Paralegal - UKI - Legal -Permanent - Birmingham

Job description

 

Paralegal (Birmingham) 

Background

EY is a global network of professional services firms engaged in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. The UK organisation is a part of Ernst & Young Global, which has member firms with offices in more than 150 countries worldwide. The UK firm of Ernst & Young LLP has over 700 partners and employs over 13,000 colleagues.

The Legal Team

The UK Legal team is well established and highly regarded within the organisation. It is led by a partner who is General Counsel (who is also Managing Partner, Risk Management) and by two Deputy General Counsels and includes a team of twenty other lawyers and two paralegals. The Legal team is at the forefront of helping the firm to meet its strategic goals.

The work within the Legal team is highly varied and covers all legal issues arising from the running of a professional services business, including litigation, regulatory, intellectual property, general commercial, tortious and contractual matters. Much of the legal work is at the cutting edge of business practice as the firm constantly finds innovative ways to help our clients’ businesses. 

The Role

The paralegal will be an integral part of the UK Legal Team. The role will involve providing day to day assistance to the lawyers in order to help the UK Legal team to operate with maximum efficiency.

Your key responsibilities

 

The main responsibilities of the role will include:

 

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General administrative assistance such as: managing bills/invoicing; filing (including file opening and archiving); organising couriers; booking meeting rooms; proof reading and similar requests.

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Assistance with new workflow tool (KIM) working closely with the lawyers and the business to help implement it and use it efficiently

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Assistance with contentious matters e.g. creating bundles of documents, retrieving files, coordinating with EY business colleagues to locate documents, first level review of documents, filing documents etc.

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Helping to administer the issue of document preservation notices and privilege reminders - answering queries and tracking whether people have received/answered them.

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Assisting the lawyers when they are advising on, drafting and negotiating client matters including contracts, master service agreements and tenders.

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Assisting the lawyers with the initial review/drafting of tenders, lower value procurement contracts, NDAs etc.

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Research and initial review of queries on standard terms and conditions (using approved internal guidance) supervised by relevant lawyer as necessary and up to agreed levels of risk and complexity.

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Management of internal know-how database and internal library.

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Helping to track/co-ordinate updates on significant legal developments/cases and draft updates.

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Legal research for the lawyers on a variety of queries and matters.

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Organising training and assisting with the production of slides/hand-outs where the team is delivering training or consistency sessions, or is receiving training.

Skills and attributes for success

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Strong personal communication skills, including oral/written communication, capable of dealing with wide range of people.

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Strong organisation, planning and project management skills

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To qualify for the role you must have

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Law degree or non-law degree followed by GDL plus, ideally, LPC (or BPTC)

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Previous experience as a paralegal preferred but not essential

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Good IT skills including Microsoft office and Excel

Ideally, you’ll also have

 

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The ability to keep calm in a crisis and to cope well with conflicting deadlines.

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The ability to deal with problems in a practical and common sense way.

What we look for

 

·      An ambitious Individual who is keen to make a real difference.

 

 

 

What working at EY offers

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer: 

·  Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
·  Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
·  The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

 

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

 

Please note

Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. Read more about our commitment to diversity & inclusiveness here . We ask because it matters!

 

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

 

Join us in building a better working world. 

 

Apply now.