Paralegal - Regulatory and Compliance

Are you an experienced paralegal interested in developing a great career and looking for a new challenge? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

We can offer you:

• 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!

Meet the team

Our Managed Legal Services team has built a flexible legal resource model that can provide an extension to clients’ legal, audit or information governance teams. We work with our clients on either a temporary or a regular basis. The team comprises of paralegals, solicitors, project managers and legal technologists who support clients with a range of business needs across an array of practice areas.

The opportunity

Our Managed Legal Services team is growing rapidly and as a result we have a number of new roles for enthusiastic and driven paralegals. This role’s primary focus will be in regulatory and compliance. Additionally, there will be opportunities to provide support in other areas within the Managed Legal Services team as and when needed. There are truly amazing and real career opportunities for you if you are looking to gain broad ranging experience that will help develop your legal career. You will support a busy team in delivering crisis focussed solutions for regulatory clients. This will entail exposure to a wide range of legal disciplines. On a day-to-day basis, your work will be varied and challenging. This is an opportunity to work as part of a large team both in the office and out on site. This role would suit someone with a tenacious and resilient approach to problem solving, who enjoys and works well in a fast‑paced environment. You will have exposure to hands‑on work from day one and will play a key role in a thriving team who provide a high‑quality service at all times.

What you will be doing:

• Managing written and oral communication with third parties
• Managing reporting obligations to include updating clients
• Drafting documents including pleadings, training materials and client reports
• Using persuasive language to negotiate preferable outcomes for clients
• Proofreading to ensure consistency across documents
• Analysing documents and summarising key legal principles
• Reviewing and analysing legal entitlement to documentation
• Applying key legal principles to an agreed course of action

What you will need:

• Minimum of 6 months’ previous experience in a similar role
• Previous experience in a regulatory and compliance role is desirable
• Previous experience using a case management system
• Strong IT skills and accurate typing ability
• Ability to manage and meet deadlines
• 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

Benefits, Agile Working and Additional information

We embrace agile working and offer a blended approach to where and how we work. We appreciate that people have different needs and preferences and we’re keen to be flexible, after all, we value what you do, not where you do it. We have the following hubs across the UK: Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, Leicester, Lincoln, London, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Sheffield, Solihull, Stratford upon Avon & Tunbridge Wells.

Want to find out more about our amazing benefits?

Additional information: Please be aware, for some vacancies, where we receive high numbers of applications we may need to bring the close date forward. Due to the nature of the work undertaken, confirmation of employment will be subject to a variety of checks which will be carried out once an offer of employment is accepted. Details of the checks can be found here.

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.