Paralegal

What we will offer:
We will offer you a place where you can be yourself and where there are no limits on what you can achieve. With us, you can take ownership of your career and have honest conversations throughout. You would join an ambitious firm with a clear strategy for profitable growth where you can get early responsibility and early involvement in growing the business. Here you can expect a competitive and fair reward as well as recognition based on all round performance. This forms part of our internal promise to you, The Deal, between the firm and its employees.

Team Structure:
**We are an award-winning international Private Wealth team, based in Singapore, and which sits within our Employment, Pensions & Private Wealth ("**EPP**") Practice Group. Our focus is to guide and support high net worth individuals and their families, and entrepreneurs to structure their assets to preserve, protect and grow their wealth.**:
**Our practice covers a broad range of services including estate planning, family offices, charitable giving, immigration and relocation, regulatory, funds and UK tax.**:
We are seeking an experienced paralegal, who considers themselves as a team player and who is keen to learn and grow with an exciting private wealth practice. As a key member of the team, the EPP paralegal will have access and opportunity to:

- Receive one-on-one mentoring and career guidance as well as participation in our excellent in-house training programmes.
- Gain broad based experience in legal practice covering both Singapore and UK law with the opportunity to work on matters involving multi-jurisdictional issues.
- Have early exposure to clients.
- Work as part of a small and agile team that is passionate about private wealth; and
- Join a market leading international law firm.

Main Responsibilities:
The following are typical tasks expected of the EPP Paralegal.

**Technical expertise & client service**
- Take ownership of tasks delegated; clarifies scope, deadlines and delivers effectively.
- Takes instructions from supervisor and others,
- Observes and takes full and accurate notes of any meetings/calls, completes clear follow up file notes.
- Drafting, amending & updating documents maintaining effective version control.
- If required, produce/amend initial clear and precise draft documents and able to use standard precedents.
- Document management - including review and/or analysis of legal precedents, contracts, etc.
- Assist in company, bankruptcy, etc. searches.
- Summarising documents and producing chronologies.
- Reviewing/proof-reading, checking format and numbering, cross references and using consistent terminology across all relevant documents.
- Liaising with clients and updating team members on development of matters.
- Verify information as required, including checking that existing information on file is up to date.
- Support fee earners in maintaining efficient housekeeping and file management practices.

**Developing & growing our business**
- Develops own profile by delivering quality work and contributing fully to the needs of the practice group and the wider firm.
- Seeks and acquires an understanding of the group’s strengths and how that fits in to the firm's broader strategy and selling points.
- As appropriate, willingly assists with profile raising activities, research/preparation of pitches and/or writing legal articles.

**Financial & risk management**
- Understand the basics of the billing process.
- Support the fee earning team in effective legal project management of matters.
- Identify risk issues/conflicts of interest in own work and escalates accordingly.
- Keeps supervisor informed about workload and proactively seeks more work, volunteers and readily responds to requests for help.
- Record/post time on a daily basis, accurately and fully.
- Understands firm procedures and regulatory obligations including identifying and reporting conflicts of interest.
- Carry out administrative tasks efficiently, managing own time and willing to accept changing priorities.

**Working together**
- Work effectively with associates in other groups, secretarial and business services staff, trainees and other paralegals.
- Proactive and receptive to receiving feedback and takes ownership to develop or adjust performance and/or behaviour accordingly.
- Willingly contribute towards know-how, innovation, pro-bono, team or firm-wide initiatives and delivers as agreed.

Attributes/Skills Required:

- An LLB degree is preferred as is having been admitted to practice in Singapore or in a foreign jurisdiction. Alternatively, a Diploma in Legal Studies or equivalent may also be considered.
- Previous work experience as a paralegal or as an NQ, PQE1-2 years is essential. Applicants with experience in other practice areas and are looking to switch to private wealth/private client work are invited to apply.
- Experience in private client or general corporate matters is a bonus or an interest in gaining