Paralegal

King & Spalding; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Critical illness insurance

Income protection

7% pension contribution

Gym membership

Employee Assistance Programme

Season ticket loan

Cycle to work

25 days annual holiday

Job summary

King & Spalding is a leading global law firm committed to excellence, innovation, and seamless delivery of legal services. A Paralegal in the London office provides support on complex international arbitration matters and cross-border litigation, maintaining case files, preparing submissions, and coordinating with vendors and local counsel.

The role involves cite-checking, preparation of hearing materials, and assisting at hearings.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and approximately five years of litigation/arbitration experience in a mid-to-large law firm or similar environment.
• Substantive familiarity with arbitration process and international disputes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to coordinate with clients, lawyers, staff and vendors.
• Strong MS Office skills and experience with document-management and AI-assisted platforms.

Responsibilities

• Assist with preparation, drafting, cite-checking and finalisation of international arbitration filings and hearing bundles.
• Organise and maintain case documents, exhibits, and databases; manage translation coordination.
• Conduct factual and legal research and prepare chronologies and witness materials.
• Coordinate with vendors, local counsel, experts and co-counsel; assist at hearings in London or elsewhere.
• Support post-hearing tasks, transcripts, and final hearing records; supervise assistants as needed.

Skills

Arbitration experience

Cross-office collaboration

MS Office proficiency

Cite-checking

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Relativity

Teams

Harvey

Microsoft Copilot

Job description

King & Spalding is a leading global law firm with a commitment to excellence, innovation, and the seamless delivery of legal services. We harness innovative technology and exceptional talent to meet the complex needs of our clients in a fast-paced and dynamic legal landscape.

Under general supervision and according to established policies and procedures, the Paralegal performs a variety of duties to assist lawyers and case teams in the London office and across the Firm’s global practice. This position provides paralegal support to lawyers handling complex international arbitration, cross-border litigation, enforcement and related disputes matters. The paralegal maintains positive contact with clients and observes confidentiality of client matters; organises and maintains case files, pleadings, submissions, exhibits, hearing materials, databases and lawyer notebooks; assists with filings and case management; supports preparation of written submissions, memorials, witness evidence and hearing bundles; coordinates with vendors and local counsel; assists at hearings and other proceedings; and performs other tasks required to support the team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assist with preparation, drafting, cite-checking, formatting and finalisation of international arbitration filings, written submissions, memorials, witness statements, expert reports and related materials.
• Perform extensive footnote review, cite-checking and organisation of supporting documentary, factual and witness evidence required for lengthy submissions and hearing materials.
• Organise and maintain case documents, pleadings, correspondence, exhibits, authorities, filings, team databases, electronic data and document-management systems, including databases used to store, code, review and sort documents.
• Prepare document chronologies, factual summaries, exhibit lists, hearing indexes, witness materials and other case-management tools.
• Conduct factual and legal research to locate opinions, legal authorities, exhibits, reports, media articles and other information related to a matter.
• Maintain working knowledge of the arbitration process, including investor-state, international commercial, construction and domestic arbitration, and assist matters arising under major institutional and ad hoc rules, including SIAC, ICC, ICESID, PCA, UNCITRAL, LCIA and ICDR rules.
• Manage and organise large quantities of translations, including working closely with translation vendors and coordinating review of translated materials.
• Coordinate vendors providing translation, photocopying, binding, printing, electronic data, e-discovery, document-management and hearing-support services.
• Work with and assist experts, witnesses, local counsel, co-counsel and other case participants, including helping coordinate interviews, meetings, inspections, witness preparation and logistics.
• Assist with pre-hearing preparations and logistics, including preparation of hearing bundles, exhibit control, witness schedules, breakout-room materials, demonstratives and hearing-room setup.
• Assist at hearings, including hearings in London or other locations that may last multiple weeks and may require extended hours or travel.
• Assist with post-hearing tasks, including organisation and shipment of hearing materials, maintaining final hearing records, coordinating transcript and exhibit updates, and supporting post-hearing submissions.
• Supervise project assistants or other support staff as needed on large matters or time-sensitive projects.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Highly organised, detail-oriented and responsive, with the ability to manage numerous tasks and competing deadlines in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.
• Substantive familiarity with the arbitration process and experience supporting complex international disputes matters.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively and professionally with clients, lawyers, staff, vendors, other case participants and all levels of personnel.
• Capacity to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a global team, including across offices, practice groups and time zones.
• Well-developed Microsoft Office skills, including Word, PowerPoint and Excel, together with familiarity using document-management, collaboration, review and AI-assisted platforms such as Teams, Relativity, Microsoft Copilot, Harvey or similar tools.
• Strong proofreading, cite-checking, research, organisational and analytical skills, with close attention to detail in written work product and case materials.
• Bachelor’s degree and approximately five or more years of litigation, arbitration or international disputes experience in a mid-to-large-size law firm or comparable professional environment required.
• Experience with onsite hearings, including international hearings, and the ability to work overtime, evenings and weekends when required.
• Fluency in English is required. Additional languages are a plus. Keeps accurate time records, uses appropriate descriptions of work, and meets time entry deadlines.

The Firm offers a generous total compensation package with annual bonus in recognition of individual merit-based performance. Eligible employees may participate in King & Spalding’s comprehensive benefit program, including private medical insurance with Bupa, life assurance (4x salary), critical illness insurance (2x salary) and income protection insurance, 7% firm pension contribution, gym membership/wellness allowance contribution, Employee Assistance Programme, season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme and 25 days annual holiday.

King & Spalding LLP (K&S) is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees in full compliance with all local laws prohibiting discrimination, including on the basis of race, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy status or any other status protected by applicable law.

We are proud of our remarkably cohesive culture, which now encompasses more than 2,500 lawyers and business professionals worldwide. We seek to attract and develop the very best talent to work with us.