Legal Operations Paralegal

What you will be doing, includes:

• Under supervision providing support to all lawyers in the team as required but including
  Conducting legal research and providing legal advice in the areas of law applicable to the role
• Preparing and collating documents, correspondence, forms and checklists under supervision of the lawyers. This includes providing marked up red line, clean and comparison documents. Maintaining version control and drafts. Proof reading. Preparing mail and enclosures for dispatch. Obtaining signatures.
• Drafting contracts, amendments to contracts, legal correspondence, and advice notes
• Assisting with managing our legal suppliers, in particular our legal panel firms and liaising with their billing departments.
• Producing reports on monthly spend vs. budget with a view to identifying cost saving opportunities and efficiencies. Processing of Service Request Forms, Purchase Orders and Legal Invoices
• Organising team meetings and create and manage presentations, agenda and actions.
• Legal file management: including the opening, closing, archiving and retrieval of Legal files in accordance with the appropriate procedures.