Sigma Law Specialist Transactional Services - Leeds, United Kingdom - Elevate Services

Elevate Services

Verified Company

Leeds, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Overview:

As a member of the Transactional Legal Services Team dedicated to Reed Smith LLP responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
Due Diligence of legal documents relating to corporate and financial transactions.
Creating and managing data rooms.
Completion work including DocuSign.
Drafting legal documents using precedents.
Amending and redacting legal documents.
Preparing bibles and drafting indices.
Working closely with Reed Smith fee earners to provide general, ad hoc support under instruction.
Identifying opportunities to improve legal processes and articulating the case for making the change.
Ensuring the quick and efficient delivery of work to meet strict deadlines.
Working flexibly and actively seeking opportunities to learn new legal processes including working with legal technology.

Responsibilities & Qualifications:

Skills and Attributes:
Superb analytical skills.
Enjoys working as a part of a team and adapts working styles fostering a spirit of team working.
Comfortable with change and embraces opportunities to work faster and smarter.
Case/project management skills, attention to detail, and the ability to meet tight deadlines without sacrificing the quality of client service.
Resilience under pressure and motivated by accountability and the desire to meet or exceed objectives and deadlines.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to build relationships.
Comfortable and capable of working proactively in a global organisation.
Reliable, meets deadlines and anticipates problems.
Takes personal ownership of selfimprovement.
Ability to quickly master new software and work with technology.

Performance Improvement- Provide feedback and identify opportunities for improvement of processes or the use of technology.

As a team, work with your manager to design initiatives that will drive measurable improvements in quality, speed, and efficiency.
Welcomes mistakes or errors as opportunities for improving business processes.

Experience/Skills/Education- Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Interest in delivering legal services, continuous improvement and working with technology.
Languages highly desirable (particularly fluent French, German, Spanish and Russian).

Development: