Paralegal (6-month contract)

A&O Shearman is a new global industry-leading law firm, with nearly 50 offices in 29 countries worldwide. Our fluency in English law, US law, and the laws of the world's most dynamic markets, enables us to provide unmatched insight and seamless delivery to clients. We work on challenging and important deals and disputes that have the potential to shape the future.

We offer exceptional opportunities for our people; opportunities to work for the world's leading businesses; to transform the status quo, and to deliver your best work, helping you and your career to thrive, while delivering unparalleled outcomes for our clients.

Whether you're helping clients solve complex challenges, transforming the ways we manage our business, or ensuring the smooth-running of our operations, this is an environment where you can belong and excel. We provide first-rate training and development, we are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and we provide support and ways of working that help you optimise your wellbeing.

What truly defines a career with us? We recruit the best and ask for the best of you. And together, we will redefine success.

Department purpose
Our Business Acceptance Unit (BAU) provides a cutting-edge service to support the Firm in performing checks against all incoming business and the team prides itself on providing a second-to-none service in the areas of conflict and new client on-boarding checks.

Following the merger there is a need for the BAU to undertake a data cleanse of the data that is held in the conflict checking database Intapp. We require a driven and goal focussed individual to be part of this exciting new project. Goal focussed; the right candidate will work to assist the BAU Managers in the project objective of substantially reducing redundant data sets in the database.

This is an opportunity to gain exposure to various areas of risk and compliance whilst working for a magic circle law firm.

Regularly voted in the top employer lists, A&O Shearman fosters a collaborative work environment, is a leader in ESG, is regularly praised for its commitment to its pro-bono work and its commitment to social mobility as well as its support for its LGBTQ+ colleagues. With a reputation of being a fantastic employer, A&O Shearman offers extensive benefits to support well-being and training and development.

Role and responsibilities
- Assist in the maintenance of up-to-date records within the firm's database
- Assist with on a new data review project under the direction of the BAU Conflict Managers
- Collecting other records from team members and storing and organising such records in the appropriate databases.
- Helping to refine and develop further the BAU's internal records management databases and processes
- Working closely with the Finance, Marketing, and Business Development (BD) Departments to ensure that internal alerts are kept up-to-date
- Working together with all other team members in monitoring service levels of the review project.
- Assisting the BAU Managers and Legal Team with Paralegal support, Research and other projects
- Liaising with BAU Lawyers to review records within the database.
- Applying judgement and decision-making when reviewing data sets
- Inputting and removing data using the firm's conflict checking database Intapp
- Liaising with partners and other relevant fee-earners and with support departments to understand requirements with a view to retention or deletion of data sets
- Undertaking administrative duties including record maintenance.
- Being flexible in undertaking the above responsibilities and any others so required.

Key requirements

<li class="\"Label\"" style="0margin-top: 3px;">Strong academic background - legal degree or relevant experience in a legal environment<li class="\"Label\"" style="0margin-top: 3px\";">Strong organisational skills coupled with demonstrable database management skills are essential. <li class="\"Label\"" style="0margin-top: 3px\";">Excellent communication and interpersonal skills <li class="\"Label\"">Ability to analyse and review data sets<li class="\"Label\"">Strong attention to detail <li class="\"Label\"">Ability to work independently under pressure and to remain focussed on tasks at hand.<li class="\"Label\"">Confident to liaise with matter teams and respond to target audience appropriately both in written and verbal communication<li class="\"Label\"">Strong team support focus<li class="\"Label\"">Goal focussed<li class="\"Label\"">Experience of working in a law firm, risk and compliance is preferred but is not essential.