Paralegal London, England
Job description
Paralegal
Location: London on a hybrid basis – Typically 60% in the office
Job type: Permanent
Job Purpose
Supporting RICS’ central legal team in the effective delivery of high-quality, responsive, solution focused and commercially minded legal advice across a full range of legal issues globally.
This will provide an excellent opportunity to develop and progress within an experienced and supportive in-house legal team.
Key Responsibilities
- Supporting the team in managing workload, instructions and priorities by actively managing and triaging the legal inbox, diarising key dates, and keeping trackers and pipelines up to date
- Supporting the development of a legal intranet site, its content, and maintaining the site to ensure it remains up to date and a ‘go to’ resource for the business
- Managing the expansion of RICS’ contract database to become a corporate record of all agreements with third parties, review materials provided as part of a recent contract amnesty and ensure that final signed copies of all agreements are uploaded to the central record
- Assisting the team in developing legal process with the aim of streamlining and making legal support more accessible and responsive
- Assisting with the protection of RICS’ large global trademark portfolio, including issuing cease and desist correspondence
- Conducting legal research on a wide range of legal issues, drafting summaries and providing advice
- Assisting with the management of RICS’ legal services panel
- Working with the Finance team to ensure purchase orders are raised and invoices for external legal advisors are processed in a timely manner
- Working with procurement to ensure new legal suppliers are set up appropriately
- With support where required, responding to legal queries, drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts and conducting a range of contentious matters
- Staying abreast of relevant legal developments, updating the team on the same and drafting content of interest for colleagues and members
- Assisting the Privacy team on data privacy matters as and when required
Experience / Skills Required
- Undergraduate degree educated
- An understanding and appreciation of the law either through education or previous experience
- Strong oral and written communications skills
- Proactive, problem-solving attitude
- Previous experience of working in an in-house legal function or law firm desirable but not essential
Who Are We?
As a globally recognised professional body, everything we do is designed to effect positive change in the built and natural environments.
Through our respected global standards, leading professional progression and our trusted data and insight, we promote and enforce the highest professional standards in the development and management of land, real estate, construction and infrastructure. Our work with others provides a foundation for confident markets, pioneers better places to live and work and is a force for positive social impact.
With over 134,000 highly qualified trainees and professionals, and offices in every significant financial market, we are ideally placed to influence policy and embed our standards within local marketplaces in order to protect consumers and businesses. In doing so, we can innovate and progress the development of spaces and places so they are fit for future generations, in addition to the challenges faced in the present.
Benefits
- Hybrid Working (typically 60% office based)
- Private Medical Insurance
- Income protection
- Life assurance
- Aviva Group Personal Pension (matched to 9%)
RICS is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage qualified candidates from a wide array of backgrounds to apply because we know that it’s the differences in our people that make the difference to our performance.
We are committed to ensuring that all candidates have an equally positive experience, and equal chances for success regardless of any personal characteristics. Please speak to us if we can support you with any adjustments to our recruitment process.
Please make sure you have the correct right to work in the country the role resides in.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Life insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: Hybrid remote in London, SW1P 3AD
