Senior Paralegal

Senior Paralegal

Newcastle

£Competitive

Key Responsibilities of the Senior Paralegal:

The Senior Paralegal will work under the supervision of the department's Operations Managers, the Head of Operations and the instructing lawyer and will be responsible for a range of tasks including the following:

• Providing supervision and guidance to the paralegals
• Carrying out quality assurance exercises to ensure the quality of the work completed by paralegals
• Providing feedback and coaching paralegals 
• Carrying out some line management responsibilities as required
• Managing legal projects
• Preparing precedents and guidance
• Drafting certain transaction documents and letters
• Using technology such as Kira and Relativity to supplement the completion of legal work

You will also be required to fee-earn, completing a range of legal tasks such as:

• Drafting corporate legal review summaries and reports using the firm's standard reporting templates
• Assisting with reviewing and tagging documents for responsiveness to regulatory questions posed by the Competition and Markets Authority and other regulatory bodies
• Preparing schedules to reflect draft amendments to legislation and incorporating addenda to existing client contracts to comply with regulatory changes
• Reviewing loan/financing documentation for specific provisions within the context of transactions and providing analysis on complex contractual clauses
• Building due diligence questionnaires into the firm's virtual data room site, CC Connect, and carrying out validation and testing to ensure that the questionnaire is fit for project requirements
• Drafting letters and/or regulatory filings, employee and shareholder notifications arising out of contractual or M&A reporting obligations
• Summarising responses to requests for arbitration and counterclaims from counterparties in disputes.

Skills & Experience:

The Senior Paralegal candidate will possess the following skills:

• You will have strong academics and ideally will be a graduate
• Proven paralegal experience
• A talent for leading and managing people, ideally paralegals
• The ability to provide constructive feedback and be a proficient coach
• Quality checking work
• To assist with the development of the paralegal population
• The ability to work under pressure
• Work under minimal supervision and be proactive and hardworking
• Strong writing ability
• Have a flexible attitude to work
• Detail oriented and have strong analytical skills
• Be organised and efficient, and be proficient in delivering multiple tasks to deadline every time
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Very strong interpersonal skills