Paralegal

Our client is seeking a paralegal professional to join their London and/or Newcastle office on a full-time basis.

Your primary responsibilities will include drafting and review of client contracts, conducting legal research, supporting stakeholders in our Digital, Product, Customer Services and Sales teams on ad hoc queries and ensuring the contracts are reflective of pricing models and approved by Finance and Commercial teams.

Our client is a dynamic, fast-paced company, with a fun and collegiate culture. They are creative and focused on delivering unique sales promotions, acting for many recognised global technology brands.

Main Duties

Contracts drafting, review and execution

Prepare NDA’s according to standard templates

Prepare MSA’s, SOW’s and DPA’s using standard templates

Checking client contracts and coordinating the signature process via DocuSign

Implementing contract amendments after consultation with Head of Legal (HoL)

Drafting and managing responses to escalated customer concerns and disputes.

Maintaining the organisation of contracts post-signature and responding to queries from Finance as needed for invoicing

Attending campaign review meetings and flagging legal issues to HoL for follow up

Reaching out to Commercial on behalf of the Legal team and liasing with Sales to ensure consistency between pricing and contract wording before signature

Supporting Project Managers with legal queries around promotions and website build, and wording for consumer facing Terms and Conditions

Compliance: Audits and Risk Management/Reviews

Supporting Compliance with data security and privacy related audits

Supporting Legal and Compliance with vendor onboarding packs

Assisting Customer Services with data privacy queries

Assist on court proceedings - preparing and filing forms

Skills and experience

The ideal candidate will be a proactive individual who works well in a dynamic environment with changing priorities.

Experience and qualities include:

* Law Degree (2:1 or above) from a recognised university is essential

* CILEX Diploma, LPC, SQE or Bar Course or Paralegal certification is desired

* Fluent spoken and written second language (particularly French or Italian) would be beneficial

* Strong working knowledge of data privacy / GDPR

* Familiarity with consumer law and CAP Code

* A basic knowledge and understanding of IP law (preferred)

* Strong research and writing skills (essential)

* Strong contract drafting skills (essential)

* Accuracy and attention to detail (essential)

* Maintain confidentiality (essential)

* Excellent communication skills

* Ability to work effectively in a team and independently (essential).

* Stakeholder management (essential).

* Able to prioritise own workload and flow

* Able to demonstrate sound judgement and decision-making skills.

* Advanced and appropriate IT skills.

Competencies

Autonomy

Works under broad direction and work is often self-initiated

Responsible for contributing to the achievement of departmental goals

Analyses, plans, executes and evaluates work to time, cost and quality targets

Influence

Builds appropriate and effective relationships

Works in collaboration with stakeholders

Monitors progress to ensure customer and user needs are consistently met

Complexity

Performs an extensive range of complex professional work activities

Undertakes work which requires the application of fundamental principles, in a wide and often unpredictable range of contexts

Understands the impact of own specialism, on the wider business requirements

Knowledge

Extensive industry knowledge, both generic and specialist

Actively seeks out new knowledge for professional development

Business Skills

Communicates fluently and can present complex information to a variety of non-legal audiences

Demonstrates continuous improvement and innovation

Advises on the available standards, methods and tools and suggests appropriate alternatives

Maintains an awareness of developments in the industry