Principal Legal Associate

Overview

This role involves senior legal delivery and direct account-management responsibility for a portfolio of leading global investment firms, asset managers, and corporates across live private equity, M&A, and financing transactions.

The organization is seeking a qualified U.S. Attorney to serve as a Principal Legal Associate. You will combine senior legal judgment with hands-on account management, taking ultimate responsibility for the quality of legal work and the overall health of your allocated client group.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day legal delivery for your allocated client group, ensuring high-quality legal services, strong client experience, deadline compliance, and consistent execution.
• Draft, review, negotiate, and oversee complex NDAs and ancillary transaction documents across private equity, M&A, and financing transactions.
• Act as the senior point of escalation for difficult legal, commercial, client, counterparty, or workflow issues; identify, challenge, and formulate high-quality solutions.
• Oversee and review the work product of junior, specialist, and senior team members to ensure quality, consistency, legal substance, and readiness for client distribution.
• Lead, sign off, review, and refine client playbooks, templates, and precedents, ensuring consistency with internal guidelines, format, and structure.
• Serve as the day-to-day account lead and ultimate “responsible person” for allocated clients, owning the overall health of each account.
• Be available and on call to clients, hosting regular check-ins, negotiation calls, and quarterly business reviews (QBRs) to assess platform usage, service performance, and account direction.
• Track customer health across allocated accounts, proactively identifying risks to satisfaction, retention, or renewal and acting early to address them.
• Take ownership of client complaints and issues end-to-end, drafting responses and driving issues through to resolution.
• Support customer outreach and account growth in partnership with the Account Manager, identifying opportunities to expand or deepen relationships (including onboarding additional document types, new workflows, or changes to scope).
• Provide coaching, feedback, mentoring, and training to team members; identify development needs and design and deliver targeted training.
• Monitor capacity, workload distribution, SLA performance, and service quality across your allocated group; escalate resourcing or performance issues as appropriate.
• Contribute to hiring, interviewing, onboarding, performance calibration, and progression discussions.
• Identify opportunities to improve service delivery, legal technology adoption, workflow design, and managed services scalability.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of internal processes and delivery of workflows.

Legal Technology & AI Integration

• Lead by example in the effective use of the organization’s AI tools across your allocated client group.
• Ensure team members use the tools consistently and appropriately across document review, playbook application, deviation identification, and quality control.
• Maintain full oversight of legal output, ensuring technology-assisted work is reviewed, validated, and aligned with client-approved positions.
• Provide structured feedback to product and engineering teams to support ongoing platform improvement.

Requirements

• 3+ years PQE.
• Must be a qualified U.S. Attorney.
• Law degree (LLB or equivalent).
• Proven experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating core transactional or commercial documents, including confidentiality agreements, engagement letters, and release letters.
• Demonstrable client-facing experience, including direct ownership of client relationships, client calls, and handling client issues or complaints.
• Demonstrable experience supervising, mentoring, or indirectly managing legal team members and reviewing their work product.
• A genuine blend of legal and commercial capability: strong technical capability in the practice of law and commercial aptitude in managing client relationships.
• Excellent written and spoken English, including the ability to explain legal concepts clearly to lawyers, non-lawyers, clients, and senior stakeholders.
• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to producing consistently high-quality work.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with private equity, asset management, hedge fund, or other alternative asset manager clients.
• Account management or customer success experience, including tracking account health and running client review meetings such as QBRs.
• Experience at legal tech, law firms, ALSPs, Big 4 legal teams, or in-house legal departments.
• Experience working with structured playbooks or standardized legal frameworks.
• Experience in a venture-backed technology scale-up environment.

Compensation & Benefits

• 401(k) Retirement Plan: Access to a company-sponsored 401(k) plan.
• Health Insurance: Monthly allowance towards private health insurance.
• Paid Sick Leave: 7 days per year.
• Annual Bonus: Discretionary and performance-based.
• Paid Study Leave / Professional Development: 7 days per year of paid study leave annually for exams and structured learning.
• Generous Paid Time Off: 25 days paid vacation, plus company holidays.
• Confidential Support: Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offering mental health and wellbeing support.

Location & Schedule

• Location: U.S., Remote
• Hours: 9am – 6pm (EST)
• Hybrid and remote working options are available, with the ability to request to work from other countries (upon request).