Slaughter and May
Knowledge Paralegal (6 month FTC)
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ROLE OVERVIEW
We are recruiting for a Knowledge Paralegal to join the Financing Group.
Our Financing Group comprises 16 partners and around 65 associates and advises on a broad range of complex and market-leading financing matters. The group encompasses a number of different practice areas including Banking, Debt Capital Markets, Securitisation and Structured Finance, Restructuring and Insolvency ("R&I"), and Derivatives.
The team advises a diverse range of clients, including major corporates, financial institutions, investment funds and other market participants, on some of the most sophisticated and high-profile financing transactions and restructurings in the market. The group operates a client-focused model, with partners and associates working closely together across a client's financing matters, providing an excellent understanding of clients' businesses and commercial objectives.
The Knowledge Paralegal will support the group's knowledge management and know-how function with a focus on R&I and Derivatives work. The Knowledge Paralegal will work closely alongside the R&I and Derivatives Knowledge Lawyers and Knowledge Advisors and will also liaise with partners, associates, trainees and members of the Business Development and Business Services teams across the Financing Group as a whole and elsewhere in the firm.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
The key responsibilities of this role are set out below and there may be others which are not listed. You may be required on occasion to work outside our normal working hours of 9:30am to 5:30pm.
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- Monitoring legal and market developments
- Assisting with the production of newsletters, updates and horizon scanning
- Legal and market research
- Collecting know-how and precedents and uploading to the firm’s know-how systems
- Maintaining and updating know-how resources, including practice intranet sites and other knowledge repositories
- Taking part in knowledge projects and legal-tech innovation across the group (including use of firm approved AI tools to efficiently carry out everyday tasks)
- Organising internal training and team meetings and assisting with preparing materials
- Supporting client-facing training and events, including the preparation of materials
- Supporting other business development initiatives
- Assisting with queries from fee earners and, if required, assisting with certain fee earning tasks.
CANDIDATE PROFILE
Candidates for this position must have:
- Strong academics and legal background (2:1 degree or above from a top university and completion of SQE preferred)
- A secured training contract is essential
- Excellent legal technical knowledge and ability to pick up new legal concepts quickly
- Strong research skills
- Highly competent written and spoken communication abilities
- Ability to demonstrate a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
- Excellent planning and organisational skills
- An ability to progress parallel priorities
- An ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Good IT skills and an ability to learn new IT systems quickly
- Confidence to use the firm’s approved generative AI tools and to trial new use cases
- Self-motivation and drive to work independently and pro-actively, using sound analysis and judgement and taking responsibility for delivery
- Ability to adapt and fit into the team, fostering an inclusive team culture
- High level of professionalism and integrity
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We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and will offer an interview to applicants with a disability or long-term condition who best meet the minimum or essential criteria for our Business Services roles. If you would like to apply through the Disability Confident 'Offer An Interview' commitment, please apply via our online application form and not via LinkedIn. You are disabled under the Equality Act 2010 if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a ‘substantial’ and ‘long-term’ negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. For more information about the Disability Confident scheme, please see the government website here.
We welcome applications irrespective of race, colour, ethnic or national origin, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, belief or marital status.
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