Legal Counsel (EMEA)

Join Clio, a leading legal technology company, as a Legal Counsel for the EMEA region. In this role, you will support the commercial and operational legal needs of the business, manage a varied portfolio of commercial matters, and contribute to the development of scalable legal processes and infrastructure. You will advise cross-functional teams, including Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, Procurement, Security, and Operations, and have a genuine impact on commercial decisions. This is an exciting opportunity for a lawyer looking to broaden their commercial exposure and make a meaningful contribution to a growing legal technology business.

• Assister à la gestion d'un portefeuille varié de questions commerciales, en prenant en charge l'identification des problèmes, la recherche d'informations pertinentes et la fourniture de recommandations claires.
• Rédiger, examiner et négocier une large gamme d'accords commerciaux, y compris les NDA, les contrats de fournisseur et d'approvisionnement, les accords de services professionnels.
• Agir en tant que partenaire juridique de confiance pour les équipes commerciales, en fournissant des conseils commerciaux et pragmatiques qui soutiennent l'exécution des transactions tout en gérant les risques de manière appropriée.

• This is a role for a lawyer who is comfortable making progress where the facts, stakeholders, or precedent are not immediately clear
• Proven ability to manage a high volume of varied matters independently while maintaining attention to detail
• 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
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to balance legal risk with commercial objectives and deliver pragmatic, timely advice
• Demonstrated experience independently managing commercial contract negotiations and advising stakeholders on legal and commercial risk
• 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
• 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
• Qualified solicitor or lawyer with 3–5 years of post-qualification experience, from private practice or in-house
• Working knowledge of GDPR and data protection principles, with the ability to support practical compliance reviews
• 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.**
• Comfortable working within scalable processes and playbooks, while applying judgment and adapting the approach where the circumstances require it
• 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.**
• A customer-first mindset and genuine commitment to enabling business growth
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities without losing quality or pace
• Confidence working directly with stakeholders across multiple levels of the organisation
• A continuous improvement mindset — an interest not just in doing the work, but in making the function better
• Curiosity, adaptability, and a genuine appetite to keep developing**, including the confidence to investigate unfamiliar questions, form a view, and make a practical recommendation.**
• 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
• 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
• Sound commercial judgment and a practical approach to risk management