Legal Director

Permanent employee, Full-time · Hybrid

Your mission

As a Legal Director at Johnson Hana, you will be a senior legal professional bringing deep expertise, strong commercial instincts, and a client-first mindset to our Legal Solutions team. You will play a critical role in bridging legal expertise with commercial value creation by working closely with Account Managers to understand client needs and translate them into tailored, scalable legal solutions.

You will oversee the successful deployment of legal secondees, drive the transformation of secondment engagements into larger managed legal services, and design innovative delivery models that address client pain points using Johnson Hana’s core offerings. Ideally, you are a former in-house counsel from a tech company, bringing both legal depth and strategic vision to scale service delivery.

You’ll also champion consultant engagement, develop legal tools to support delivery, and contribute to a high-performing, solution-driven culture. Your leadership will help evolve the Legal Secondments product into a key pillar of Johnson Hana’s managed legal services strategy while cultivating strong client relationships and high-impact outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

Collaborate with Account Managers to understand client needs and design tailored legal solutions aligned with Johnson Hana’s offerings.
Lead the evolution of secondment engagements into scalable, managed legal service solutions that drive long-term client value.
Act as the legal strategy partner during client sales cycles, leveraging your legal experience to shape and validate proposed solutions.
Oversee the deployment of legal secondees and ensure high-quality delivery, serving as a key point of contact and escalation for legal and delivery-related queries.
Build trusted advisor relationships with senior legal stakeholders in client organizations, acting as a bridge between legal and commercial priorities.
Work closely with the talent team to identify and match the right consultants for engagements and influence recruitment priorities based on strategic needs.
Regularly engage with consultants to gather feedback, support development, and surface client challenges and opportunities.
Drive the creation and delivery of scalable legal operations solutions, tools, and processes to enhance delivery efficiency and consistency.
Develop training initiatives to support consultant upskilling and mindset shift toward a legal consultancy approach.
Champion a client-first mindset across engagements and contribute to internal initiatives that advance Johnson Hana’s legal solutions vision.

Your profile

Legal professional with 8+ years of experience, including time spent as in-house counsel—ideally within a technology-driven environment.
Strong commercial instincts and a demonstrated ability to align legal services with client business goals.
Track record of collaborating cross-functionally with account managers, delivery leads, and talent teams to craft and implement legal solutions.
Proven ability to manage complex legal engagements and lead the transformation of legal service models into scalable solutions.
Deep stakeholder management experience with comfort engaging senior legal and business leaders.
Passionate about innovation in legal services and excited by the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, alternative legal solutions environment.
Ability to guide and mentor consultants while cultivating a thriving legal community.
A proactive, problem-solving mindset with an appetite for building new delivery models and reimagining how legal work gets done.

Why us?

Johnson Hana is Ireland’s leading alternative legal solutions provider. That means we disaggregate legal advisory and legal process work and focus on the latter. We want to change the way legal work is done, and we have big plans to expand and grow massively, but we need your help.

Our Core Values

Next-level people – we naturally go above and beyond. The next level up from our competitor's way of doing things is our natural habitat. Go there.
Faster, with focus – Speed matters, but so does intent. We act fast, but it’s our focus on creating and accelerating change in the legal world that makes us faster.
Me, the person – we don’t do fakes. We celebrate realness. We ask that you bring your whole self to work, every day.
We, the people – this is also a community where we commit to each other. We welcome newcomers. Our community is our colleagues, our clients, and even those in our industry who want change. We are open.
Lean In - In an industry of egos, graft keeps us humble. So, get stuck in. Get your hands dirty. No task is below anyone. Grafting is how we respect the community. And champion change.

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Johnson Hana is Ireland’s leading alternative legal solutions provider.

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