Job Description
ROLE OVERVIEW //
We are offering a fantastic opportunity for a professional, engaging individual to join our DI Knowledge team. 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. Our Disputes and Investigations (DI) Group has an outstanding reputation for delivering successful outcomes in some of the most complex and sensitive disputes and investigations in the market.
* 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.
* We are one of the world’s leading cross-border investigations practices. 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. Fee-earners are supported by a Knowledge team, consisting of four Knowledge Lawyers (KLs), a Knowledge and Information Manager and an Executive Assistant (EA); Business Development (BD) professionals; a Project Management team; and a dedicated Evidence and Operations team.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES //
The key responsibilities of this role are set out below and there may be others which are not listed. You may be required on occasion to work outside our normal working hours of 9:30am to 5:30pm.
Research and Drafting
* Monitoring new judgments and preparing summaries suitable for busy fee-earners.
* Drafting articles on legal developments of relevance to the Group and its clients.
* Leading on the preparation of the Group’s weekly update email.
* Drafting, in consultation with a Senior Knowledge Lawyer, the Global Investigation Group’s monthly client newsletter.
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.
* Assisting fee-earners with precedent searches, identifying and tracking cases, and obtaining court documents.
* Supporting the KLs in updating model form documents.
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.
Organisational Support
* 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.
CANDIDATE PROFILE //
Candidates for this position must have:
* 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.
* Excellent organisational and time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritise work effectively.
* Highly competent written and spoken communication, confidence interacting professionally with a broad range of people, including lawyers and members of Business Services of varying levels.
* Ability to pick up new legal concepts and terminology quickly.
* Excellent research skills and eye for detail.
* 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.
* Self-motivation and ability to work independently and pro-actively where appropriate.
* Strong team player, ability to adapt and fit into a diverse team, reliable, flexible and willing to take on new challenges.
* High level of professionalism and integrity; displays the highest standard of professional ethics.
You will also be expected to display the attributes set out under the firm’s Key Behaviours for Business Services staff for this level of role. Below are the most relevant for this role:
* Technical & professional expertise
* Service excellence
* Drive to deliver
* Analysis & judgement
* Communication & influence
* Working with others
* Leading & managing people
* Resilience