Overview
Our Bermuda Form team works on a broad and varied range of insurance and reinsurance disputes involving resolution in the English Courts and in international arbitration proceedings, with a particular focus on the Bermuda Form. Since the beginnings of the Form, our Bermuda Form team has successfully represented insurers and reinsurers on Bermuda Form arbitrations and related proceedings involving pharmaceuticals, pollution, product liability, professional indemnity, property & casualty, directors & officers, securities class actions and other large excess liability claims. The team regularly acts for Bermuda insurers and reinsurers, London market insurers and reinsurers and for other major insurers of the Bermuda Form. It has extensive experience in running high value, document intensive, coverage disputes to hearing at arbitration.
Department: Bermuda Form
Location: London
The Role
As a Paralegal within our Bermuda Form team, you will support the Insurance & Reinsurance team in advising a wide range of international and domestic clients on complex insurance, reinsurance, and regulatory matters. Working closely with partners and associates, you will assist on high-value coverage disputes, transactional and corporate insurance matters, and advisory mandates within the Bermuda Form market’s unique legal and regulatory framework.
Skills & Experience
* Assisting with the preparation, review, and organisation of legal documents including pleadings, coverage opinions, transaction documents, and regulatory filings.
* Conducting legal and regulatory research, preparing summaries, and monitoring developments in Bermuda insurance and reinsurance law.
* Supporting case management in high-value insurance and reinsurance disputes, including disclosure, bundling, and liaising with counsel and experts.
* Assisting on corporate and transactional insurance work, such as due diligence and document review.
* Helping to draft correspondence, client updates, and internal briefings.
* Maintaining organised files, matter databases, and ensuring compliance with internal processes and regulatory requirements.
* Providing day-to-day support to partners and associates, with opportunities to take on increasing responsibility as skills develop.
When you work at Clyde & Co, you join a team of 500 partners, 2,400 lawyers, 3,200 legal professionals and 5,500 people in nearly 70 offices and associated offices worldwide. Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for both our clients and our firm. We work as one, excel with clients, celebrate difference and act boldly. We are committed to operating in a responsible way by progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities and clients it serves. We are devoted to providing an environment in which everyone can realise their potential, using its legal and professional skills to support its communities. We do this through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment, including through our commitment to the SBTi Net-Zero standard and the setting of ambitious emissions reduction targets.
We offer a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning and wellbeing initiatives.
Clyde & Co is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Our core values encourage us to support fairness, celebrate diversity and prohibit all forms of discrimination in the workplace to allow everyone to excel at work. Therefore, we welcome and encourage all applications from suitably qualified individuals, regardless of background or identity.
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Seniority level
* Entry level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Legal
Industries
* Law Practice
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