Paralegal - Finance

Are you ready to take the next step in your paralegal career and broaden your expertise in new areas of law?

Do you enjoy collaborating with legal experts, creating high-quality content, and helping shape innovative legal solutions for practitioners?

About the Role

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a talented Paralegal to join the Hub and contribute to the future development of Lexis+ UK, LexisNexis UK's online practical guidance and research product. This 12-month fixed-term role focuses on the practice areas of Banking & Finance, Restructuring & Insolvency, Financial Services, and Insurance. You will help create, review, and enhance practical legal guidance while supporting product and platform improvements that deliver value to legal professionals.

In this role, you will be contributing to:

Practical Guidance content, our Practical Guidance product provides legal practical guidance and market insight which a busy front-line practitioner can read and digest quickly and easily. It is presented in a range of different content types including Practice Notes, precedents, checklists, and flowcharts.

Responsibilities

This work will include:

• Reviewing new and existing content for quality and legal accuracy
• Drafting practical guidance content (e.g. practice notes, checklists and precedents)
• Collaborating with external authors regarding externally written content
• Arranging and taking notes at Consulting Editorial Board and other meetings and liaising with CEB members and authors when required
• Having input into the development of technical solutions with our product teams, to ensure that we are delivering guidance research in the most efficient way possible
• Assisting with projects to improve functionality of LexisNexis online materials
• Conducting testing of the online platform and assisting in amending online legal content, as required
• Participating in internal feedback activities regarding functionality of the online platform and supporting feature development

Requirements

• LPC/BTC qualification and experience in Finance law and/or passionate about a career in Finance law
• Excellent legal research and writing skills
• Experience working in a legal environment (e.g. law firm, in-house, chambers, or equivalent)
• Strong understanding of legal workflows and content types (e.g. precedents, practice notes)
• Confidence and ability to take ownership of complex content tasks
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Exceptional attention to detail and organisational abilities
• Comfortable working with digital platforms and legal technology tools

Work in a Way That Works for You

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working Pattern

Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

About the Business

LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.

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