Reporting to the Head of DI Knowledge, the role requires excellent organisational abilities, legal research and drafting skills and an ability to make use of the firm’s extensive suite of IT products and platforms. The successful candidate will work closely and interact with people in the DI Group and across the firm at all levels, including partners, associates, trainees, other paralegals and EAs.
When our clients’ commercial and reputational interests are at stake, they turn to us. We are a leading disputes practice, representing corporates, financial institutions and governments in complex commercial litigation in the Courts and Tribunals. We are recognised in particular for our expertise in major class actions and group litigation, banking disputes and competition damages actions.
Our international arbitration practice advises on complex, high-value and strategically significant disputes, particularly those arising in a post-M&A context, for clients from every business sector, notably energy and infrastructure, financial services and healthcare.
Over the past three decades, we have played significant roles in many of the most important regulatory and criminal investigations representing companies and individuals in financial regulatory and corporate crime investigations, prosecutions, enforcement actions and related civil litigation.
The DI Group is made up of 17 partners, over 100 associates and 28 trainee solicitors. Business Development (BD) professionals; a Project Management team; Monitoring new judgments and preparing summaries suitable for busy fee-earners.
Drafting articles on legal developments of relevance to the Group and its clients.
Knowhow collection
Co-ordinating, with the Knowledge and Information Manager, the collection of DI precedent documents created by fee-earners, identifying useful materials, and indexing and publishing them on the firm’s knowhow system.
Training
Liaising with the KLs, fee-earners and external speakers to co-ordinate the planning and scheduling of training sessions, including dedicated programmes for trainees and newly-qualified solicitors.
Working with the team EA to facilitate the delivery and recording of training sessions, and to monitor and report on attendance.
With the Head of DI Knowledge, co-ordinating the Group’s monthly all-hands meeting to discuss new legal developments.
Working with the team EA to prepare agendas for Knowledge team meetings and monitoring and reporting on the delivery of objectives.
Maintaining data on aspects of the Group’s practice, including hearing dates and details of arbitrations.
Day-to-day support for the KLs, including ad hoc projects and research tasks.
Monitoring and proactively updating the Group’s intranet pages.
Strong academic qualifications, including a degree (2:1 degree or above from a top university preferred) or post-graduate diploma in law and completion of the LPC.
Ability to pick up new legal concepts and terminology quickly.
Good IT skills, including experience using applications such as MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and MS Outlook, and an ability to learn new IT systems quickly.
Strong team player, ability to adapt and fit into a diverse team, reliable, flexible and willing to take on new challenges.
Analysis & judgement