Senior Legal Hold & E-Discovery Lead (Remote UAE)

CareerCompass GH; Abu Dhabi; Remote; AED 250,000 - 450,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote within UAE

Competitive compensation

Professional development

Collaborative environment

Job summary

CareerCompass GH is seeking a Senior Legal Hold Specialist to manage and coordinate legal hold processes, ensuring preservation of documents in response to litigation, regulatory investigations, and internal inquiries. You will work with legal counsel, IT, compliance, records management, and business stakeholders to ensure defensible preservation practices and thorough documentation.

This fully remote role requires strong knowledge of legal hold procedures, information governance, electronic

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Law, Legal Studies, Information Governance, Business Administration, Records Management, or a related discipline.
• Significant experience in legal hold administration, litigation support, e-discovery, records management, or legal operations.
• Strong understanding of legal hold procedures and document preservation principles.
• Familiarity with litigation, regulatory investigations, internal investigations, and discovery-related preservation requirements.
• Experience coordinating legal hold notices, custodian acknowledgments, and preservation tracking.
• Knowledge of electronically stored information (ESI), including email, documents, messaging platforms, and cloud-based records.

Responsibilities

• Manage the end-to-end legal hold lifecycle, from initial request and implementation through monitoring, release, and closure.
• Coordinate the issuance of legal hold notices in accordance with instructions from authorized legal counsel.
• Identify relevant custodians, departments, systems, repositories, and information sources subject to preservation requirements.
• Prepare, distribute, and track legal hold notifications and acknowledgment requests.
• Monitor custodian acknowledgments and follow up on overdue responses or incomplete confirmations.
• Coordinate with IT, records management, HR, compliance, and business units to implement preservation measures.
• Maintain accurate records of legal hold notices, custodian lists, preservation instructions, acknowledgments, and related correspondence.
• Support the collection and transfer of preserved information to authorized legal teams or e-discovery providers.
• Coordinate preservation activities across cloud platforms, enterprise applications, collaboration tools, and physical records repositories.
• Maintain legal hold tracking registers, dashboards, status reports, and audit-ready documentation.

Skills

Legal hold

E-discovery

Information governance

Stakeholder coordination

Data privacy

Education

Bachelor's degree in Law

Tools

eDiscovery platforms

Document management systems

Job description

CareerCompass GH is seeking a Senior Legal Hold Specialist to manage and coordinate legal hold processes, ensuring preservation of documents in response to litigation, regulatory investigations, and internal inquiries. You will work with legal counsel, IT, compliance, records management, and business stakeholders to ensure defensible preservation practices and thorough documentation.

This fully remote role requires strong knowledge of legal hold procedures, information governance, electronic