Complex Commercial Litigation Paralegal (6- 12 month fixed term contract)

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Job Title

Paralegal (6 to 12 month fixed term contract)

Department

Complex Commercial Litigation

Office Location

London

Reports To

Group Manager

Working Hours

35 hours per week, 9:30am to 5:30pm but additional hours may be required.  We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns.  Our approach to hybrid working allows for up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the office, please contact a member of the recruitment team to discuss further.

Firm Description

Hogan Lovells is one of the leading global law firms.  Our distinctive market position is founded on our exceptional breadth of our practice, on deep industry knowledge, and on our 'one team' global approach.  Formed through the combination of two top international law firms, Hogan Lovells has over 40 offices in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. 

With a presence in the world's major financial and commercial markets, we are well placed to provide excellent business-oriented advice to our clients locally and internationally.  Our people are the key to our success, which is why we seek to recruit and retain the most talented individuals in all regions of our global practice.

Department Description

Hogan Lovells’ award winning LAE practice is a global litigation powerhouse that gets the best results for its clients. Its industry knowledge and strategic insight ensure that litigation serves the best interests of the world's leading companies. We have appeared in more cases in the English courts than any other firm. We also appear in the courts of every other major jurisdiction from the Supreme Court of the United States to the DIFC courts in Dubai to the High Court in Hong Kong. 

Our Complex Commercial Litigation team in London handles a wide variety of commercial and corporate litigation matters, with a particular focus on complex multi-jurisdictional commercial disputes, joint venture disputes, shareholders disputes, large-scale professional negligence claims and bankruptcy litigation. The practice is very busy with a significant caseload and pipeline, and is looking for dynamic team players to add to its growing practice.

The team is ranked in “Band 1” for Commercial Litigation in all the leading directories. Our work also routinely attracts press coverage (both trade publications and nationally), and wins awards. 

Representative Experience

• Acting for BAT Industries in various sets of proceedings arising from the US$1 billion clean-up of the Fox River in the U.S., including proceedings brought by BAT against PwC in the High Court and against Sequana S.A in the Supreme Court in relation to the payment of around US$800 million in dividends by Windward Prospects Ltd to Sequana.

• Acting for a Swiss headquartered oil trading company in its defence of a significant Commercial Court claim concerning a disputed Contract of Affreightment. 

• Acting for one of the world’s leading manufacturers of automotive parts in a High Court claim against one of its suppliers.

• Acting for a global pharmaceutical company in a dispute relating to the development of new medicinal products.

• Acting for a large global mobile network operator and its UK subsidiary in respect of a competition claim brought by an indirect distributor of mobile phone connections against all of the large mobile network operators in the UK.

• Acting for the administrators of one of the Lehman Group entities following the fall-out of the Lehman Group collapse, in two separate applications to determine the relative priority of various subordinated debts in its estate and in the estate of another Lehman Group subsidiary, as well as advising on the administration more generally.

Role Overview

The paralegal position sits within our complex commercial litigation team and will be supporting a team of lawyers with trial preparation.

Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities

• Assist with document review and due diligence;
• Prepare trial or hearing bundles;
• Assist with project work for the firm;
• Draft, check and amend legal documents;
• Liaise with internal and external counsel, within the UK and globally;
• Write concise memoranda to summarize research results;
• Maintain document, transcript, and work product databases;
• Conduct legal research; and
• Maintain confidentiality of client information

Specific duties or responsibilities may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changes in personnel and management structure, staff location or services.

All members of the firm participate in our Responsible Business program.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

• 6 months plus of paralegal fee earning experience from a strong commercial litigation practice;
• Prior experience with trial preparation;
• Law degree or equivalent qualification is essential; and
• LPC qualified is preferred, but candidates with strong paralegal experience will also be considered.

Agile Working Statement

Our goal is to embed flexibility across our business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.

Equal Opportunities Employment Statement

It is the policy of Hogan Lovells to provide equal opportunities for all employees in relation to recruitment, training and promotion.  Decisions in these areas will be made only by reference to the requirements of the job and shall not be influenced by any consideration of racial or ethnic origin, religion, sex , gender and gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital and civil partnership status, pregnancy or disability.