Knowledge Paralegal Newcastle upon Tyne
Job description
Practice Group / Department: Knowledge Practice Management - London Job Description We're Norton Rose Fulbright - a global law firm with over 50 offices and 7,000 employees worldwide. We provide the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. As well as the relevant skills and experience, we're looking for people who are innovative, commercial and value the work that they do. To attract the best people, we strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can bring their whole selves to work, have a sense of belonging, and realize their full career potential. We value difference and actively promote a culture of respect for each individual, encouraging and creating inclusion. Our new hybrid working model allows our people to have more flexibility in the way they choose to work from both the office and a remote location, while continuing to deliver the highest standards of service. We offer a range of family friendly and inclusive employment policies and provide access to programmes and services aimed at nurturing our people’s health and overall wellbeing. Our Newcastle office is currently recruiting for a paralegal for our Knowledge Team. As well as the relevant skills and experience, we’re looking for someone who is innovative, commercial and values the work that they do. We celebrate multiple approaches and points of view and believe diversity drives innovation, so we’re building a culture where difference is valued. Our clients come first and whilst we expect the best from all our employees, in return we offer an exceptionally competitive pension, private healthcare, plus a range of flexible benefits. The Team Knowledge plays a critical strategic role at Norton Rose Fulbright, ensuring that every client in every matter benefits from the collective knowledge and experience of the whole organisation. The team of knowledge professionals support the firm in delivering the highest standards of legal service to our clients through state-of-the-art template legal documents, thought leadership delivered by subject-matter experts and the application of technology to legal practice. The EMEA Knowledge Team at Norton Rose Fulbright is a highly-regarded, established team of knowledge lawyers, knowledge managers, paralegals and systems specialists. The paralegal we are looking to recruit in our Newcastle office will support our EMEA Knowledge Team who provide essential legal support to the firm and to its clients including undertaking legal research on behalf of knowledge lawyers, assisting with the preparation and administering of legal training for our lawyers and for our clients, drafting client-facing publications and short legal summaries to be used on blogs and other forms of thought-leadership, assistance with editing and maintaining template documents (including precedents and guidance notes), monitoring market practice in particular areas, assisting fee earners on transactional work queries and providing support with the maintenance of internal knowledge systems, such as our information database and intranet sites. The Role You will work as part of a highly motivated support team to provide professional, proactive, legal and administrative work to support the wider Knowledge Team. You will be one of three knowledge paralegals supporting the EMEA knowledge team. Summary of the tasks you will undertake Providing support with legal research and drafting legal documents including Undertaking ad-hoc legal research to support knowledge lawyers with technical queries Researching legal content to be included in knowledge publications General proofreading of internal and external documents Monitoring market practice/developments in particular areas Administration of internal knowledge systems including Maintaining knowledge intranet pages Completing requests for work to be delivered through online systems Administration of knowledge products and publications including Assisting with amendments and drafting of template documents, practice notes and checklists Inputting data for legal technology products such as Bryter, HighQ, etc Maintaining content of online knowledge products Support with drafting projects including Writing short summaries of legal and regulatory developments for knowledge products Preparing regulatory and other internal newsletters Preparing and editing client bulletins Producing and maintaining client cross-border guides Support with client and internal training including Preparing PowerPoint slide decks on instruction from knowledge lawyers Assisting with Training administration Additional support to senior knowledge team including Minor project management tasks (supervised by knowledge lawyers) Other duties as reasonably requested Skills and attributes required Excellent organisational and prioritising skills Interest in commercial law and practice Ability to take instructions from, and interact with, different people at different levels in the business Ability to work under pressure and deliver work to a high standard Demonstrating a practical approach to problem solving Maintaining a professional attitude at all times Ability to keep information confidential Ability to build relationships and confidence to liaise with others within the firm Education/training/experience and qualities Law graduate with good research skills (essential) Excellent written English (essential) Attention to detail (essential) Ability to work independently and manage own projects and deadlines (essential) Some legal experience desirable (but not essential) Sound IT skills, including good working knowledge of Word, PowerPoint and Excel (SharePoint an advantage) Diversity, Equity and Inclusion To attract the best people, we strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can bring their whole selves to work, have a sense of belonging, and realize their full career potential. Our new enabled work model allows our people to have more flexibility in the way they choose to work from both the office and a remote location, while continuing to deliver the highest standards of service. We offer a range of family friendly and inclusive employment policies and provide access to programmes and services aimed at nurturing our people’s health and overall wellbeing. Find more about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion here. We are an equal opportunities employer. We can make tailored adjustments to our application process to ensure that you have the best chance of success by working with you individually to understand more about your requirements. Please contact our Recruitment team on [email protected]
