Legal Support Professional

4 weeks ago


Perth, Australia A&O Shearman Full time

A&O Shearman is a new global industry-leading law firm, with nearly 50 offices in 29 countries worldwide. Our fluency in English law, US law, and the laws of the world’s most dynamic markets, enables us to provide unmatched insight and seamless delivery to clients. We work on challenging and important deals and disputes that have the potential to shape the future.

We offer exceptional opportunities for our people; opportunities to work for the world’s leading businesses; to transform the status quo, and to deliver your best work, helping you and your career to thrive, while delivering unparalleled outcomes for our clients.

Whether you're helping clients solve complex challenges, transforming the ways we manage our business, or ensuring the smooth-running of our operations, this is an environment where you can belong and excel. We provide first-rate training and development, we are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and we provide support and ways of working that help you optimise your wellbeing.

What truly defines a career with us? We recruit the best and ask for the best of you. And together, we will redefine success.

**Advanced Delivery - Legal, Perth and overview of role**

The ADL plays a key role in the project management of a matter through the use of the latest legal technology tools that results in a more advanced approach to the provision of legal advice and services. The team comprises of Legal Support Professionals and Junior Associates who are given world class ongoing professional development, legal career pathways and training opportunities, supported and supervised by highly experienced Managing and Senior Associates.

As a Legal Support Professional, you would operate as a generalist across a wide range of A&O Shearman practice areas throughout the world including: International Capital Markets, Corporate, Disputes, Banking, and Intellectual Property. The work you undertake could involve a wide range of projects in multiple jurisdictions. On a typical day, you could be reviewing disclosure in litigation proceedings for the Luxembourg office, preparing documents for a banking syndicate under instruction from associates in Hong Kong, as well as performing due diligence reviews on high profile matters for our London office.

**Training**
Upon commencement at A&O Shearman you will be provided with an extensive induction training program and on-going learning and development. This includes our world class university of law training module which will run for six weeks upon commencement provided by A&O Shearman. This will help equip you with the skills and knowledge to work across our jurisdictions.

**Role and Responsibilities**
- Due diligence exercises (primarily extracting information)
- Becoming proficient in Litigation e-Discovery platforms
- Preparing bank syndicate lending documentation
- Company searches and corporate reviews
- Joining product group-specific teams, e.g. company incorporations and ICM checklists
- Conducting document review for litigation/arbitration proceedings or regulatory/internal investigations
- Working with Legal Technology generally - testing/trialling tools and pipeline technology
- Legal research

**Key Requirements**
- Completed law degree or close to completion and available to work full time from February 2025
- Complete a six week business law training module and passing the related exam upon commencement (provided by A&O Shearman)
- A professional manner with high levels of commercial awareness, analytical skills and critical thinking
- Details-focused and self-motivated
- Team player with appropriate interpersonal skills
- Strong time management and organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple deadlines



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