Paralegal

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a paralegal to join a small in-house legal team in the marketing services industry in London.

LEWIS PR is a fast moving global communications agency with a global footprint of 28 offices, 500 employees and growing rapidly. The paralegal will be given responsibility and exposure to a range of commercial legal activity, under the guidance of the company’s head of legal and business affairs.

This position requires the candidate to:

• Assist in the drafting and negotiation of client service agreements across the UK, EMEA, US and APAC.
• Assist in the drafting and negotiation of a variety of commercial contracts with suppliers, partners and other third parties.
• Assist in researching and advising on global marketing laws.
• Assist in researching and advising on intellectual property (in particular, copyright), real property, employment laws and other laws relevant to the business.
• Assist with the renewal of company insurance policies
• Assist with developing company and employee policies
• Maintain and further develop the existing global contract management systems
• Work closely with the finance team and other staff internationally and provide a high level of service to the group
• Administrative work with respect to the legal team
• Ad hoc legal duties as required

Qualifications and requirements

• Minimum 2.1 law degree classification (or a 2.1 non-law degree and the GDL), LPC completion desirable.
• Proven experience in a legal role either within a law firm, or within a commercial in-house environment
• Proven experience in negotiating and drafting client and supplier contracts
• Excellent legal research skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills, confident and an ability to communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels
• Ability to prioritise work, multi task and work to tight deadlines
• Team player but comfortable working on own initiative
• IT literate with competence of MS Word and strong working knowledge of Excel
• Experience or qualifications in foreign legal jurisdictions (US or Germany in particular) beneficial but not essential
• Other spoken languages beneficial but not essential
• Proven experience of the public relations, media or technology sectors would be advantageous but not essential

If interested, please apply directly here.