IP/Patents Paralegal
- Recruiter
- Larbey Evans Ltd
- Location
- Homeworking
- Salary
- To £30,000 + Benefits
- Posted
- 14 Jan 2021
- Closes
- 19 Jan 2021
- Job Title
- Paralegal
- Practice Area
- Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property, Patent / Trademark
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
A prestigious international Law Firm is looking for a Paralegal to join them on a permanent basis, working in their Patent / Intellectual Property team, with this work covering Patents, Intellectual Property and Life Sciences. This role will be litigation focused so candidates with trial and litigation experience from start to finish will be ideal. Duties will include assisting with the conduct of litigation/arbitration/mediation and involvement in key stages, for example, pre-action, pleadings, disclosure, witness statements and settlement negotiations, assisting and, where appropriate, leading document review tasks including pre-action investigations, disclosure and data subject access requests. Liaising with the firm's eDiscovery and Client Data team in respect of these, preparing draft correspondence and analysing key documents in litigation, legal research on discrete points for ongoing matters including using legal databases and other resources to obtain and review case law and articles and presenting this information in clear and concise reports. Applicants need to have trial/commercial litigation experience, ideally from a top London/Litigation/Patent/IP law firm with a preference on IP/Patent experience. This role is to initially be remote / homeworking with flexibility required as and when the staff move back to the office, standard hours are 9:30am to 5:30pm with a salary in the region of up to £30,000.