Paralegals
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Paralegals
Driving excellence in legal delivery operations
There’s substantial change in how legal work is done, and paralegals are key to ensuring we deliver our legal solutions more efficiently. If you want to build a career in law and you’re passionate, highly motivated, and driven about constantly finding new ways to deliver great work, join us and be part of a team that’s pushing the boundaries.
Paralegals: Our experience
What we’ve achieved
Our delivery
Our Legal Delivery Centre (LDC) provides solutions to support our firm's high end advisory services. Joining our LDC legal team as a junior legal professional will give you exposure to Trainee level work, specialist, process-centric operations working alongside our qualified lawyers and our IT tools. The LDC is very much forward thinking and at the front edge of the firms drive to use innovative delivery techniques and the latest software to provide clients with new solutions and servicing options.
We are international and operate in Amsterdam, Leeds, Germany and across Australia.
Our solutions
Client and practice group requirements are often unique. Working collaboratively as one team, we can provide a mix of skills, streamlined processes and technology to bring legal and tech together effectively at a commercial advantage to our clients and legal teams. Our junior legal professionals benefit from our platform to and support driving best practice and excellence in legal delivery operations.
Your development
Our junior legal professionals work under our Service Delivery Capability Framework. Our capabilities are designed to provide clarity and high-level expectations. This framework is intended to help people identify areas of strength and development and can be used to underpin personal development plans and help people to identify career development opportunities. Our supervising lawyers within the LDC will also provide the necessary guidance and support to ensure you're getting the right development.
Our Legal Delivery Centre (LDC) provides solutions to support our firm's high end advisory services. Joining our LDC legal team as a junior legal professional will give you exposure to Trainee level work, specialist, process-centric operations working alongside our qualified lawyers and our IT tools. The LDC is very much forward thinking and at the front edge of the firms drive to use innovative delivery techniques and the latest software to provide clients with new solutions and servicing options.
We are international and operate in Amsterdam, Leeds, Germany and across Australia.
Client and practice group requirements are often unique. Working collaboratively as one team, we can provide a mix of skills, streamlined processes and technology to bring legal and tech together effectively at a commercial advantage to our clients and legal teams. Our junior legal professionals benefit from our platform to and support driving best practice and excellence in legal delivery operations.
Our junior legal professionals work under our Service Delivery Capability Framework. Our capabilities are designed to provide clarity and high-level expectations. This framework is intended to help people identify areas of strength and development and can be used to underpin personal development plans and help people to identify career development opportunities. Our supervising lawyers within the LDC will also provide the necessary guidance and support to ensure you're getting the right development.
Kostas Chondroulis, Paralegal, Leeds
Since joining the firm, I've had springboard of opportunities for personal growth – one being in developing my specialist legal knowledge.
Aida Noei, Trainee Solicitor, London
Since working in the Legal Delivery Centre, I've had access to a wide range of international work, working directly with colleagues and clients across the world.
Annie Khan, LDC Assistant Team Manager, London
Joining the Legal Delivery Centre (LDC) has been pivotal to my career growth. Through hands-on experience in disposal and lease renewal work, along with support and training from the Real Estate department, I have progressed to Assistant Team Manager, setting a strong foundation for my career.
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