Paralegal (What’s Market)
Description
We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world's businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.
Business Unit: Legal UKI
Our Legal organisation focuses on connecting our customers’ businesses to the ever-changing legal and regulatory environment. We provide critical online and print information, decision support tools, software and services to lawyers who practice in law firms, in corporate legal departments and in the public sector. We are a growing business in the UK, especially since the acquisition of Practical Law Company in March 2013 and we are very excited about the next stage in our growth and how you can play a part in it.
Paralegal - What's Market (Practical Law Company)
Role purpose:
As a paralegal, you will provide support to the editorial team in the following areas: research, administration, writing summaries of corporate finance transactions and trend awareness updates.
Key activities:
- Carrying out daily trawls of relevant websites and other sources and identifying relevant deal and general meeting announcements and developments of interest to PLC What’s Market subscribers.
- Writing, proofing and publishing summaries of corporate finance transactions for What’s Market.
- Reviewing and proofing materials for What’s Market.
- Carrying out research.
- General administration duties.
Qualifications
Key skills and knowledge
Technical skills:
- Proficient user of Microsoft Office applications.
- A working knowledge of legal research databases.
- Excellent writing skills.
- Accurate proofing skills.
Interpersonal skills:
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to see other people's points of view and take on board feedback.
- Positive attitude and “can do” approach.
- Team player.
Personal skills:
- Highly self-motivated and well organised.
- Good time management skills. Ability to prioritise a varied workload and co-ordinate work from numerous sources.
- Willingness to take instructions from a number of individuals and prioritise.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to work well under pressure to meet tight deadlines.
- Ability to review and assimilate information from a number of different sources.
Personal experience:
- Degree educated, ideally no less than 2.1 and have completed the LPC or equivalent.
- Have an interest in corporate law and regulation, ideally through either work experience or as part of an academic course (although this is not essential).
- The ability to learn quickly and to assimilate complex information.
At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 60,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
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