Paralegal

at  Pinsent Masons

CANDIDATE OVERVIEW

We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:

• A passion for quality, excellent service delivery as well as self-improvement
• An interest in building a career in an alternative legal services environment
• Experience using Microsoft packages including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Customer service, administrative or previous legal experience would be beneficial

Vario is a market leading alternative legal services provider within the law firm, Pinsent Masons. It is unique in the legal sector. Vario is a practice group within Pinsent Masons which incorporates; Flexible Services, Consulting and Technology, Legal Project Management and Managed Legal Services (MLS). This role sits within our MLS team.
Our Paralegal Centre of Excellence brings together a range of paralegal skills and capabilities, which provides a variety of services to our practice groups and clients.

As the Vario team grows, we are recruiting Paralegals to deliver a variety of legal work for our clients within a number of practice groups. The role will provide exposure to quality commercial legal work including:

• Document review projects in relation to litigation, cyber incidents, DSARs and employment matters among others
• Due diligence of contracts, lending and security documentation and property documents including leases
• Drafting legal documents and reports
• Trial and Hearing Preparation - Preparing drafts of documents including witness statements, correspondence, forms, applications, schedules and lists
• Transactional Support – including company search reports, security registration, post completion tasks and bibles
• Data room management including uploading documents, redactions, project management and administration
• Undertaking legal research
• General administration tasks and assisting fee earners with other ad-hoc duties

Our standard working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, however, we are happy to consider flexible working requests.