Senior Litigation Attorney

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa Cognia Law Full time

**Cognia Law is recruiting a Senior Litigation Attorney, with significant experience in e-Discovery to provide legal support to Cognia and their Clients.**

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COMPANY PROFILE**
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Cognia Law is an international law company, providing consulting, flexible resourcing and managed legal services to law departments and law firms. The company brings cost-effective, process-optimised and technology-enabled solutions to solve clients’ most pressing legal challenges. Cognia Law collaborates with those who are game changers in adjacent areas delivering holistic, value-based solutions and world-class delivery with best-fit talent.
Cognia Law is a Chambers-ranked law company and has a reputation for really making a difference and being focused on solving clients’ problems and enabling sustainable change in the legal sector. The key to success is our people - not only do we attract and retain the best legal talent but focus on enabling our team to realise their full potential.

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ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES*
- Managing and developing a team of legal professionals ensuring teams are delivering quality work as per client requirements and instruction.
- Firm grasp of litigation and document requirements.
- Familiar with both a consultative and technical approach.
- Managing an effective e-Discovery lifecycle.
- Successfully manage multiple workstreams.
- Perform quality control to ensure processes are accurate, particularly around document production and maintain accurate documentation on every matter.
- Critically examine workflows paying special attention to allocation of resources.
- Maintaining strong relationships with all relevant stakeholders.
- Proactively deal with and troubleshoot issues arising.

**REQUIREMENTS**
- A tertiary qualification in Law (LLB, Bcom Law, LLM)
- 5-8 years post articles experience with at least 2 years’ experience as a Senior Litigation Associate in e-Discovery
- The maturity and professionalism to be directly customer-facing with international law firms, corporate, and investment banking clients;
- The ability to be articulate and confident;
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills;
- Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills;
- Demonstrable leadership abilities.
- Additional Beneficial Skills_
- Legal Tech certification (e.g Relativity, Nuix, RAVN, Kira)
- Numeracy
- Data Analytics/AI Data Modelling

**COMPETENCIES**:

- Honest Communication_
- Uses active listening and refined questioning skills to elicit underlying needs and requirements from client, partners and other stakeholders
- Raises issues with clients and other stakeholders in a proactive, constructive and timely manager
- Provides guidance and constructive feedback to the team on work output, taking further action as appropriate
- Delivering Excellence_
- Proactively manages teams to ensure they deliver best client outcome
- Puts in place processes and check to ensure high-quality outcome
- Shapes work products to meet client requirements
- Building strong relationships_
- Leads by example
- Allocated time to building productive client relationships
- Develops strong network inside and outside Cognia for mutual benefit
- Actively builds in time to spend with more junior colleagues to coach them and assist in their professional development
- Bringing the values alive_
- Articulates the benefits of Cognia's values to employees
- Treats employees fairly
- Ensures time is allocated to allow employees to participate in CSR activities
- Has on-going focus on self-development and raising self-awareness, both for others and themself
- Being agile_
- Be a self Starter
- Ensures time or the team to think of and develop ideas
- Draws on wide range of sources, people and thinking to find innovative ways of working and resolving issues
- Suggest new service offerings
- Looks for opportunities to develop skills
- Acts as a change manager

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