Crime & Regulatory Paralegal

An exceptional opportunity has arisen for a Paralegal to join the rapidly growing Professional Misconduct team, part of the Business Crime & Regulation department in the London office of my national law firm client.

There will be exposure to high quality work from the outset and the opportunity for career progression for the right candidate.

This is a full time, office-based role.

The role:

The successful candidate will provide support to all the lawyers in the team as required; this will include interacting with clients, managing tasks, carrying out research, and building positive professional relationships with clients, experts, counsel and other legal professionals. You will be exposed to a wide variety of work and expected to adapt quickly to new and emerging areas of law.

The team:

You will join a team of twenty comprising partners, senior associates, associates, trainees and support staff. The main areas of work are regulatory misconduct matters for serving police officers as well as general and serious crime defence.

The successful candidate will need to be able to demonstrate the following skills and attributes:

Essential skills:

• Organisational skills, time management and prioritisation.
• Proactive attitude: able to react to a developing situation, take responsibility and reprioritise.
• Professional presentation, personable and comfortable interacting with different types of client and other professionals.
• Confident verbal communicator, good telephone manner and able to triage and progress calls effectively.
• Advanced legal research skills.
• Excellent written communication skills.
• Strong IT skills, including full suite of Microsoft office and ability to adapt to new systems quickly.

Desirable Skills:

• Previous experience within criminal law at a reputable firm.
• Good working knowledge of anti-money laundering regulations (MLRs), criminal financing, and bribery and corruption legislation.
• Experience preparing interviews under caution and/or regulatory interviews.
• Police station accreditation would be advantageous.
• Experience working to financial/time targets.
• Experience of business development; networking, contributing to publications/blogs, producing other written content, organising events and/or participating with professional organisations.
• Aptitude with cutting-edge IT and legal tech including AI skills.
• Second language skills a plus.

Rewards

As well as a rewarding career, my client offers its colleagues many other opportunities and benefits, including a competitive basic salary, generous holiday entitlement, pension scheme, death in service, private medical insurance, income protection and a range of social events

Apply today for immediate consideration!