Hybrid Paralegal – Brazilian Qualified

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About the role

  • Paralegal supporting Brazilian legal team in civil litigation and proceedings. Involves legal research, client liaising, case management, and documentation preparation.

Responsibilities

  • Monitoring litigation enquiries; providing client care including liaising with clients (by phone and email)
  • Undertaking ad-hoc research projects as necessary
  • Analysing data and providing reports/summaries of findings
  • Managing the Group Register of claimants for the case
  • Liaising directly with clients in order to progress with their individual claims
  • Filing correspondence internally, and through E-Filing with the Court
  • Managing the litigation timetable and key diary dates for Associate Solicitor(s)
  • Civil litigation specific tasks including preparing documentation for substitutions; discontinuances; file closing; probate etc.
  • Disclosure review using the Relativity e-discovery platform
  • Drafting correspondence and memoranda
  • Develop and maintain relationships with external counsel

Requirements

  • Strong communication skills, in person and writing
  • Experience in Brazilian collective law and Consumer law
  • Excellent analytical skills, including for legal issues presented in documents
  • Independent and proactive approach to work, but willing to ask for help when needed
  • Hard-working, resilient, highly organised, and flexible
  • Acute attention to detail
  • Respectful of client confidentiality
  • Comfortable working as part of a dynamic international team.
  • Post-graduate qualification in private international; environmental; business and human rights laws (Desirable)
  • Previous experience of using the Relativity e-disclosure platform (Desirable)
  • Previous experience of using Proclaim (or equivalent), case management system. (Desirable)
  • Portuguese language skills (Desirable)

Benefits

  • 25 days’ annual leave (plus 8 Bank Holidays)
  • Private medical insurance
  • Private pension scheme
  • Life assurance
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
  • Employee assistance programme
  • Employee referral bonus
  • E-bikes and gym discounts (available through salary sacrifice scheme)
  • Season ticket loans

Job title

Paralegal – Brazilian Qualified

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

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