SQE Graduate – Commercial Litigation and Arbitration Paralegal

McKinlay Law; City Of London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A boutique law firm in London is seeking an LPC/SQE graduate for the SQE Graduate – Commercial Litigation and Arbitration Paralegal role. The position involves assisting in high-value commercial litigation with responsibilities including legal research and document management. This is a great opportunity for a motivated candidate with exceptional academic qualifications, offering excellent training and career progression within the firm.

Benefits

Excellent training

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong academic background essential for the role.
• Willingness to undertake various paralegal tasks.
• Must have LPC/SQE qualification.

Responsibilities

• Assist with high-value complex commercial litigation.
• Conduct extensive legal research and draft legal documents.
• Prepare bundles/documents for meetings and court.

Skills

Legal research

Document management

Drafting legal documents

Education

LPC / SQE qualification

Exceptional academics

Job description

SQE Graduate – Commercial Litigation and Arbitration Paralegal

Job Title: SQE Graduate – Commercial Litigation and Arbitration Paralegal

Location: Central London

Our client, a boutique London law firm with an established client base, are looking to recruit an LPC / SQE graduate to join their litigation and international arbitration team to assist with high-value, complex commercial litigation. The work will be a mixture of dispute resolution including banking and financial services, contract disputes, funds, M&A disputes, fraud, shipping, and general commercial litigation.

The firm are happy to see LPC / SQE graduates with no experience, but it is essential that you have very strong academics. The successful paralegal will be dealing with a variety of tasks including: document management; extensive legal research; drafting legal documents including briefs, appeals, agreements etc.; preparing bundles / documents for meetings and court; proof reading contracts, and other general paralegal assistance as required.

Exceptional academics and the LPC / SQE are essential. This is an exciting role and an exceptional opportunity to join a well-established firm with excellent career prospects / long term progression (the firm have offered training contracts to their previous paralegals). Fantastic training on offer and ideal for an ambitious, motivated candidate.

McKinlay Law endeavour to contact all successful candidates within 24 hours. However, due to the volume of applications that we receive, we are not able to respond to every candidate individually. If you have not heard from us within 24 hours your application has been unsuccessful and we have not retained your details