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Department: Managed Legal Services – Managed Legal Services – Shared Legal Resource – Shared Legal Resource – 3806
Employment Type: Permanent – Full Time
Location: Birmingham
Reporting To: Claire Noake
Description
- A culture of trust and empowerment with responsibility and autonomy over your work and the freedom to manage when and how you do it
- The support and encouragement of a great team behind you and friendly partners who all want to help you thrive
- Exposure to excellent development and collaboration within your team
- A competitive package with amazing benefits!
The opportunity
What you will be doing:
- Using legal technology to complete large document review and analysis
- Managing responses to Data Subject Access Requests including redaction in relation to any exemptions under the UK GDPR, tagging and collation of data and maintaining audit records for clients of the process conducted
- Scoping project requests from clients and providing fee estimates for the same
- Creation of checklists, playbooks and guides and training of other fee earners in the team
- Proofreading and reviewing to ensure consistency across contracts and schedules
- Summarising and tracking key terms within contracts
- Analysing and inputting legal data
- E-discovery using litigation support software
- Redaction and pagination
- Lifecycle contract management
- Basic drafting, negotiation and amendments of documents such as NDA’s (non-disclosure agreements) etc
What you will need:
- A minimum of 6 months’ previous experience in a similar role
- Previous experience dealing with Large Document reviews / e-Disclosure
- A good working knowledge of the Data Protection Act 2018 and UK GDPR
- Previous experience using a case management system is preferred, but not essential
- Strong IT skills and accurate typing ability
- Ability to manage and meet deadline
- A high level of accuracy and attention to detail, with excellent verbal and written communication skills
- A high degree of flexibility and initiative along with excellent organisational and prioritising skills; the ability to adapt and manage priorities at short notice is essential
- The ability to manage multiple stakeholders at all levels
- Strong business and commercial acumen is desirable
- Enthusiasm, drive and commitment and to be a strong team player
- Experience/interest in project work in e-disclosure, property or corporate would be desirable
Benefits, Agile Working and Additional information
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Meet the team
The Managed Legal Services team supports Shakespeare Martineau, Lime Solicitors and Corclaim with legal process management, paralegal support, client discovery, due diligence, data intelligence, knowledge management and client management services. The role of this team is to help improve efficiencies and the client experience by supporting our fee earning teams.
Additional information:
Please be aware, for some vacancies, where we receive high numbers of applications we may need to bring the close date forward.
Equal opportunities
Shakespeare Martineau is a committed equal opportunities employer. We seek to attract, develop and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. We value and respect individuality and encourage a culture within our business where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths and experiences. Everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.
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Contact Detail:
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