Paralegal (Sanctions)

Peters & Peters is a specialist law firm for heavyweight international disputes. Clients come to us in serious situations, when reputation, livelihood and liberty are at risk.

Founded in 1938, we established the first dedicated business crime team in London. We are now the largest such specialist team in Europe, augmented by top-ranked compliance, civil fraud and commercial disputes capability.

Clients include multinational corporations and financial institutions, governments, and high net worth individuals and families all over the world. We are currently representing clients in Asia-Pacific, Africa, Americas, Middle East, Russia/CIS, Europe and the UK. Our 70+ legal team speaks 20 major languages, and often works in politically sensitive circumstances.

Our cases are often high profile, complex and international. Key practice areas include anti-money laundering; bribery and corruption; commercial and trust litigation; corporate investigations, criminal antitrust (cartels); cross-border issues (including extradition, INTERPOL and mutual legal assistance); economic sanctions; financial regulation; fraud (civil and criminal); insider dealing; international asset-tracing and tax investigations. 

The firm is based in the heart of the legal community on Fetter Lane, and we pride ourselves on our welcoming, supportive and collegiate environment, exposure to high quality work and the opportunity to work and learn from lawyers at the very top of their field.

Peters & Peters have been ranked 'top tier' by the leading directories across its practice for many years. Our renowned Business Crime lawyers specialise in anti-money laundering; bribery and corruption; commercial and trust litigation; corporate investigations, criminal antitrust (cartels); cross-border issues (including extradition and mutual legal assistance); economic sanctions; financial regulation; fraud (criminal and civil); insider dealing; international asset-tracing and tax investigations.

Other information

Role overview

We seek an experienced and enthusiastic Paralegal to support our contentious and non-contentious work on international economic sanctions and export controls, principally within the Business Crime Department.  The role would require strong research skills and the ability to interpret, digest and understand technical areas of law alongside navigating between legal systems worldwide and the ability to keep up with fast moving and complex legal developments. The ideal candidate will also have experience of civil or criminal litigation. 

Duties

Typical duties are likely to include:

Managing large quantities of documents (both historical documents and incoming new material);

Maintaining spreadsheets;

Producing case material summaries;

Attending and taking notes at client meetings, court or during conference calls;

Drafting memos and correspondence;

Producing hard copy bundles;

Liaising with Counsel;

Legal research; and

General administration, as required.

Required skills and qualities

The successful candidate will possess the following skills and qualities:

A very strong academic background, including a law degree or GDL and the LPC or BPTC;

At least 12 months previous contentious/criminal paralegal experience (ideally in the context of litigation);

A keen interest in law and a strong work ethic;

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, together with a high standard of written and spoken English;

Strong IT skills including a good working knowledge of all the Microsoft Office programmes including Excel;

Experience of using legal databases such as Lexis Nexis, Westlaw and Practical Law;

The ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team;

Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise a constantly changing workload;

Strong attention to detail;

A proactive and positive approach to work.

Additional information

The salary will be dependent on experience and we offer a range of benefits including 25 days annual leave, pension contributions and subsidised gym membership.

Peters & Peters is also committed to diversity and inclusion. If you require any reasonable adjustments to assist you during the recruitment process, please let us know.