Legal Analyst (Respond)

Herbert Smith Freehills ,
Belfast, Antrim
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* Conducting work, under the supervision of senior Disputes lawyers, on large-scale contentious matters. This may include but is not limited to: documentary analysis and reporting on large-scale contentious matters or working as part of a supervised team on the assessment and management of claims (there will be target average daily chargeable hours). * Maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of relevant areas of law to the Alternative Legal Services Disputes practice. * Ensuring compliance with financial disciplines on matters (e.g. daily time-recording). TECHNICAL Essential * Law graduate (2:1 or above) or a post-graduate qualification in law with a minimum of 3 A levels (ideally B grades and above). * Ability to review, analyse and organise documentary and factual evidence. * Excellent attention to detail; aims to get it right first time. * Aptitude for learning (and becoming proficient in) the use of software and IT applications, and using search terms intelligently to navigate large databases/document management systems. Desirable * 6 months to a year's work experience in an office based environment. * Fluency in a second language with an ability to translate legal documents into English. Western European languages an advantage, but other languages (e.g. Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Korean or Russian) especially desirable. COMPETENCIES Personal Leadership: finds opportunities to develop and sustain themselves * Professional integrity * Self-Development * Builds resilience Technical Capability: builds legal knowledge and insight * Legal Ability * Produces high quality work * Delivers outcomes Contributes to Team and Firm: volunteers, assists others and contributes to positive team spirit * Teamwork and Communication * Builds networks * Contributes to firm Enhances the Client Experience: delivers excellent service to clients * Understands the client context * Innovates to support the firm Alt_Legal_ServOur Respond team members are part-time permanent employees of the Belfast office who work on a flexible basis while developing their legal careers with us. All Respond employees have minimum contracted hours of 7.5 hours per week, although are expected to work more hours than this, often on short notice, as and when required. Legal Analysts are part of our legal team, working closely with highly experienced senior Disputes lawyers on the delivery of client work within the Disputes practice group of HSF Alternative Legal Services. The role will be based in our Belfast office however you will regularly be working as part of a global ALT team. Opportunities can arise from time to time for Legal Analysts to be selected to go on business trips and secondments, usually to our London office. Our network of Committees in Belfast includes Social, Charity, Arts and Business, Diversity (including LGBT), Women in Business, Sports and we have an active HSF Belfast Choir. All new team members are welcome to join our Committees. As part of the HSF ALT Belfast Disputes team you will be invited to Learning and Development sessions run by our in-house team which focuses on both legal training and soft-skills such as drafting and presentations skills. LP_PG

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