Paralegal (12 month FTC)

The Opportunity

Key internal relationships:     

• HSF Partners, lawyers, paralegals, PAs and business services

Key external relationships:     

• NA

Key responsibilities: 
    
The London Finance Division is looking for a paralegal to provide support to our professional support consultants (PSCs), covering energy/project finance, real estate finance, acquisition finance, debt capital markets, general bank lending and restructuring and insolvency work. The PSCs (with the help of the paralegal) also support many of the firm's international offices which advise on English law finance work e.g. Paris, Madrid, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Hong Kong, and Singapore, as well as fee earners who are working on secondment with our banking clients.

Responsibilities shall include:

• Reviewing legal publications and case law on a regular basis, preparing draft summaries;
• Preparing first drafts of internal publications and briefings and coordinating internal distribution;
• Assisting fee earners with research questions which may involve liaising internally with fee earners and professional support lawyers across the firm and in our international offices;
• Assisting fee earners across the Finance division on transactional support in relation to ongoing deals, including proofreading and creating transaction bibles;
• Organising relevant materials and generally assisting with training sessions;
• Monitoring legal and market developments, e.g. ESG and Private Capital;
• Organising and summarising legal know-how materials for uploading onto Libra (the firm’s in-house legal information database) or the Finance internal Gateway site, and generally assisting with the organisation and management of legal know-how materials and market developments relevant to the Finance Division;  
• Assisting with updating of model form documents, proofreading and occasional drafting;
• General assistance where required

Qualifications, skills and experience:

• Law degree or undergraduate degree (ideally 2.1 or first)
• Preferably will have successfully completed LPC/BVC/SQE
• Office administration experience and ideally paralegal work experience
• IT packages (Word, Outlook, etc.) 
• Highly competent with legal research
   

Team

Finance, London HR Alison Gent Level 1

Full time

Location

London

Contract type

Fixed Term Contract

Diversity & Inclusion

At Herbert Smith Freehills you will be part of a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus and highly engaged people are our differentiator. People at our firm come from a range of backgrounds and bring a wide variety of experiences and perspectives to their work with us. We strive to ensure that our inclusive environment means you feel valued and able to perform at your best by being your authentic self at work. We know that our future success not only depends on being innovative and progressive in the changing legal market but, most importantly, on our people feeling highly engaged in meaningful work.

We understand that you have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to create a working environment based on mutual trust and respect, in which you can perform at your best whilst maintaining sustainable balance across your life.