Legal Secretary jobs in Singapore

Kennedys Legal Solutions is looking for a professional with experience in insurance or dispute resolution to join our Singapore office. The Insurance, Reinsurance & Cyber team handles a combination of advisory and contentious work (arbitrations) in relation to some of the largest insurance and reinsurance matters in Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa.

The successful candidate will gain experience of advising insurance and reinsurance sector clients on coverage matters (across the range of insurance risks underwritten in the APAC region including, but not limiting to, financial lines, directors and offices, professional indemnity, crime/BBB, cyber policies); be involved in monitoring complex commercial disputes and managing cyber incident responses. The exposure of work also includes advising on subrogated recoveries. The successful candidate will work directly for the Partner in this team and will have regular contact with clients both in Singapore and internationally.

Experience of insurance/reinsurance claims and/or disputes and/or cyber incident response is significantly preferred, but not essential as this team (and Kennedys in general) has a proven track record of training professionals in this area. The successful candidate will have sound basic practical problem solving and legal skills and a drive to develop specialist knowledge within the market leading team for Insurance and Reinsurance in the region.

This is a unique opportunity for a bright and ambitious lawyer keen on working in a market leading and international team within a global law firm. The successful applicant will be exposed to a wide range of international work.

Kennedys Singapore office was established in 2008 and in 2015 entered into a joint law venture (JLV) with local Singapore law firm, Legal Solutions to create Kennedys Legal Solutions. Kennedys Legal Solutions is the Singapore office of the international law firm Kennedys which has 45 offices around the world.

We pride ourselves on helping our clients navigate both business and legal challenges throughout the Asia Pacific region and across multiple practice areas, with a strong focus in both the commercial and insurance/reinsurance sector. We provide a seamless suite of services across both English and Singapore law and are closely connected with our offices in Hong Kong, Australia and the Middle East, as well as partner firms across Asia.

Kennedys’ financial lines team deal with all areas of financial lines and professional liability matters handling claims of all sizes and complexities and the role has become available due to an exciting time of growth.

• Insurers and reinsurers
• Lloyds syndicates
• Global composites

• Advising insurers on complex coverage issues
• Monitoring litigation in various jurisdictions in Asia; prosecuting and defending arbitrations
• Attending to subrogated recoveries

• Minimum of 3 years' law firm experience, but we are open to applications from more experienced professionals with the applicable experience and ambition*
• Qualified in Singapore and/or common law jurisdiction, ideally England & Wales / Australia
• Excellent academics
• Demonstrable research, writing and communication skills
• International arbitration experience preferred
• Advantageous to have insurance experience, ideally coverage, across financial lines and professional indemnity

* where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.

** Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.