Knowledge Paralegal (12 month FTC)
About Herbert Smith Freehills
As one of the world’s leading law firms, we advise many of the largest and most ambitious organisations across all major regions of the globe. With over 5,000 people, including 3,100 lawyers and over 2,000 business services professionals, operating from our global network of offices across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and North America, Herbert Smith Freehills is at the heart of the new global business landscape providing premium quality, full-service legal advice.
We recognise that the success of our business and our clients relies on the skills, knowledge and ideas of all our people. Our environment is one in which high performance is expected, in return, we will provide you with rewards and opportunities tailored to your personal and professional goals.
The Opportunity
Key responsibilities:
- An opportunity to undertake a significantly more technical legal role than the usual paralegal function, in this ground-breaking and dynamic team at one of the world's leading law firms. You will be working as a knowledge paralegal, which means that your focus will be on summarising and interpreting emerging case law, helping to communicate the law to fee earners and clients, and other activities relating to harnessing, utilising and communicating legal knowledge. Your time will be split between the diverse practice areas of banking litigation and public law, directly assisting the knowledge counsel (both of whom have over 20 years' experience) for each respective team. Working directly with senior lawyers, the role provides an unusually high level of contact with partners across the two practice areas. There is also scope for pro bono work with the firm's award-winning public law team who have been recognised for their work in this area.
- Monitoring legal case updates (e.g. Lawtel and Westlaw) to identify new decisions of interest.
- Reading the latest judgments and drafting case summaries.
- Proof reading, formatting and arranging publication of external e-bulletins and blog posts.
- Assisting with preparation and delivery of podcasts.
- Drafting the regular internal case law update to the banking litigation team.
- Helping to organise the banking litigation internal seminar series.
- Tracking the progress and status of banking litigation cases of interest.
- Gathering and uploading knowhow.
- Assisting with external presentations and client seminars.
Qualifications, skills and experience:
- Law degree or undergraduate degree (ideally 2.1 or first)
- Preferably will have successfully completed LPC / Bar Course or equivalent / SQE
- Office administration experience or paralegal work experience preferred
- Excellent analytical skills
- Excellent communication skills, oral and written
- Excellent research skills
- Excellent client service skills
Team
Disputes, London HR Alison Gent Level 1Working Pattern
Location
LondonContract type
Fixed Term ContractDiversity & Inclusion
At Herbert Smith Freehills you will be part of a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus and highly engaged people are our differentiator. People at our firm come from a range of backgrounds and bring a wide variety of experiences and perspectives to their work with us. We strive to ensure that our inclusive environment means you feel valued and able to perform at your best by being your authentic self at work. We know that our future success not only depends on being innovative and progressive in the changing legal market but, most importantly, on our people feeling highly engaged in meaningful work.
We understand that you have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to create a working environment based on mutual trust and respect, in which you can perform at your best whilst maintaining sustainable balance across your life.
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