Paralegal – General Counsel (EO)

at  Irish Medical Council

OVERVIEW

The General Counsel’s team advises the Medical Council across all legal issues arising for the Medical Council, with the exception of complaint related matters which are handled by separate teams of lawyers. The successful candidate will report to the General Counsel and the Associate General Counsel.

• Provision of administrative support to the General Counsel and the team in their day-to-day duties of advising Council, Committee, Executive and other staff across the organization by means of record-keeping, file management drafting agendas for meetings, ensuring that appropriate documentation is collated and prepared for meetings.
• Conducting research, drafting correspondence, preparing and managing documents and files (including setting up and maintaining precedent banks, templates, trackers of legal advice and opinions given both by internal legal advisors and external legal advisors).
• Dealing with, and maintaining positive relationships with a range of stakeholders, internal and external including external legal services providers.
• Implementing and assisting manage appropriate fee management processes and procedures, including ensuring compliance with internal procurement policies and procedures, tracking external legal spend (fee estimates, invoices /purchase orders etc.) and ensuring appropriate reporting of same.
• Liaising with other departments within the Medical Council on key cross functional legislation related projects and other projects requiring the provision of legal advice and providing assistance in relation to these.
• Management of litigation files (except for some complaint related litigation) e.g. personal injuries, employment litigation and judicial reviews and maintaining a litigation tracker of such proceedings and claims, so status updates can be provided.
• Assisting with generation of management/activity reports, reports for CEO, business plans, process mapping and continuous improvement initiatives etc.
• Records Management - organising and archiving the documents related to completed and ongoing matters.
• Actively engage with the risk framework of the Medical Council.
• The above is not an exhaustive list of duties, and the job holder is expected to perform different tasks as necessitated by the changing role within the organisation and the overall business objectives of the organisation.