Senior Legal Associate

About the role

You will independently handle medium- to high-complexity contracting work for US, UK and global clients.

You will also be a domain expert in legal tech and AI work: building playbooks, testing AI tools and helping clients adopt new ways of working.

Key responsibilities

Legal delivery

• Contracting: independently draft, review and negotiate medium- to high-complexity agreements, such as MSAs, SOWs, licensing, SaaS, vendor, data-processing and industry-specific contracts.
• Risk and escalation: spot non-standard terms, apply client playbooks and fallbacks, and escalate high-risk issues to the Manager with a clear recommendation.
• Quality: act as second-level reviewer for associates’ work and meet SLAs, turnaround and accuracy targets.

Client engagement

• Join and lead working-level calls with client legal and business teams and with counterparties in the US, UK and other regions.
• Help maintain playbooks, templates and clause libraries, and suggest updates based on negotiation trends.

Team leadership

• If required, lead a team of 1-3 Legal Associates: allocate work, review output, give feedback and run training.
• Support the Manager with reporting, capacity planning and onboarding of new clients or workstreams.

Legal tech and AI

• Support legal tech and AI implementations as a domain expert: translate playbooks into AI rules, test and validate AI output, and take part in UAT.
• Use CLM and AI tools in daily delivery and recommend ways to automate repetitive work.
• Help explain tools and new processes to client users and the internal team.

Requirements

• LLB / LLM from a recognised university; enrolment with the Bar Council of India preferred.
• 5+ years in commercial / contract law with a law firm, in-house legal team, ALSP / LPO, or Big Four legal practice.
• Ability to independently draft, review and negotiate medium- to high-complexity contracts with limited supervision.
• Experience supporting US, UK or global clients and working across time zones.
• Experience reviewing others’ work, mentoring juniors or leading a small team.
• Working knowledge of CLM or AI contract review tools, and interest in legal tech and AI implementation.
• Excellent written and spoken English and attention to detail.

Preferred skills and tools

• CLM and AI tools: Icertis, Ironclad, Agiloft, DocuSign CLM, Leah, Luminance, Microsoft Copilot.
• Experience in contract abstraction, obligation management or contract migration projects.
• Prompt-writing or playbook-building experience for GenAI tools.