LAW ASSISTANT - INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

JFV Groningen; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 20,664 - 34,440; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Participation in educational and social programmes

Opportunity to attend court hearings

Job summary

A leading law firm in Amsterdam seeks a part-time law assistant to support its litigation practice. The role involves research, preparation of documents, and collaboration with lawyers. Ideal candidates are proactive Master's students with strong academic records and excellent language skills.

Qualifications

• Master's student with a strong academic record.
• Fluent in Dutch and English.

Responsibilities

• Conduct literature and case law research.
• Prepare presentations and memos.
• Assist lawyers in daily practice activities.

Skills

Attention to detail

Team collaboration

Organizational skills

Proactivity

Flexibility

Education

Master's degree in Law

Job description

You will be employed as a law assistant on a part-time basis, for 15 hours per week, for a period of at least six months.

The practice

Firmly embedded in our 150+ litigation practice, our Intellectual Property practice is uniquely positioned to handle the most complex, multidisciplinary, and international matters with an IP angle.

Unlike any other firm in the Netherlands, we have the strength and capability to deal with all aspects of complex IP litigation, and alongside our groundbreaking cases before the European Court of Justice, we have been involved in most of the landmark decisions heard by the Dutch Supreme Court in the past five years.

We offer our clients targeted legal and broad sector knowledge across the full scope of healthcare, life sciences, food and beverages, luxury goods, retail, telecommunication, ICT, energy, transportation, chemical, materials, banking, and insurance sectors.

What you can expect as a law assistant

You will be working in a pool together with other law assistants of the practice. Your activities as a law assistant consist of a combination of ‘know-how’ related work and assisting lawyers in the group’s daily practice, including literature and case law research, the preparation of presentations, memos, and research for internal and external publications.

As a law assistant, you will be able to participate fully in all of our educational and social programmes, both those which are practice-specific and those arranged for the whole firm. You will also participate in our Introduction Day and have the opportunity to meet other colleagues starting at the same time, in different roles across the firm. Ideally, you will share a room with one of our lawyers and be able to accompany them to court hearings and client meetings.

To ensure the health, safety, and wellbeing of all employees and to comply with national restrictions during the pandemic, remote working or a hybrid arrangement may be necessary. We use the latest tools and applications to connect, collaborate, and work together and ask for your flexibility and tenacity to embrace whatever the current remote or hybrid working arrangements may be at the time you start.

The requirements

If you are:

• a Master's student with a strong academic record;
• eager and excited to learn;
• meticulous and well-organized;
• proactive and flexible;
• interested in corporate law;
• a great team player;
• enthusiastic and driven;
• and have excellent Dutch and English language skills,

then we very much look forward to hearing from you.