Paralegal

3 weeks ago

Newcastle, Australia Clifford Chance LLP Full time

JR-5288
- Newcastle
- Paralegal
- Permanent

**Job Description**:
The role of a Paralegal at our Clifford Chance Newcastle office, offers you the chance to work within a range of practice areas which complement the firm's work, ensuring that knowledge, resources, processes, and technology are deployed effectively to support our clients. Our skills and expertise are in great demand. Therefore, we are looking to recruit additional Paralegals to join the highly experienced, innovative, and client-centric team.

**The Role**

**Key Responsibilities**
- Ensuring your work is accurate and thorough at all times
- Accurately updating internal tracking systems
- Being proactive about continuous improvement, systems and processes
- Integrating legal technology into our processes and advancing your skills in this area as much as possible
- Working efficiently and effectively within a team
- Providing timely updates as to work progress
- Communicating effectively at all times
- Playing a role in developing and representing the culture of the Newcastle Office and ensuring that we offer a diverse and inclusive workplace that is welcoming and supportive to all.

**What You Will Do**

You will undertake a multitude of tasks for a range of practice areas, as mentioned above, including but not limited to;
- Due diligence
- Reviewing/ drafting NDA's and commercial contracts
- Verifying prospectuses and investor presentations
- Drafting transaction documents and letters
- Reviewing pre and post-completion work
- Assisting with collation and preparation of conditions precedent
- Contract reviews
- Preparing transaction bibles
- Proofreading/checking cross-referencing
- Redacting
- Preparing precedents
- Preparing bundles and chronologies
- E-disclosure
- You will use the latest legal technology for service delivery including Kira, High Q, Relativity and Contract Companion
- Other administrative tasks as and when required

**How We Will Support You**

You will be given the opportunity to get involved in a range on internal training which covers:

- Legal Technology
- Process Improvement
- Various online training specific to the role of a paralegal, lawyer, manager etc.
- Legal Training

**Qualifications**:
**Your Career Experience So Far**

You will possess the following skills:

- Ideally previous experience of working in an office or corporate environment
- Flexible and effective verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent research capabilities with the ability to follow detailed instructions and produce complex findings
- Proactive and forward thinking
- Flexible and have desire to learn
- Organised and efficient - ability to meet; daily, weekly and monthly deadlines
- Good academics - you will be a graduate (any discipline, non-law degrees accepted) or have completed a CILEx level 3 (or above) qualification in Law.
- Excellent attention to detail
- Very good team player

Company Description

**Who we are**

We are one of the largest international law firms in the world. With over 30 offices across the globe, we strive to exceed the expectations of our clients, providing them with the highest-quality advice and legal insight, which combines the firm’s global standards with in-depth local expertise.

Our firm, work and people span jurisdictions, cultures, and languages. We offer our clients a truly international perspective. We believe every career should be rewarding and stimulating - full of opportunities to learn, thrive, and grow. That’s why we’re so proud of our inclusive, friendly, and team-based approach to work.

Our one firm global strategy is focused on targeted growth led by the needs of our core clients, those who we can best support with the breadth and depth of Clifford Chance expertise, across the sectors and geographies, which matter most to them.

You’ll find our clients in commercial and industrial sectors, the financial investor community, governments, regulators, trade bodies, and not-for-profit organisations. But no matter who they are or why they’ve reached out to us, we provide a world-class service every step of the way. And that’s possible thanks to the entrepreneurial spirit and conscientious approach to work that you’ll find across all of our teams.

Whichever area of the business you join, you’ll become an integral part an innovative, diverse and ambitious team of people. Clifford Chance is a place where the brightest minds and the best of colleagues meet.

**The Newcastle Office**

The team in Newcastle is the perfect complement to the firm's work, ensuring that knowledge, resources, processes, and legal technology are deployed effectively to service our clients. Our skills and expertise are widely used across the firm.

The Newcastle office is made up of a range of practice areas which are; Global Financial Markets, Corporate, Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Real Estate, Capital Markets & Funds. As a Paralegal based within the Newcastle office, you will work on a range of

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