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    Disputes Legal Analyst - Belfast, United Kingdom - Herbert Smith Freehills

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    About Herbert Smith Freehills

    As one of the world's leading law firms, we advise many of the largest and most ambitious organisations across all major regions of the globe. With over 5,000 people, including 3,100 lawyers and over 2,000 business services professionals, operating from our global network of offices across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and North America, Herbert Smith Freehills is at the heart of the new global business landscape providing premium quality, full-service legal advice.

    We recognise that the success of our business and our clients relies on the skills, knowledge and ideas of all our people. Our environment is one in which high performance is expected, in return, we will provide you with rewards and opportunities tailored to your personal and professional goals.

    The Opportunity

    The Role

    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.

    Key responsibilities

  • 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 orworking 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).
  • Skills, experience and qualifications

    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

  • 6months 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.
  • We have permanent and respond roles available.

    Please note, closing date for applications is Thursday 28th March at 5pm

    Team

    Alternative Legal Services (ALT)

    Working Pattern

    Full time

    Location

    Belfast

    Contract type

    Permanent Contract

    Diversity & Inclusion

    At Herbert Smith Freehills you will be part of a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus and highly engaged people are our differentiator. People at our firm come from a range of backgrounds and bring a wide variety of experiences and perspectives to their work with us. We strive to ensure that our inclusive environment means you feel valued and able to perform at your best by being your authentic self at work. We know that our future success not only depends on being innovative and progressive in the changing legal market but, most importantly, on our people feeling highly engaged in meaningful work.

    We understand that you have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to create a working environment based on mutual trust and respect, in which you can perform at your best whilst maintaining sustainable balance across your life.


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