Job Description

Group / Team

Alternative Legal Services

Working pattern

Full Time / Part Time

The opportunity

The Opportunity.

At Herbert Smith Freehills, we are always looking for talented law graduates to join our Alternative Legal Services (ALT) team in Johannesburg. Legal Analysts are part of our legal team, working closely with highly experienced qualified lawyers on the delivery of client work.

You will benefit from exceptional learning and development opportunities working in a team of highly ambitious and collaborative fee-earners. You will gain exposure to a full range of international clients, sectors and industries, and you'll work with some of the very best legal minds around the world as you partner with our practice teams to deliver cutting-edge ALT services to our clients.

Our Respond team members are permanent part-time employees of the Johannesburg office who work on a flexible basis while developing their careers with us. All Respond employees have minimum contracted hours of 7.5 hours per week, although are expected to work more hours than this, often on short notice, as and when required.
The ALT team is located in our Johannesburg office, however, there is flexibility to deliver your role remotely within South Africa, if preferred.

If you would like to be considered for our Respond Legal Analyst role and meet our criteria below, we will invite you to complete our assessment and interview process. As well as working on Disputes matters, you may also have the opportunity to be exposed to Corporate matters as detailed below, dependent on business need:

Dispute Resolution: ALT Disputes is experienced in complex large scale document review, sensitive and time critical investigations and regulatory matters, consumer claims management and large scale remediation schemes. Our teams work closely with and provide support to other Herbert Smith Freehills practice groups and we are continually expanding our service offerings. We are 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.

Corporate: ALT Corporate works closely with HSF's Corporate practice as it guides the world's commercial organisations through all stages of their corporate development, including M&A, capital markets, investment funds, commercial contracts, corporate restructurings and regulatory matters. We also work directly with many of the firm's key clients, supporting them with day-to-day "business-as-usual" legal work, often as a seamless extension to their in-house legal teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Legal Analysts work closely with Lawyers, Legal Managers and Senior Legal Managers and primary responsibilities will include:
• Conducting work, under the supervision of senior lawyers, on large-scale legal matters.
• Maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of relevant areas of law to the Alternative Legal Services practice.
• Ensuring compliance with financial disciplines on matters (e.g. daily time-recording).
• Carry out activities as specified by the project team to ensure the matter and/or project is delivered in an efficient and timely matter.
• Providing general support to the Legal Managers and Lawyers.

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 without materially changing either the character or level of responsibility or grade.

NOTE: We are unable to accept applications from individuals who have been admitted as an Attorney or waiting to be admitted.

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Skills, experience and qualifications

Skills, Experience and Qualifications

• You must be a current graduate of Law (LLB/LLM or equivalent).
• Ability to review, analyse and organise documentary and factual evidence.
• Excellent attention to detail; aims to get it right first time.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Aptitude for learning (and becoming proficient in) the use of software and IT applications, including Relativity, and using search terms intelligently to navigate large databases/document management systems.

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 without materially changing either the character or level of responsibility or grade.

Eligibility:

• Candidates must have completed their LLB and or LLM (or equivalent)
• We are unable to accept applications from individuals who complete their studies later this year 2023 and beyond.
• All applicants must have the legal right to work in South Africa at the time of application.
• We are unable to accept applications from individuals who have been admitted as an Attorney or waiting to be admitted.

Applications for this post close 5pm (SAST) on Friday 8th September 2023.

Group / Team description

Group/Team Description.

Herbert Smith Freehills is one of the world's leading professional services businesses, bringing together the best people across our 27 offices, to meet our clients legal services needs globally. Our Alternative Legal Services (ALT) is a fully-integrated and integral part of Herbert Smith Freehills' internal network. We offer innovative, market-leading solutions in respect of high-volume, document-intensive legal work. By combining cutting-edge technology with legal expertise, we have created a cost-competitive, bespoke offering which is tailored to our clients' requirements.

With teams of lawyers, legal analysts and technologists located across the world, ALT is able to provide a seamless round-the-clock service across a wide range of products and services including Banking, Construction, Energy, Infrastructure, Mining, Government, Technology, Media and Telecommunications, Real Estate and Wealth and Asset Management.

As international leaders in multiple fields of law, we advise some of the world's most influential organisations, undertake pioneering work on the biggest cases and deals and develop innovative approaches on international pro bono and citizenship initiatives. But whether it is the work we are doing or how we are doing it, we are continually redefining what the future of law will be.

Role type

Legal professionals/Practice Group

Contract type

Permanent

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Herbert Smith Freehills

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