Legal Analyst in Belfast

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer is a world-leading global law firm, where our ambition is to help you achieve your goals. Exceptional client service and the pursuit of excellence are at our core. We invest in and care about our client relationships, which is why so many are longstanding. We enjoy breaking new ground, as we have for over 170 years.

As a fully integrated transatlantic and transpacific firm, we are where you need us to be. Our footprint is extensive and committed across the world’s largest markets, key financial centres and major growth hubs. At our best tackling complexity and navigating change, we work alongside you on demanding litigation, exacting regulatory work and complex public and private market transactions. We are recognised as leading in these areas.

We are immersed in the sectors and challenges that impact you. We are recognised as standing apart in energy, infrastructure and resources. And we’re focused on areas of growth that affect every business across the world. All of this is achieved by supporting the growth of our people, who help us deliver on our ambition – which is to help you achieve yours.

The Opportunity

Digital adaption is presenting businesses with efficiencies and opportunities at pace – Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer is no different. Continuing to support our clients with this rapid change, we have created a team of the best analytical legal minds with investments in cutting-edge technology and technologists in our Digital Legal Delivery (Digital) practice.

Bringing together legal, process design and technology expertise, our Digital group supports businesses who need invention from their legal advisors. Leveraging experience to map the intersections where people and tech deliver results, this team supports businesses undergoing their own digitisation projects and those who seek disentanglement from the manual and inefficient processes in the delivery of legal services. Experienced at delivering large and complex legal services, we are experts in the delivery of data-intensive mandates.

Imagining possibilities, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer’s Digital Legal Delivery practice is implementing the best technology solutions today, while horizon scanning and experimenting with emerging technologies to understand their practical applications.

Legal Analysts are part of our legal team, working closely with highly experienced senior Disputes lawyers on the delivery of client work within the Disputes practice group of Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer’s Digital Legal Delivery practice group. This role offers a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of disputes law, data, and technology. Legal Analysts in this team are not only delivering high-quality legal work but are actively contributing to the evolution of how disputes are delivered through digital, data-led and AI-enabled approaches.

The role will be based in our Belfast office however you will regularly be working as part of a global Digital Legal Delivery team. Opportunities can arise from time to time for Legal Analysts to be selected to go on business trips and secondments, usually to our London office.

As part of the Belfast Digital Legal Delivery Disputes team, you will be invited to Learning and Development sessions which focus on both legal training and soft-skills such as drafting and presentations skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Conducting work, under the supervision of senior Disputes lawyers, on large-scale contentious matters. This may include but is not limited to documentary analysis and reporting on large-scale contentious matters or supporting the efficient management of large-scale claims and investigations through consistent, high-quality analysis, with performance measured against agreed productivity and quality benchmarks.
• Maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of relevant areas of law to the Digital Legal Delivery Disputes practice.
• Ensuring compliance with financial disciplines on matters (e.g. daily time-recording).

Qualifications, skills and experience

Essential

• Law graduate (2:1 or above) or a post-graduate qualification in law with a minimum of 3 A levels (ideally B grades and above).
• Ability to review, analyse and organise documentary and factual evidence.
• Aptitude for learning (and becoming proficient in) the use of software and IT Applications.
• An innovative mindset, with a strong interest in applying AI (including generative AI) and legal technology tools to improve legal service delivery.

Desirable

• 6 months to a year’s work experience in an office-based environment.
• Fluency in a second language with an ability to translate legal documents into English. Western European languages an advantage, but other languages (e.g. Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Korean or Russian) especially desirable.

We are committed to attracting people from all backgrounds and creating a respectful and inclusive culture where everyone thrives. We see this as essential to our success, including our ability to innovate and achieve sustained high performance. This is a key part of our Values—Human, Bold, and Outstanding.