Corporate Paralegal

Corporate Paralegal

• Type: legal
• Firm:
  Law firm
• Salary: £22 - 26,000 depending on experience
• Location:
  Southampton

Top 200 Law firm with offices based in Southampton seek a Corporate Paralegal to join the corporate team.

• Completing Corporate and company secretarial matters
• Creation and maintenance of company statutory books and records
• Managing company secretarial database
• Companies House filings
• Processing company in corporations
• Preparing Companies House forms and routine company secretarial documents
• Managing registered office post
• Administering company secretarial client matters
• Undertaking post completion work on corporate matters including preparing bibles of documents and stamp duty applications
• Generating potential new work and assisting others in so doing
• Attend professional networking functions, business clubs, and client events, corporate hospitality, etc
• To assist with departmental administration
• To assist with other general administrative duties as required
• Draft legal documents from instructions taken by qualified team members
• To maintain databases as required
• To review and note interim quarterly reports
• Responds promptly to clients (as required) and colleagues
• Ensures a speedy turnaround of work
• Contributes pro-actively to departmental matters
• Other general Corporate work

• Up to date legal knowledge
• Previous Corporate or company secretarial experience (desirable)
• Awareness of the entire range of services that the firm can offer
• Excellent communication skills – verbal and written
• Ability to effectively deal with clients and provide a high level of service
• Ability and willingness to assist with networking and marketing
• Enthusiastic team player
• Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative
• Be logical, organized and thorough
• Knowledge of and competency in Information Technology
• Commitment to technical and personal development