Corporate/ Commercial Paralegal
Are you looking for a career change in 2019? Would you like to work for a prestigious law firm that has a fantastic reputation?
Our client is looking for a corporate/ commercial paralegal who can provide legal and administrative support to lawyers in the corporate and commercial team on a permanent basis. Alongside this, you will need to provide secretarial support for a minimum of four fee earners, organising travel arrangements (air/train tickets) for them all.
This team handles a mixture of work including national and international mergers and acquisitions and disposals, joint venture and shareholder arrangements, corporate governance and regulatory advice, insolvency and corporate recovery and private equity transactions.
In this role you will be required to:
- Undertake legal research
- Draft legal documents
- Prepare a variety of reports
- Assist with corporate transactions, under supervision, supporting processes such as due diligence and verifications
- Proof read, copy checking, indexing and archiving/ filing
- Produce document lists for files
- Collate and complete documentation bibles
Further to this, your administrative tasks will be:
- Billing
- Filing (electronic and paper)
- Correspondence
- File opening and CDD
- Audio typing from digital dictation, copy typing and document production
In order to be considered for this position you will need to have:
- 2:1 in law degree and have completed the LPC
- Strong academic results
- The ability to multi-task
- Excellent writing and communication skills
- Ability to undertake legal research
- Knowledge of legal terminology
- Attention to detail
- Works well to deadlines
- Prepared to work outside contractual hours as and when required
- Fast, accurate audio typing skills
Benefits of the position:
- 25 days annual leave
- Contributory Pension Scheme
- Private Medical Insurance
- Season Ticket Loan
- Life Assurance