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Paralegal

Paralegal London, England

RICS
Full Time London, England 25675 - 38590 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

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 Achievements & 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 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

    • Additional Information

    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.

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    Paralegal
    RICS

    www.rics.org
    London, United Kingdom
    Richard Collins
    Unknown / Non-Applicable
    501 to 1000 Employees
    Non-profit Organisation
    Membership Organisations
    Management & Consulting
    1868
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