Paralegal

Job description / Role

Salary AED 22-25,000

Our client is a leading international law firm and urgently seeking a Paralegal to provide support as required by the departments in the Dubai office.

Main duties and responsibilities:
- Providing support to the fee-earners throughout Dubai and across the Middle East in Litigation, Projects, Real Estate, Banking, Corporate and Employment.
- Providing support on the various stages of disclosure and document review exercises including collating, organising and reviewing documents for relevance and privilege, flagging important documents to fee-earners, identifying legal issues, co-ordinating witness and expert comments of the documents, providing detailed case information/knowledge, preparing disclosure lists.
- Researching points of law and other factual issues and preparing reports on the same.
- Collating and organising bundles of documents, witness statements and exhibits (both in hard copy and using Relativity).
- Providing support on various cross department deals and due diligence exercises.
- Reviewing and proof-reading legal documents.
- Maintaining audit trails in relation to document management.
- Maintaining client files and being the point of liaison (as required).

Requirements

- Qualified paralegal that has preferably completed the LPC.
- At least 2 years experience (not including work experience positions and internships) as a paralegal.
- Law graduate with a first or upper second class degree or equivalent.
- Proven paralegal experience supporting a similar legal team/department.
- Experience using litigation review databases (preferred).
- Experience using legal research databases (preferred).
- Preferably experience in Corp/Commercial.
- FM experience or Employment law experience an advantage.

Technical/Work-based Skills/Knowledge:
- Excellent IT skills, including Outlook, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
- Previous legal database experience.
- Previous document review platform experience.

General Skills/Attributes:
- Highly organised and methodical approach to the role as well as confidence with IT systems.
- Attention to detail and the confidence to work independently as well as in a team.
- Highly motivated and commercially astute.
- Flexibility and the ability to work to tight deadlines whilst maintaining a high level of accuracy.
- Self-motivated, hardworking, reliable and works well under pressure.
- Able to work effectively as part of a diverse and inclusive team.

Other requirements:
- Flexibility and a willingness to work additional hours on occasion as required.

Unfortunately due to the high volume of candidate applications only the shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

About the Company

Connect Executive Search Middle East is a full service selection and placement agency that is focused on supplying the best pool of talent to the Middle East. Offering an unrivalled level of service, our aim is to connect organisations with leading professionals through our team’s sector specific knowledge and in-depth understanding of the Middle East market.

We cover multiple sectors as following:

• Emiratisation & Government • Healthcare & Life Sciences • Legal & Business Support • OIL, Gas & Energy • Industrial and Engineering

At Connect Executive Search Middle East, finding employees the work they are best suited for, and by finding employers those candidates who are the right fit within their organization, we provide value to society as a whole. By finding the right balance between the needs of the employer and the changing wishes of employees, we will bring supply and demand closer together. It is our mission to inspire individuals and organisations to work more effectively and efficiently, and create greater choice in the domain of work, for the benefit of all concerned.