Job Description

Alternative Legal Processing Service - Large Law Firm - Sandton

Lawyers will be part of our legal team, working closely with Managers, Senior Lawyers, Lawyers, Trainees and Legal Analysts.

Note that limited travel, to the offices or to clients, may be required from time to time.

Key Responsibilities

• Conducting document review, due diligence or other practice area-specific fee-earning work (there will be target average daily chargeable hours)
• Undertake Quality Control and provide constructive feedback to reviewers to ensure that output is consistent with HSF quality standards
• On appropriate projects, as required, working directly with other HSF practice groups in our global network to deliver high quality support to clients and HSF legal teams
• On appropriate projects, as required, supervising Legal Analysts in relation to individual matters, dealing with complex legal matters or generally as directed by Senior Lawyers, Managers or Senior Managers of the Disputes practice group
• As and when required, conducting claims management for major corporate entities.
• As and when required, conducting case assessments in respect of claims arising out of Group Litigation Orders and Remediation schemes
• Maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of areas of law relevant to the practice
• Ensuring compliance with financial disciplines on matters (e.g. daily time recording).
• Providing any other assistance to the business on client matters and related tasks as required.
• The responsibilities outlined above cannot totally encompass or define all tasks that may be required of the post-holder. The outline of responsibilities given above may, therefore, vary from time to time

Qualifications, skills and experience

Essential

• Admitted as an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa (but other major common law jurisdictions may be considered).
• Minimum of 2 years' PQE gained within a commercial litigation.

Desirable

• Knowledge and experience of legal work for the Disputes practice group, for example large scale document review, with the ability to project manage the process from instruction to completion.

Salary: Market Related

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