Associate/ Consultant, Law Technology - Sydney

Job description

EY Law is an established international law firm which is part of Ernst & Young. We act for both local and overseas clients through our numerous offices in Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.   EY Law has a truly global footprint, comprising over 2100 lawyers across 83 countries. We work in conjunction with the market leading professionals of Ernst & Young to directly advise local and overseas clients on a broad range of significant corporate transactions. 

The opportunity
The Oceania Law Technology team recently won the prestigious global AI@EY competition.  The award winning team is now seeking a talented lawyer to assist in identifying, evaluating, creating and delivering new technology driven capabilities and client facing solutions, working across inter-disciplinary teams, including our Global Innovation AI team.  This role reports to the Oceania Law Technology Leader and would suit a 1-2 year lawyer with transactional law experience.

We will develop your career by providing excellent mentoring from highly experienced international lawyers.  We offer a high degree of “hands on” experience using “state of the art” technology working closely with diverse global law and commercial teams.

Your key responsibilities
·  Designing and delivering new technology driven law solutions to market
·  Document harmonisation and automation
·  Project definition, technology evaluation, solution development, change management, training and implementation
·  Facilitating Legal Design workshops
·  Assisting with the designing and delivery of internal and external communications
Skills and attributes for success
·  A creative flair and curious mindset
·  “Can do” attitude and demonstrated tenacity in navigating ambiguity
·  Ability to build effective internal and external relationships
·  Excellent collaboration and communication skills
·  An eye for detail 
To qualify for the role you must have the following
·  1-2 years post admission experience
·  Experience in designing and developing technology solutions
·  Familiarity with Design Thinking and innovation processes
·  Demonstrated interest in emerging technologies
·  Experience in working as part of an inter-disciplinary team
You may also have the following
·  Project and/or change management experience
·  Precedent and/or document automation experience
·  Graphic design and/or process engineering experience
·  Experience organising or participating in Law Hackathons
·  A STEM / coding background
What we look for
In addition a willingness to co-ordinate and work together with the other teams of EY international is essential. EY is a global professional services firm and most of our work involves working together with various other professional teams in various locations.

What working at EY offers
We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and the value you bring. Our Total Rewards package includes support for career development, and an extensive range of wellbeing and benefit offerings. To find out how some of our people are using these arrangements to help them achieve a lifestyle balance, please click here .

Who we are
EY is an inclusive and equal opportunity employer offering a vast range of internal networks including Unity, our LGBTI network and our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander network.  These provide our people with the opportunity to connect across offices and allow us all to embrace and value the diverse society we live within.  We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment process and supportive work environment. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application.

About Law at EY
We are part of the expanding EY legal network which is an international law firm with offices in the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. EY Law has a truly global footprint, comprising over 2100 lawyers across 83 countries. Whether acting for a client in a single legal capacity or as part of a formal multi-service EY engagement, our direct access to EY’s international network ensures clients receive an efficient, streamlined and cost effective service.

We work closely with our assurance , tax , transaction and advisory colleagues, we draw on extensive experience beyond the borders of law to provide multidisciplinary services. Our Law network brings together legal specialists around the world, and is continuing to grow at a rapid rate. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

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The preferred applicant will be subject to employment screening by EY or by their external third party provider.

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