owners to facilitate efficient and compliant deal execution by leading clear, constructive conversations; asking focused questions; and helping stakeholders understand the available options and recommended path forward.
- Support customer escalations involving legal and contractual issues, providing risk-based guidance to the business.

Privacy and Data Protection
- Review and negotiate data processing agreements and data protection terms across a range of commercial relationships.
- Support routine privacy and data protection enquiries, including queries relating to GDPR compliance.
- Assist with compliance initiatives across the group, including data subject requests and privacy reviews of new products or features.
- Support intragroup data transfer reviews and maintenance of data protection documentation.

Legal Operations and Process Improvement
- Contribute to the development of scalable legal processes, self-service tools, and knowledge management resources while recognising when a matter requires tailored analysis rather than a standard process.
- Support contract management workflows, including intake, execution tracking, and template maintenance.
- Identify opportunities to streamline legal workflows and improve the stakeholder experience.

Your Profile
- Qualified solicitor or lawyer with 3–5 years of post-qualification experience, from private practice or in-house.
- Demonstrated experience independently managing commercial contract negotiations and advising stakeholders on legal and commercial risk.
- Strong drafting and negotiation skills across a range of agreement types, including NDAs, enterprise subscription agreements, SaaS terms, technology contracts, procurement contracts, DPAs, and professional services agreements.
- Working knowledge of GDPR and data protection principles, with the ability to support practical compliance reviews.
- Ability to balance legal risk with commercial objectives and deliver pragmatic, timely advice.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to build productive working relationships across departments and stakeholders**, including the ability to communicate directly, clearly, and collegiately with stakeholders at different levels of the organisation.**
- Proven ability to manage a high volume of varied matters independently while maintaining attention to detail.
- Comfortable operating with autonomy in a fast-paced, evolving environment**, where priorities may shift, information may be incomplete, and not every issue will have an established precedent or a ready-made answer.**
- Demonstrated resourcefulness: able to identify what information is needed, seek it out from appropriate sources, connect with the right people, and move matters forward without requiring detailed instructions or close day-to-day direction.
- Comfortable working within scalable processes and playbooks, while applying judgment and adapting the approach where the circumstances require it.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience within a SaaS, technology, or high-growth commercial or in-house legal environment is desirable but not essential — we are as interested in aptitude, attitude, and the quality of your commercial thinking as we are in sector background.

What You'll Bring
- Sound commercial judgment and a practical approach to risk management.
- A customer-first mindset and genuine commitment to enabling business growth.
- Confidence working directly with stakeholders across multiple levels of the organisation.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities without losing quality or pace.

- Curiosity, adaptability, and a genuine appetite to keep developing**, including the confidence to investigate unfamiliar questions, form a view, and make a practical recommendation.**
- A continuous improvement mindset — an interest not just in doing the work, but in making the function better.
- A positive, collaborative working style: able to build trust with stakeholders, give clear advice even under time pressure, and progress matters constructively without creating unnecessary friction.
- Resilience and sound judgment in a high-growth environment. You are energised by variety, changing priorities and the opportunity to improve how work gets done; you do not need a narrowly fixed remit, exhaustive instructions, or a fully settled process for every issue before taking ownership.

Location & Working Model
This role is based in Dublin, Ireland. We operate a hybrid working model, with employees expected to attend the office two days per week. We believe in the value of in-person collaboration and invest in bringing our teams together, while supporting flexibility through our hybrid
working environment.
Occasional travel may be required to support team meetings, company events, and business priorities.
If you are ready to take a meaningful step in your legal career and want to be part of something genuinely different, we would love to hear from you!

What you will find here:

Compensation is one of the main components of Clio’s Total Rewards Program. We have developed a series of programs and processes to ensure we are creating fair and competitive pay practices that form the foundation of our human and high-performing culture.

Some highlights of our Total Rewards program include: 

• Competitive, equitable salary with top-tier health benefits and dental coverage

• Hybrid work environment, with expectation for local Clions (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Dublin and Sydney) to be in office minimum twice per week.

• Flexible time off policy

• Pension contribution 

• Clioversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years

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The expected salary range for this role is €86,400 to €116,800 EUR. Initial placement within the range is informed by geographic region, experience, and skillset, with room to progress as impact and tenure grow. Final offer amounts will vary based on candidate profile.

Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity (DIBE) & Accessibility 

Our team shows up as their authentic selves, and are united by our mission. We are dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion. We pride ourselves in building and fostering an environment where our teams feel included, valued, and enabled to do the best work of their careers, wherever they choose to log in from. We believe that different perspectives, skills, backgrounds, and experiences result in higher-performing teams and better innovation. We are committed to equal employment and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

Clio provides accessibility accommodations during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Learn more about our culture at clio.com/careers

We're a Human and High Performing AI company, meaning we use artificial intelligence to improve all of our operations. In recruitment, AI helps us streamline the process for greater efficiency. However, we've built our systems to ensure that a human always reviews AI-generated output, and we never make automated hiring decisions.

Disclaimer: We only communicate with candidates through official @clio.com email addresses.