Paralegal - Corporate & Commercial

Job Introduction

This is a fantastic unique opportunity for a Paralegal to join a growing Corporate & Commercial team.

The Paralegal's primary responsibility would be to provide transactional support to fee earners across the Corporate & Commercial team. The Bristol based team is the cornerstone of a very successful corporate and commercial cluster (turnover £5m, 27 lawyers), which has produced highly profitable year on year growth in the last three years. The cluster is led by a group of nine partners who have established a vibrant and inclusive business development culture which encourages and rewards team contribution.

Our clients are blue chip corporates, institutional investors and growth businesses (often technology or IP-driven). Our work encompasses mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, general commercial, IT outsourcing and procurement and contentious and non-contentious IP.

We are a friendly and open team striving to provide our clients with a modern and pragmatic legal service. We value initiative, confidence and intellectual rigour. Non-legal career experience is welcome. Ambition and a willingness to join the team and learn and grow with it are essential.

Role Responsibility

• Provides a high level of client service including responding to ad hoc information, document preparation and research requests.
• Develops an understanding of the client's and our business and how the two fit together.
• Works on matters of high value and quality in sensitive and complex environments.
• Works to deadlines, prioritises workload and meets conflicting demands on time.
• Works with appropriate levels of supervision, recognising matters for escalation.
• Drafts correspondence and legal documents.
• Provides ad hoc support to fee earners across the team including general administration (may include some photocopying, scanning and faxing).
• Contributes to non fee-earning activity: training, preparing client updates, knowledge sharing.

The Ideal Candidate

• The successful candidate will ideally have completed their LPC.
• Strong technical skills and an ability to understand and work through complex issues.
• A demonstrable ability to adopt a commercial perspective rather than an ‘academic’ approach to legal issues and to be highly client focused.
• Ability to operate with a high level of self-sufficiency, combined with an awareness of the boundaries of own competence/authority.
• Team oriented and collegiate.
• Strong organisation skills to ensure a pragmatic and methodical approach to handling a variety of Corporate matters simultaneously.
• Change-oriented with a positive, flexible approach towards the implementation of new initiatives.
• Able to handle a complex and constantly changing workload and to work under pressure.
• Detail conscious with a concern for quality.

About the Company

We are a leading international legal business with over 2,400 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We have 11 offices in the UK as well as offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Singapore, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Miami. We also have associations/alliances with firms in Northern Ireland, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Brazil, Peru, Central America, Argentina, the USA, Australia and Germany.

We are known for our market-leading presence in sectors such as Insurance, Health and Real Estate. This is complemented by a fast-growing Business Advisory capability. We represent a wide range of clients, ranging from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for the majority of the top 30 insurance and financial services companies operating in the UK. We are the asset management lawyers for the UK’s largest shopping centres and act for 9 of the UK’s top 10 housebuilders.

We have an impressive legal pedigree, with 155 Chambers UK 2019 practice area and individual lawyer rankings, including 30 rankings at 'Band 1' level. In Legal 500 UK, 2018, the firm received top tier ranking for 32 of its practice areas and 59 practice areas in the top two tiers. In March 2018, we were named as one of Legal Week's Best Legal Advisors for the third year running, achieving category-leading satisfaction scores for our commercial approach, service delivery, quality of legal advice, communication & responsiveness and overall relationships.

Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. For further details on our work and our culture, please visit www.dacbeachcroft.com.

DAC Beachcroft is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from every sector of the community. We also welcome direct applications. If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV. Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

DAC Beachcroft