Role: Paralegal
Reports to: Solicitor 
Location: London
Salary: Competitive

The Firm and Role: 

We are partnered with a leading intellectual property firm dedicated to protecting and enforcing their clients’ IP rights.
Together, we are seeking a Paralegal to provide secretarial support to Solicitors with minimal supervision and to undertake both routine and complex paralegal / secretarial duties.

Key Tasks: 

• Preparing letters and formal documents
• Working on agreements
• Attending to daily administration requests for the solicitor such as file management, email filing, scanning and photocopying
• Sending emails on behalf of solicitors
• Completing conflict checks
• Calculating and preparing client invoices, to include debit and credit notes
• Opening and closing case files in the systems, Inprotech and CMS
• Adding and updating deadline dates in Inprotech and diaries
• Completing expenses requests

The Candidate: 

• Previous legal secretarial experience (in any legal discipline) 
• Knowledge or experience of Intellectual Property
• Strong typing and keyboard skills 
• Previous experience of working with digital dictation and audio typing 
• Experience in billing clients and working within a complex billing structure 

Knowledge and skills
• Demonstrates an organised approach to their work
• Familiar with managing and working with key dates
• Strong prioritisation skills gained within a high deadline environment 
• Excellent spelling and grammar 
• Demonstrates strong attention to detail and take pride in producing high quality work 
• Excellent communication skills, particularly written 

If you meet the above criteria, please send your CV.