Role: Paralegal Assistant
Reports to: Patent Attorney and Senior Paralegal
Location: London
Salary: Competitive

The Firm and Role: 

We are partnered with a leading intellectual property firm, with a strong presence in UK and Munich, who are seeking a Patent Paralegal Assistant to join their team. 
The main function is to assist with administrative tasks, enabling the paralegals to spend time on more complex paralegal work.

Key Tasks: 

• Assisting paralegals with administrative tasks including the filing and acknowledgment of emails.
• Providing secretarial support including preparing specification amendments (electronically in Microsoft Word or manual amendments from paper copies), generating standard letters and invoices.
• Creating, running and amending standard and ad hoc reports in excel.
• Uploading documents to in-house and client specific systems.
• Under supervision, helping with daily and weekly reminders, allocating them to the correct Patent Attorneys or Paralegals.
• Completing set tasks, remembering to amend according to client peculiarities and the specifics of the matter when necessary.
• Assisting paralegals to meet urgent internal and legal deadlines.

Person Specification:

• Experience of working in a role where high levels of concentration and meticulous attention to detail is desirable.
• Ability to work in a methodical manner and adopt a logical approach to individual tasks.
• Ability to move to different stages in the process to complete each task assigned.
• Experience of working to and meeting tight deadlines in an administrative environment.
  
• Ability to prioritise and manage fluctuating workloads, demands and deadlines.
• Willing and eager to learn with the ability to complete tasks as instructed.

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