Bilingual German speaking Legal PA/ Paralegal

My client, a leader in the financial services sector is currently seeking a bilingual German and English speaking Legal PA/ Paralegal to support their team of German and English lawyers.

The firm has two offices; one in the City, London and one in High Wycombe and you can be based predominantly in either, but must be willing to travel to the other at least once per week.

This is an extremely involved PA/ Paralegal role and requires a dedicated and experienced candidate who can add value to the business through a proactive approach to work and the confidence to make decisions on the team’s behalf and learn the business intimately.

You will be given a very high level of responsibility and become as involved as possible in the team and the work.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Managing diaries.
• Arranging travel.
• Management of email inboxes and phone lines, filtering and dealing with as much as possible for the team.
• Maintaining professional memberships for lawyers in the team.
• Arranging necessary professional training and maintaining individual training records.
• Maintaining/updating legal department work sheets.
• Maintaining legal department internal time recording data.
• Handling billing process for external law firms.
• Maintaining databank of law firm contacts/law firms used/areas of expertise.
• Preparing complex PowerPoint presentations.
• Expenses.
• Assisting with monitoring legal department budget.
• Undertaking research and presenting results.
• Producing and amending a range of legal documents.
• Maintaining a range of legal templates and precedents.
• Assisting with document production issues, letter settings, document formatting, etc.
• Collating documents during a transaction.
• Collating documents for departmental bible post-closing.
• Assisting lawyers with document management and control.
• General scanning, faxing, filing duties.
• Paralegal and legal assistant duties.