The Department

Our central Legal Support Services function provides comprehensive support to Mishcon's fee earners that is frictionless and service-driven to enable our lawyers in Cambridge and across our international offices to focus on their legal work and client service. Our teams provide a wide range of administrative, operational, and legal support, as well as PA services.

The Team

The Legal Support Services function comprises of the following teams:

• Paralegals
• Legal Administrators
• Specialist Support, incl. Legal Project Management and Legal Technology
• Legal Operations, incl. PA support, Document Production and Business Admin support

Duties and Responsibilities

This is an exciting entry-level Paralegal role and an opportunity to provide support to different practice groups with a variety of legal administrative tasks and junior paralegal tasks.

This role is part of a small team of Legal Administrators who provide centralised support from within a Legal Admin Unit. Most interactions will be with our Immigration, Private Wealth and Tax, Real Estate and Corporate practice groups, as well as other teams with a high legal administrative burden.

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Compiling electronic and binding hard copy documents, incl. deal bibles and electronic court bundles.
• Making online Property searches, companies house searches and obtaining land registry documentation.
• Drafting Land Registry and company house applications, replying to enquiries and chasing all outstanding matters and dealing with additional enquiries.
• Creating data sites and managing the same including uploading documents.
• Preparation of legal documents and forms as required.
• Reviewing and scheduling deeds and documents both electronic and hard copy.
• Performing transcriptions and machine translations.
• Database management.
• Assisting with research requests.
• Supporting DocuSign processes at deal closing.
• Support with the set-up and management of large-scale document reviews.
• Scanning and copying of documents and liaising with Print Room to ensure all photocopying and production is undertaken within certain timeframes.
• Utilising technology-based solutions in the department to assist fee-earners with tasks on matters.
• Providing support as required by the fee-earners and working with secretaries/ paralegals in the Department.
• Responsive and adaptive to changing needs and priorities.

To strive for excellent and consistent service delivery across the team, we are introducing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) that outline how the various tasks are to be carried out. This will allow us to distribute the workload across different members of the team. As new services are moved into the Legal Admin Unit, you may also be asked to develop SOP manuals and provide training to your peers.

Skills/Experience

• Interest in law and a career in a law firm.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent organisational skills and ability to prioritise to work to deadlines
• Ability to effectively manage own workload.
• Ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels, both written and spoken.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Must demonstrate an ability to establish priorities and react quickly and professionally.
• Proactive and takes initiative.
• Good IT skills: thorough working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Outlook.
• Strong academic record, preferably a law degree.

Please note that this job profile is not an exhaustive list of duties but merely an outline of the key components of the role. You may be required by your line manager to take on additional responsibilities when requested.

About The Mishcon de Reya Group

The Mishcon de Reya Group is an independent, international professional services business with law at its heart, employing over 1450 people with over 650 lawyers. It includes the law firm Mishcon de Reya LLP and a collection of leading consultancy businesses that complement the firm's legal services.

Mishcon de Reya LLP is based in London, Oxford, Cambridge, Singapore and Hong Kong (through its association with Karas So LLP ). The firm services an international community of clients and provides advice in situations where the constraints of geography often do not apply. Its work is cross-border, multi-jurisdictional and complex, spanning seven core practice areas: Corporate ; Dispute Resolution ; Employment ; Impact; Innovation ; Private ; and Real Estate .

The Mishcon de Reya Group includes consultancy businesses MDR Discover, MDRi (in Hong Kong), MDR Mayfair (in London, Singapore and Dubai), MDR ONE and MDRx. The Group also includes MDR Lab, which invests in the most promising early stage legaltech companies as well as the Mishcon Academy, its in-house place of learning and platform for thought leadership.

Earlier this year, the Group announced its first strategic acquisition in the alternative legal services market, flexible legal resourcing business Flex Legal. It also acquired a majority stake in Somos, a global group actions management business.

We strive to create a fully diverse and inclusive workplace where all our people are empowered to fulfil their potential. We are proud of our agile working culture and are always happy to talk flexible working.

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