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Senior Legal Technology Specialist

Posted 23 Mar 2024
Work experience
4 to 7 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

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DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Our global reach ensures that we can help businesses with their legal needs anywhere in the world.

We strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality, service excellence and value to our clients and offering practical and innovative legal solutions to help them succeed. Our clients range from multinational, Global 1000, and Fortune 500 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies, as well as government and public sector bodies.

THE OPPORTUNITY

We are now looking for a Senior Legal Technology Specialist to join our IT team in Amsterdam. In this role you will be the foreman of the local IT team, consisting of two IT specialists, supporting the IT needs of our colleagues within DLA Piper Amsterdam. You will provide direction to the business and IT department in implementing consistent repeatable, cost effective local IT support services. In this role you will work closely with your international IT colleagues and report to the Head of IT who is located in the UK.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPOSIBILITIES

With your flexible attitude to meet the demands of the business, excellent organizational and time management skills you will be, together with your team, responsible for a wide range of tasks. Your tasks will, among others, consist of the following:

  • Third line assistance on various topics
  • Client assistance on client site visits, presentations, meetingsrooms etc
  • Major incident support
  • IT Support with Internal office moves due to expansions or new starters/leavers etc
  • Projects support for inhouse, international and external projects of various kind

As the Senior Legal Technology Specialist you will also be the Local IT representative to the business which includes among others: first point of contact for new country specific requirements, IT Resource planning for on-site cover, attending regular management meetings, being the key stakeholder for projects and Lead on local initiatives.

ABOUT YOU

  • More than 4 years of experience in a desktop support role
  • Management experience of small teams
  • Knowledge of Microsoft technologies and products
  • Any IT qualifications considered
  • Basic understanding of Network Infrastructure
  • Experience of remote management
  • Ability to interface with all levels of lawyers, supervisors internally and across diverse cultures
  • Good understanding of the English language
  • Travel required

Career opportunities

Our continued success relies on our ability to provide an inclusive and motivating environment where everyone has a role to play in achieving our goal to be the leading global business law firm. We offer exceptional career opportunities to our lawyers, aspiring graduates and business services professionals in a truly challenging and rewarding environment. We offer support in the form of training, career prospects and an opportunity to play a role in the development of a key team in our dynamic law firm.

If you are a direct applicant seeking further information about this role please feel free to get in touch with Ilona Spijkerman (Ilona.Spijkerman@dlapiper.com. Please note interested candidates should apply to us directly via the website. We are not accepting agency applications for this role.

DLA Piper is a global law firm capable of taking care of the most important legal needs of clients wherever they do business. With offices throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, we represent more clients in a broader range of geographies and practice disciplines than virtually any other law firm in the world.

Legal
Amsterdam
Active in 40 countries
300 employees
50% men - 50% women
Average age is 29 years

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