Director, Legal Operations

Company Description

About Adtalem Global Education

Adtalem Global Education is a national leader in post-secondary education and leading provider of professional talent to the healthcare industry. Adtalem educates and empowers students with the knowledge and skills to become leaders in their communities and make a lasting impact on public health, well-being and beyond. Through equitable access to education, environments that nurture student success, and a focus on expanding and diversifying the talent pipeline in healthcare, Adtalem is building a brighter future for communities and the world.

Adtalem was named one of America’s Most Responsible Companies in 2021 and 2023 by Newsweek and Statista, and one of America’s Best Employers for Diversity in 2021 and 2022 by Forbes and Statista. Adtalem’s family of institutions has more than 300,000 alumni and 10,000 employees. Adtalem is the parent organization of American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Chamberlain University, Ross University School of Medicine, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine and Walden University.

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Job Description

Opportunity at a Glance

The Legal Operations Director is responsible for all operational and financial management for Adtalem Global Education’s Legal Department. The Legal Operations Director is dedicated to designing and maintaining optimal legal processes, deploying tactics to keep the legal team on budget, and providing outstanding customer support to incoming legal requests from the business.  The role will support the Legal Team in providing outstanding and timely services to the business and the institutions.  The role is financially responsible for the fees and expenses associated with all legal matters for the enterprise. The Legal Operations Director is also responsible for vendor management, reporting and technology for the Department, and is responsible for establishing policies and procedures that leverage Company policy, external benchmarks, best practices, and industry best practices. The Legal Operations Director will report directly to the General Counsel. 

Responsibilities

Strategic Planning and Execution

• Responsible for developing, refining and promoting the legal department’s mission, and developing and executing on the department’s short and long term operations plan

• Provide creative thinking to help identify and develop cutting-edge strategies for increasing value and reducing outside legal spend while maintaining excellent legal representation and optimizing engagement practices with our law firms and other legal vendors

• Create metrics and monitor progress to measure success against strategic plans

Department Administration

•   Serves as point of contact for Legal Operations needs

•   Manage new hire onboarding processes for the legal department;

•   Recruit, select, train, appraise performance, and administer salaries of reporting employees

•   Coordinates floor space issues, equipment, new hire orientation

•   Identify training opportunities, facilitate education on best practices, and create department-specific guidelines and policies

•   Coordinate quarterly department meetings and GC Staff Meetings by developing agenda with GC and leadership team, records notes and action items in each meeting, documents and follows up on action items between meetings

•   Perform special projects and responsibilities assigned by the General Counsel

Financial Management/Planning

•     Direct P&L responsibility for all Law and Regulatory Department business and operating expenses

•     Responsible for accounting practices and policies, as well as accurate financial reporting

•     Acts as single point of contact with business finance partners on budgeting, forecasting of spend and all other necessary communications between Finance and Law/Regulatory Departments

•     Responsible for Department budgets, accruals and reserves and develops methodology for annual and quarterly forecasting

•     Measures performance against budgets, and provides recommendations to assure adherence to budget

•     Manages external vendor and outside counsel spend

•     Develops appropriate information management tools to assist Leadership Team and business partners with the historic information necessary to prevent/manage/mitigate future business, legal and business risks

•     Develops methodology for annual and quarterly forecasting

•     Measures performance against budgets, and provide recommendations to assure adherence to budget

•     Identifies drivers of legal e