Job Description

As one of the world's leading Global law firms, that has a a foodpring across all major regions and a staff compliment of over 5000individuals. With more than 3100 lawyers and 2000 business services professionals. Operating across Europe, Asia Pacific, North America, the Middle East are looking for a Manager (Disputes) within their Legal Process Outsourcing Team. This opportunity is within a highly performance based environment and provides rewards and opportunities that are uniquely customised to your personal and professional goals.

The Legal Process Outsourcing delivers high quality, cost-efficient legal services for document or information intensive, defined process work.
The team works in a complementary and seamless way, offering a combination of legal expertise, process efficiency and client technology solutions to our clients.
The key products and services of the Legal Process Outsourcing Services business include document review, regulatory claims assessment, due diligence, verification commercial contracts, funds' repapering, client technology services (including advisory and document review software) and asset management for real estate clients.

The focus will centre around the Firms expertise in complex large scale document reviews, sensitive and time critical investigations and regulatory matters, consumer claims assessments and volume claims management. The teams work closely with and provide support to other practice groups and are continually expanding their service offerings. With experts in complex review elements including legal professional privilege, commercial sensitivity and data protection working across all industry sectors including financial services, energy, retail, TMT and construction.

The Role

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 Herbert Smith Freehills 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 quality standards
• On appropriate projects, as required, working directly with other practices groups in our global network to deliver high quality support to clients and the firms 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: ZAR 0.00 - ZAR 0.00 ANNUAL

Duration: FULL_TIME

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