Knowledge Paralegal - Restructuring & Insolvency (12 month FTC)

ROLE OVERVIEW // We are recruiting for a Knowledge Paralegal to join the Restructuring & Insolvency team, which is part of the Financing Group. The Financing Group acts for a broad range of clients and handles a variety of types of work. The group encompasses a number of practice areas including loan finance, debt capital markets, securitisation, derivatives and restructuring and insolvency. This role will be focused on restructuring and insolvency work. You will be working closely alongside the Knowledge Counsel in the Restructuring & Insolvency team but may also be liaising with partners, associates, trainees and members of the Business Services team across the Financing Group as a whole and elsewhere in the firm.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES // The key responsibilities of this role are set out below and there may be others which are not listed. You may be required on occasion to work outside our normal working hours of 9:30am to 5:30pm.

• Monitoring legal and market developments
• Assisting with the production of restructuring and insolvency updates
• Supporting business development initiatives
• Legal and market research
• Updating the practice intranet site
• Gathering know-how and precedents and uploading to the know how systems
• Organising team meetings and training sessions
• Assisting with queries from fee earners
• Assisting with legal tech projects
• If required, assisting with certain fee earning tasks

CANDIDATE PROFILE // Candidates for this position will be expected to have worked, or be working, in a similar role within a professional services environment, but that is not essential. However, an interest in, and the enthusiasm to develop knowledge of restructuring and insolvency, is essential. We also require candidates to have:

• Strong academic and legal background
• Excellent organisational skills
• Self-motivated and able to work independently and pro-actively
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Strong oral and written communications skills
• Excellent eye for detail
• Excellent legal technical knowledge
• Ability to pick up new legal concepts quickly
• Good IT skills and an ability to learn new IT systems quickly
• Experience of working in a diverse team whilst fostering an inclusive team culture
• High level of professionalism and integrity; displays the highest standard of professional ethics

You will also be expected to display the attributes set out under the firm’s Key Behaviours for Business Services staff for this level of role. Below are the most relevant for this role:

• Technical & professional expertise
• Service excellence
• Drive to deliver
• Analysis & judgement
• Communication & influence
• Working with others
• Leading & managing people
• Resilience