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Legal Assistant / Junior Paralegal - South Africa - Regulatory Affairs Investigations

We're looking for a Legal Assistant / Junior Paralegal to join our fantastic global team supporting investigation workflows for a leading technology company's Regulatory Affairs Investigations team. This team, part of the Legal function, manages a wide range of workforce investigations—from misconduct and workplace issues to financial fraud, compliance, data security, conflicts of interest, and more.

You’ll join the team that will play a critical role in coordinating internal investigations worldwide, handling everything from intake and triage to document review and reporting.

You’ll be the backbone of the Investigations team, ensuring smooth operations through structured, playbook-driven tasks. Your responsibilities will include:

• Intake & Triage: Case creation, logging, document intake, call handling, categorisation, routing, and deadline scheduling.
• Evidence Collection & Preservation: Organising files, logging evidence, managing legal holds, and supporting discovery requests.
• Interview Support: Scheduling, note‑taking, transcript preparation, and logistics coordination.
• Low‑Level Investigations: Handling low‑risk cases, conducting basic reviews, and closing out investigations.
• Case Closure & Archiving: Completing checklists, archiving documents, and tracking metrics.
• Compliance Monitoring: Sending reminders, tracking actions, generating reports, and maintaining templates.
• Cross‑Functional Support: Policy distribution, knowledge base updates, meeting coordination, and surge staffing for simple investigations.
• Administrative Tasks: Time tracking, expense processing, vendor coordination, and access management.

Most importantly: a can‑do attitude!

This is a new team with room to grow, so we’re seeking individuals who are eager to learn, develop, and make an impact.

• 1+ years in administration, legal operations, or general operations support (corporate/professional services preferred)
• Strong organisational and administrative skills
• Ability to follow structured processes and suggest improvements
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Collaborative problem‑solving approach
• Bonus but not essential: Fluency in Mandarin, Japanese, Spanish, or French

This is a full time role. You will work alongside your colleagues on a hybrid schedule (3 days per week) from LOD’s new Cape town office.

People come to us for a whole range of reasons – they might be looking for time for their interests, for work alongside other projects, or just want a change. What they all have in common is a desire for high quality work coupled with a degree of control that traditional models can’t offer, but LOD can.

All of our LODs have worked at top tier firms or as part of major in‑house teams. We only accept a small percentage of applications as we choose lawyers who are not only technically excellent, but who can work seamlessly with our client’s teams. This ensures we can offer our lawyers consistently high‑quality assignments.

We can offer:

• Varied, challenging, career‑enhancing work with market leading brands (from Google to Barclays, and Amex to adidas) as well as exciting growth companies.
• Flexibility and autonomy: you can work anything from full‑time on site with a client to a few hours each week from home.
• Training and know‑how, as well as support from our dedicated HQ Team.
• A variety of flexible models that include working at the client’s offices or remotely.

LOD is the leading flexible legal service provider across ten locations: Brisbane, Hong Kong, London, Melbourne, New York, Perth, Singapore, Dubai, Munich and Sydney. We are changing the way in which clients buy legal services and provide talented lawyers with a new way of working.

We’ve achieved some of the fastest growth in our sector by creating and leading a new professional service category. That growth continues as we launch new services, responding to the way our lawyers want to work and clients want to engage them. This role offers an opportunity to be part of this story.

LOD has caught the imagination of the changing legal marketplace for ‘new law’ services. We now have a team of around 600 lawyers and consultants of the highest quality working across the globe. We have an inspiring client list that range from globally recognised multinationals to start‑ups and include the likes of Google, Barclays and adidas.