Legal Operations Specialist

The role

This role supports the Legal and Compliance team by handling core paralegal tasks and building legal systems, workflows, and databases. You will act as a liaison between Legal and Compliance and other firm stakeholders.

What you will do

• Designing, organizing, managing, and maintaining databases
• Support daily legal operations and oversee ad hoc projects
• Organizing and maintaining centralized directories, contract templates, and support materials
• Reviewing and preparing documentation
• Collecting signatures, drafting, blacklining, proofreading, scanning, and completing forms
• Facilitating the collection and provision of data to stakeholders
• Identifying bottlenecks, proposing improvements, and implementing solutions

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 3+ years of paralegal or legal operations experience at a law firm or in-house
• Process thinker who can identify bottlenecks, brainstorm solutions, and drive efforts to resolve them
• Fundamental understanding of legal documentation and corporate governance principles
• Self-starter with a strong independent work ethic
• Able to handle competing priorities
• Strong communicator with great people skills
• Experienced with databases, project management, and AI tools
• Excellent computer skills (MS Word, Excel, Google Workspace, web-based portals, and legal workflow/entity management systems)
• Reliable, courteous, and flexible team player
• Licensed notary, or willing to become one

About the company

Jane Street is a firm with a fast-growing Legal and Compliance team.