Duration: Maternity Cover 12 month FTC
Your new role:
The successful candidate will have a strong work ethic, takes pride in their work, able to supervise and coach on a day to day basis.
You will be responsible for a multi-skilled managed services team including but not limited to Financial Litigation, Employment Law and Real Estate
We would like you to have:
- Experience working in commercial litigation, undertaking legal support work as part of service delivery model
- Ability to make decisions and deal with escalations, solving problems and queries effectively
- Can demonstrate an ability in driving high team performance and service excellence, including experience of supervising teams
- Be capable of mobilizing teams to support on large projects to meet time sensitivities, capable of using project management skills to resource and deliver legal projects
- Common sense, commerciality and the ability to exercise judgement
- Effective personal organisational and time management skills and the ability to juggle multiple demands and prioritise workloads
- The ability to work under pressure, to tight timescales with a sense of urgency
- Strong attention to detail
- A strong desire to develop skills and capability and improve quality
- Strong IT skills across multiple platforms and be capable of leading the team on new technological solutions
- Excellent communication skills with a professional approach to clients
- Capable of training staff to required standards and monitoring and improving performance in line with QA standards
The role of a Team Lead is varied and includes:
- Taking responsibility for the overall work allocation and mobilising teams to support on large projects to meet time sensitivities
- Supervision of work conducted by the team and ensuring all training requirements are met
- Liaising with instructors of work regarding return dates, process improvement and feedback to achieve service excellence and improve quality
- Completing tasks to scope, on time and on budget
- Responsibility for monitoring time recording and project fees billed
- Team administration, including but not limited to maintaining a training matrix, holidays and general HR queries, performance reviews and 1-2-1 meetings
- To role model and embed 'winning' behaviours across the team.
- To drive a positive, motivating culture within the team that supports the progression and development of our people, whilst delivering operational excellence.
Areas of work experience required could include:
- Completing MI and data integrity checks
- Checking legal documents for quality, consistency and content
- Leading on large disclosure and e-disclosure exercises
- Drafting and producing legal documentation and standard forms
- Assessing the relevance of a wide range of documentation as part of contentious claims
- Managing electronic data site including uploading and ordering documentation
- Providing pre and post completion support on transactional work areas
- Legal support work to practice groups in Litigation, commercial, corporate & banking and insurance
Please note, should you not receive feedback within 28 days, unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful. However, we may be in touch with similar relevant opportunities.