Are you keen to progress your legal career in a collaborative team
environment at an international law firm where your contribution is
really valued? Then this could be the role for you. We are looking for
an outstanding Paralegal who wants to develop their legal skills and
experience in our successful Business Immigration practice in London.
Our Firm
Squire Patton Boggs is one of the world's strongest integrated law
firms, committed to providing insight at the point where law, business
and government meet. We deliver commercially focused business
solutions by combining our legal, lobbying and political capabilities
and invaluable connections on the ground to a diverse mix of clients,
from long-established leading corporations to emerging businesses,
start-up visionaries and sovereign nations.
More than 1,500 lawyers operating in 40+ offices across four
continents provide unrivalled access to expertise. In the UK, we have
offices in Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, and London.
The firm is committed to promoting an inclusive and supportive
working environment. Embedded by local champions in each of our UK
offices, our well-regarded family and carer, wellbeing and DEI
programmes provide a variety of flexible working options to support
individuals' life journeys, helping our people pursue their personal
and professional goals.
Our Team
Our well-regarded Business Immigration team is renowned for its
excellent advice on business immigration matters and is highly rated
in both the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners. It sits within our
global Labour & Employment Practice Group and predominantly acts
for leading global businesses.
Our client base includes a range of sectors including finance,
retail, energy, pharma, engineering, construction, tech and sport. You
will work collaboratively with the team on immigration matters, many
of which are complex and time critical. Being well-placed to
capitalise on our global platform of offices, we are one of the few
global, full-service law firms with an established business
immigration practice in the UK.
Our Opportunity
You will work largely on Skilled Worker sponsorship applications,
providing support to, but closely supervised by the wider team.
Material experience in Skilled Worker visa applications, including a
thorough understanding of the qualifying criteria, end-to-end process
and required documentation is therefore essential.
We recognise hard work and commitment; and in return, we will give
you the opportunity to develop and gain valuable experience in a
number of interesting and challenging matters.
You
We are looking for someone with a strong academic background, with at
least two years' experience working as a Business Immigration
Paralegal (in particular, on Skilled Worker visas) and who is keen to
develop their career in this area of law. You will be driven, able to
work collaboratively within a team but also independently, and
demonstrate a real passion for law coupled with a commercial mind-set
and service-driven approach.
You will be expected to work in a busy commercial environment, be
highly organised, have the ability to communicate effectively and work
on your own initiative, whilst knowing when to seek guidance. You will
need to have great interpersonal skills, which will allow you to work
well within this team.
What you need to know
If you are interested in finding out more about this role, please
visit our website at www.squirepattonboggs.com/en/careers in the first
instance. We are unable to process applications sent directly by email
so please complete an online application. We will be reviewing
applications and interviewing on an ongoing basis. No agency CVs
accepted at this time.
We are an inclusive employer and aim to ensure that our workforce
is representative of our diverse society. We welcome applicants
regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression,
age, neuro diversity or disability status, family or parental
status, race, religion or ethnicity. We will make reasonable
adjustments and adaptions to our recruitment process to ensure it is
inclusive for anyone who wishes to apply. We may collect relevant
data for monitoring as part of our candidate registration process.
