Legal Counsel, Clio
EMEA
€86.4-116.8k
Senior and Expert level
Dublin
2 days a week in office
Legal practice management software
Open for applications
Legal practice management software
1001+ employees
B2BSecurityComplianceLegalSaaS
Open for applications
€86.4-116.8k
Senior and Expert level
Dublin
2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
B2BSecurityComplianceLegalSaaS
Company mission
To transform the legal experience for all.
Role
Who you are
- This is a role for a lawyer who is comfortable making progress where the facts, stakeholders, or precedent are not immediately clear
- 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
- 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
What the job involves
- Reports to: Senior Legal Counsel, EMEA
- 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
- 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
- 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
Our take
Modern law firms increasingly manage their work digitally but the lack of a specialized remote solution means that workflows have become fragmented. This leads to legal practice managers having to juggle multiple software solutions across various devices.
Clio provides a legal practice management platform designed for law firms, allowing users to manage billing for legal aid cases, access and manage documents and store files across multiple devices. Whilst other startups are operating in this niche, Clio has uniquely focussed on synchronisation across remote devices and on a wide range of integrations, allowing the user to access information from other industry standard software such as Xero and Klyant from within a single interface.
Clio has raised significant funding and benefited from the COVID-era shift toward cloud technologies. More recently, the company has experienced rapid growth following the integration of AI into its platform in 2023. Alongside this, it surpassed $200M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in mid-2024 and has since grown to an impressive $500M ARR. The company was valued at $5B following a $500M funding round in 2025, with the investment supporting further AI development and platform expansion.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company benefits
- Specialized learning and development programs and access to an in-house performance coach
- Equitable compensation for your contributions, regardless of gender, race, or any other identifying factor
- Access to pay transparency on all of our global roles
- Company equity for applicable employees
- RRSP-matching in Canada, 401k in the US, and pension plans in Ireland
- Hybrid model – striking the right balance between the benefits of in person connectivity that in office brings, and the flexibility of remote
- Flexible paid time off (4-week minimum with opportunities for personalization based on individual needs and achievements)
- Parental leave options for birthing and non-birthing parents
- A $500 contribution to your child’s RESP
- Various health, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family, including an Employee and Family Assistance Program
- Virtual and In-person Wellness Programs to support mental and physical health
- Paid time for volunteering through our Clio Gives program
- $2000 annual counseling benefit for CAD Clions
Company HQ
Burnaby, BC
Leadership
Jack Newton
(Founder & CEO)Alongside serving as Clio's CEO since founding the company in 2008, Jack is an Advisor at Athennian, dealcloser, and Logikcull. Previously, they were a Board Member at ROSS Intelligence and a Director of Product Development at Chenomx.
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