paralegal
7 the last 249 days, recently 2023-07-15
Responsibility
- overview
- assisting the Senior Sigma Law Specialist and Sigma Lawyer in reviewing electronic legal documents and other associated ad hoc legal tasks
- responsibilities & Qualifications
Show more +32 - assessing the relevance of a wide range of legal documentation
- working closely with Associates and Partners across the Banking and Finance team
- reviewing documents for privilege and/or relevant information
- due Diligence of legal documents relating to corporate and financial transactions
- managing virtual data rooms and supporting deals by drafting documentation
- creating and managing data rooms
- cross-referencing of due diligence documents
- conducting Companies House filing
- checking legal documents for quality, consistency, and content
- completion work including DocuSign
- drafting and updating CP checklists and ancillary documents such as corporate authorisations
- drafting legal documents using precedents
- preparing Bibles and conducting the live deals in Closings
- identifying opportunities to improve legal processes and articulating the case for making the change
- amending and redacting legal documents
- due diligence of funds finance documents
- note: This job description is generic and therefore, is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities
- preparing bibles and drafting indices
- assisting with ad hoc administrative and legal tasks under instruction
- working with legal technology
- ensuring the quick and efficient delivery of work to meet strict deadlines set by the client
- working closely with Reed Smith fee earners to provide general, ad hoc support under instruction
- checking legal documents for quality, consistency and content
- works flexibly and actively seeks opportunities to learn new legal processes
- ensuring the quick and efficient delivery of work to meet strict deadlines
- working flexibly and actively seeking opportunities to learn new legal processes including working with legal technology
- ensure efficient practices and provide feedback to managers on where improvements can be made
- attend internal training and external training as and when required
- all adhoc banking and fund finance work
- participate in team meetings
- named by ALM Intelligence as the only Pacesetter in the Legal category in its 2021-2022 Legal Department Legal Operations report
- performance Improvement
Requirements
- superb analytical skills
- experience of reviewing/drafting simple documents such as offers letters/NDA's/Settlement agreements/Supplier agreements
- ability to use e-Discovery systems such as Relativity
Show more +23 - ideally 12 months plus experience as a paralegal in a corporate banking team
- enjoys working as a part of a team and adapts working styles to fostering a spirit of team working
- good analytical, communication and problem solving skills
- experience of building credibility and trust with a diverse and challenging business stakeholder group
- case/project management skills, attention to detail, and the ability to meet tight deadlines without sacrificing quality of client service
- comfortable with change and embraces opportunities to work faster and smarter
- ability to work under tight deadlines
- fluent in standard MS Office applications and ability to quickly master new software
- case/project management skills, attention to detail, and the ability to meet tight deadlines without sacrificing the quality of client service
- detail oriented
- resilience under pressure and motivated by accountability and the desire to meet or exceed objectives and deadlines
- additional languages are a plus
- excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to build relationships
- housing Litigation: 1 year
- residential Property Litigation: 1 year
- comfortable and capable of working proactively in a global organization
- reliable, meets deadlines and anticipates problems
- reliable meets deadlines and anticipates problems
- disrepairs: 1 year
- takes personal ownership of self-improvement
- ability to quickly master new software and work with technology
- positive “can-do” attitude, whether working individually or as part of a team
- fluent in standard MS Office applications and the ability to quickly master new software
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