paralegal Leeds, England
Elevate
Full Time
Leeds, England
25693 - 20193 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Overview
As a member of the Transactional Legal Services Team dedicated to Reed Smith LLP responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Due Diligence of legal documents relating to corporate and financial transactions.
- Creating and managing data rooms.
- Completion work including DocuSign.
- Drafting legal documents using precedents.
- Amending and redacting legal documents.
- Preparing bibles and drafting indices.
- Working closely with Reed Smith fee earners to provide general, ad hoc support under instruction.
- Identifying opportunities to improve legal processes and articulating the case for making the change.
- Ensuring the quick and efficient delivery of work to meet strict deadlines.
- Working flexibly and actively seeking opportunities to learn new legal processes including working with legal technology.
Responsibilities & Qualifications
Skills and Attributes:
Performance Improvement
- Superb analytical skills
- Enjoys working as a part of a team and adapts working styles to fostering a spirit of team working.
- Comfortable with change and embraces opportunities to work faster and smarter.
- Case/project management skills, attention to detail, and the ability to meet tight deadlines without sacrificing the quality of client service.
- Resilience under pressure and motivated by accountability and the desire to meet or exceed objectives and deadlines.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to build relationships.
- Comfortable and capable of working proactively in a global organization.
- Reliable, meets deadlines and anticipates problems.
- Takes personal ownership of self-improvement.
- Ability to quickly master new software and work with technology.
Performance Improvement
- Provide feedback and identify opportunities for improvement of processes or the use of technology.
- As a team, work with your manager to design initiatives that will drive measurable improvements in quality, speed, and efficiency.
- Welcomes mistakes or errors as opportunities for improving business processes.
Experience/Skills/Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
- Fluent in standard MS Office applications
- Interest in delivering legal services, continuous improvement and working with
- technology
- Languages highly desirable (particularly fluent French, German, Spanish and Russian)
Development:
- Participate in team meetings.
- Attend internal training and external training as and when required.
- Contribute freely and creatively to business improvement projects.
Company Information
Company Information
Elevate is a law company. We provide software and services for the intersection of business and law. Our legal, business, and technology professionals offer practical ways for global law departments and law firms to improve efficiency, quality, and business outcomes.
Our most recent achievements and distinctions include:
- For the seventh consecutive year, in 2022, Chambers & Partners named Elevate as a Top Global Services Provider, ranking us as Band 1 (highest ranking) in all applicable categories (Contract Lifecycle Management, Litigation Services, and Flexible Legal Staffing)
- Co-winner, 2022 Financial Times Collaborative Innovation Award for Industry Impact
- Winner, Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, and 2016
- Named by ALM Intelligence as the only Pacesetter in the Legal category in its 2021-2022 Legal Department Legal Operations report
- The first non-lawyer-owned global legal services provider to receive an Alternative Business Structure (ABS) License to provide legal services in the US
