Paralegal/Support Lawyer (Contentious)

Requirements

• The ideal candidate will have prior experience working on dispute matters and has a strong interest in litigation work.
• Adopts a team-orientated approach and prepared to assist clients and colleagues to meet deadlines
• Ability to work on multiple projects and prioritize effectively
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong office administration skills, including a working knowledge of MS office applications
• Performs well under pressure
• Demonstrates strong commitment to maintaining high levels of customer service
• Approachable and willing to learn new skills and take on responsibility
• Excellent attention to detail
• Good business acumen with sound understanding of legal market
• To provide arbitration matter management support, including:
• Expectations of the role
• Reviewing and redacting documents using eDiscovery platforms such as Relativity
• Preparing bundles
• Legal research
• Paginating and annotating documents
• Document management tasks such as indexing, organizing folders/data rooms, archiving
• Assisting with witness interviews and trial and hearing preparation
• Proofreading
• Ensure consistent high quality of task execution and in the delivery of contentious legal services, including use of supporting technology e.g. legal research tools and discovery platforms
• Anticipate and be reactive to changing client instructions and requirements
• Monitor own performance, actively seek and act on feedback
• UK based, but providing global advice, support
• Expected to be on call 24/7 during busy periods
• Experience required
• LPC/SQE1/BPTC or Qualified Lawyer
• 2+ years working as a paralegal or support lawyer for a Litigation team.
• 2:1 Degree (or equivalent)
• Skilled in using MS applications, including Word, Outlook, Excel and Powerpoint.
• Third-party provider
• Technical Skills
• This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive. It is intended to describe the general content of, and requiremen

Benefits

Additional Information

Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional. We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction. Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair and open atmosphere. We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias, because we want everyone to feel that they belong. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common mind-set. We recognise that one size does not fit all. Our goal is to embed flexibility across our firm by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further. Our Paralegal & Support Lawyer capability is integrated within Alternative Legal Services (ALS) working seamlessly with the practice, ensuring efficient matter delivery from inception through to completion. The team deliver traditional paralegal support as well as process driven legal services, working seamlessly with our matter teams and other Alternative Legal Services teams to provide high quality, effective support. The purpose of this role is to provide long term support to our Litigation, Arbitration & Investigations Group on a litigation matter and to successfully deliver work in accordance with instructions from the Practice.

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