Fox Williams LLP
Dispute Resolution paralegal (5-month FTC)
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Fox Williams: Career Opportunity
Fox Williams offers a unique opportunity to advance your career in a personable, progressive and entrepreneurial environment. Our people and culture are important to us and central to everything we do. We continually strive to create and maintain a friendly and supportive environment for our staff. You will quickly get to know everyone from the Senior Partner to the most junior staff. Whilst we are recognised for our strong culture and investing in our people, we are equally well known for our high-profile matters, the quality of our work and solving our clients’ most complex legal issues.
Diversity and Inclusion
Fox Williams is committed to creating a more diverse workforce which better reflects the demographics of society and the broad range of clients for whom we work. We collaborate with our recruitment agents to seek a broad talent pool for all our roles. We are passionate about working in an inclusive environment and successful candidates will be required to uphold this.
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The Role
The DR (Dispute Resolution) department has seven partners, fourteen associates and one paralegal working across international arbitration, civil fraud, securities litigation and general commercial litigation such as warranty claims and shareholder actions. This will be a 5-month FTC.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will be encouraged to take on a high level of responsibility and become involved in a broad spectrum of work across all areas of the department but with an emphasis on securities litigation. This includes:
- Undertaking research into the establishment and structure of potential clients/claimants to identify the correct entity to participate in group action proceedings.
- For securities litigation cases, this will involve a review of constitutional documents, relevant statutes and contractual documentation (including from international jurisdictions).
- Undertaking project and file management procedures.
- Reviewing new cases/judgments relating to securities litigations claims in England and Wales in order to inform analysis of claimant documentation.
- Drafting correspondence to clients requesting further information to assist with the identification of the correct entity to participate in proceedings.
- Reviewing and collating trading data and other documentation to be provided to any third parties instructed in proceedings (e.g. barristers and experts).
- Preparing updates on client onboarding and incurred fees for internal and external purposes.
- Managing regular and ad hoc client updates.
- Coordinating the gathering of evidence; assisting with disclosure and witness statements; and trial preparation.
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Personal Attributes and Skills
The ideal candidate will:
- Ideally, have good foundational disputes experience including some exposure to arbitration matters;
- Have excellent time management and communication skills.
- Be highly motivated to work both autonomously and as part of a team.
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