Senior Legal Hold Specialist

Job Title: Senior Legal Hold Specialist

Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Work Arrangement: 100% Remote — Work From Home

Level: Senior

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Legal Hold Specialist to manage and coordinate legal hold processes, ensuring the preservation of potentially relevant information in connection with litigation, investigations, regulatory inquiries, and other legal matters. The successful candidate will work closely with legal counsel, compliance teams, records management, IT, information security, and business stakeholders to identify custodians, issue legal hold notices, monitor preservation activities, and maintain accurate documentation.

This fully remote role requires strong knowledge of legal hold procedures, electronic records preservation, eDiscovery workflows, and information governance practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain legal hold procedures, workflows, and documentation standards.
• Coordinate the issuance, distribution, acknowledgment, and release of legal hold notices under the direction of authorized legal counsel.
• Identify relevant custodians, business units, systems, and information repositories for preservation.
• Work with legal teams to understand preservation requirements, matter scope, and relevant deadlines.
• Monitor custodian acknowledgments and follow up on outstanding legal hold confirmations.
• Coordinate with IT, records management, and information security teams to preserve relevant electronic and physical records.
• Support the identification and preservation of emails, documents, collaboration data, messaging records, and other potentially relevant information.
• Maintain accurate legal hold registers, custodian lists, matter records, and preservation tracking logs.
• Monitor compliance with legal hold obligations and escalate potential preservation risks or non-compliance.
• Coordinate periodic legal hold reminders, status reviews, and custodian recertification activities.
• Support legal hold release processes following documented authorization from legal counsel.
• Assist with eDiscovery and litigation support activities, including preservation readiness and defensible documentation.
• Prepare management reports, audit evidence, and status dashboards relating to legal hold activities.
• Review legal hold processes and recommend improvements to strengthen efficiency, consistency, and accountability.
• Coordinate with external legal service providers and eDiscovery vendors when required.
• Maintain strict confidentiality and protect sensitive, privileged, and potentially discoverable information.
• Support audits and internal reviews relating to records preservation and information governance.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Law, Legal Studies, Information Governance, Records Management, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• Significant experience in legal hold management, litigation support, eDiscovery, records management, or legal operations.
• Strong understanding of legal hold workflows and document preservation principles.
• Familiarity with electronic records, email systems, enterprise collaboration platforms, and information repositories.
• Experience coordinating custodian identification, legal hold notifications, acknowledgments, and compliance monitoring.
• Knowledge of eDiscovery processes, litigation readiness, and defensible preservation practices.
• Understanding of records retention policies, data privacy principles, and information governance requirements.
• Experience using legal hold, eDiscovery, matter management, or records management platforms.
• Strong documentation, reporting, and audit-trail management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to coordinate with legal and technical stakeholders.
• High attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple legal matters and competing deadlines.
• Strong judgment and discretion when handling confidential or privileged information.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively with distributed teams in a remote environment.

What We Offer

• A fully remote, work-from-home arrangement.
• Competitive compensation based on experience and qualifications.
• Opportunities to support complex legal, compliance, and information governance matters.
• Collaboration with legal, technology, compliance, and records management professionals.
• Professional development and opportunities for career progression.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should submit an updated CV highlighting their experience in legal hold administration, litigation support, eDiscovery, records preservation, and information governance.

Application Subject: Application – Senior Legal Hold Specialist (UAE Remote)

• Candidates should confirm applicable employment arrangements, residency requirements, and work authorization before accepting an offer. Legal advice, legal representation, formal legal determinations, and decisions to issue or release legal holds must remain with appropriately qualified and authorized legal counsel. The specialist's role is to coordinate and administer preservation activities in accordance with counsel's instructions and applicable requirements.