In-house Litigation Assistant
- Employer
- QED Legal
- Location
- England, Northamptonshire, Northampton
- Salary
- £18000 - £22000 per annum + Additional Beneifts
- Closing date
- 13 Nov 2018
- Reference
- SC20894Q
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- Practice area
- Commercial litigation, Insolvency and bankruptcy
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- PQE
- 1 year
- Position
- Legal executive, Paralegal, Trainee and graduate
- Sector
- In-house
Job Details
Our client is a FTSE 250 organisation looking for a Litigation Executive / Legal Assistant to work as part of their In-house General Counsel Office. Based in Northampton this is a wide and varied position offering the opportunity to progress and develop your career in a busy but friendly in-house legal department. This role primarily involves Insolvency, and the correct administration of trade accounts.
It will also include contact with commercial debtors at all stages, including correspondence and telephone, commencing litigation, and management of defended litigation across various tracks. You may be dealing with defences, disputes, applications to set aside, personal guarantee disputes.
The client are looking for candidates, either with dispute resolution experience or from a finance background. You should have excellent communication skills, as building relationships is critical to this role.
Our client envisages that candidates with at least 1 years' experience in a Litigation Executive position will have the relevant skills / knowledge for this position, however this has been given as an approximate guide for applicants and our client is happy to consider the applications of candidates who fall outside of this range but who have the relevant experience.
For more information on this great in-house opportunity please contact Simon Campbell at QED Legal. If this position isn't for you but you know someone who could be suitable then please let us know. We offer a reward fee for any successful referrals. For full details please see our website.
Company
QED
An acronym of the latin phrase quod erat demonstrandum which translates as "thus it is demonstrated" or "that which was to be demonstrated". It is most often used as an annotation at the end of a complex mathematical, scientific or philosophical argument to show that the author had proven what he had set out to prove. In recent times it has also been translated as "Quite Easily Done".
As a recruiter you have to network and speak to large amounts of people and lots of law firms to really understand the market and have the connections to match people with opportunity quickly when the time arises. A good recruiter needs to be Quick, Excellent and Dynamic in everything that they do. Allow the team at QED to demonstrate what they can do for your firm or your career.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
• Partner moves – both full equity and fixed share equity
• Team moves
• Firm Mergers / Bolt-on’s
• Succession / retirement planning
• In House Counsel
• Patent / Trademark Attorneys
• Other jurisdictions – placing lawyers into and from other countries
• Professional Support Lawyers
• Associate moves – focusing not just on team and culture fit but also client and work quality and room for future advancement.
• Assistant moves – lawyers cannot afford to make mistakes with their career moves. In the crucial early years exposure to the correct mentor and clients is essential.
• Legal professionals – FILEX, MILEX, ILEX, Licenced Conveyancers, paralegals, legal assistants and fee earners
• Support services - practice managers, COLP / COFA – regulatory and compliance, office managers, IT developers, case management specialists, law costs draftsmen and negotiators, legal secretaries, legal cashiers
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