Legal Counsel – Pacific

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🌐 Australia, New Zealand – Remote

🇦🇺 Australia – Remote 🇳🇿 New Zealand – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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LexisNexis

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1970

⚖️ Legal

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

💰 Corporate Round on 2021-06

Legal • Consulting • Healthcare

LexisNexis is a provider of professional solutions tailored for law firms, corporations, government agencies, and academic institutions. It offers legal solutions, news, and business insights. LexisNexis also provides risk solutions for companies and government agencies, focusing on data analytics for compliance, customer acquisition, fraud detection, health outcomes, identity solutions, investigations, receivables management, risk decisioning, and workflow optimization. As part of the RELX Group, LexisNexis is committed to enhancing digital experience through data and analytics.

📋 Description

• Provide practical, commercially focused legal advice across the Australian and New Zealand businesses • Manage a broad range of legal matters from end to end with a high degree of autonomy • Draft, review and negotiate B2B customer agreements, content licences, supplier agreements and technology agreements • Negotiate directly with customers, suppliers and other counterparties • Assess commercial risk and balance legal risk with business objectives • Build relationships with senior business stakeholders across Australia and New Zealand • Support key business projects, new products and technology initiatives, including AI-enabled solutions • Use generative AI and legal technology to improve legal service delivery • Develop templates, playbooks and practical guidance • Deliver legal training and participate in legal clinics • Support disputes and pre-litigation matters and manage external counsel where required • Collaborate with legal colleagues across the Pacific and internationally

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years’ PQE • Admission to practice in Australia or New Zealand, with a current practicing certificate or eligibility to obtain one • Strong commercial contracting experience, particularly drafting, reviewing and negotiating agreements • Experience within a top-tier, national or international law firm and/or a large corporate or multinational in-house legal team • Ability to manage matters independently and sound judgement around when to escalate • Strong stakeholder management, drafting and negotiation skills • Practical experience using generative AI tools in legal work • Commercially pragmatic mindset and ability to manage competing priorities • Curiosity, adaptability and appetite to work with ongoing technology and product transformation • Experience in technology, intellectual property, competition and consumer law, content licensing, SaaS, AI or legal technology advantageous • Ability to work within the team’s time-zone requirements; Perth excluded • Applicants must meet applicable work authorization requirements

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working or fully remote • Annual team get-together involving international travel • Country-specific benefits • Well-being and happiness support • Equal opportunity employment

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