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• Dealing with complex legal matters or generally as directed by Solicitors, Senior Solicitors, Managers and Senior Managers.
• Conducting document review, due diligence and other fee-earning work as required.
• Undertake Quality Control and provide constructive feedback to reviewers to ensure that output is consistent with HSF quality standards.
• Undertake project management for matters: create standardised processes and implement a common set of principles, practices and templates for managing and reporting.
• Support the effective delivery of complex legal matters by implementing appropriate systems and/or technology to streamline tasks and deliver efficiencies.
• Providing general support to the Manager, Senior Solicitors and Solicitors in the delivery of matters – including, where appropriate, liaising with the instructing team and/or external client.
• Ensuring compliance with financial disciplines on matters (e.g. daily time-recording, WIP reporting).
• Providing other assistance to the business on client matters and related tasks as required.
• Taking initiative to apply previous experience to assist in efficient running of matters.
• Actively engage in problem solving on matters.
• Maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of relevant areas of law to the local office's practice.

• Be a penultimate or final year law or LLM student with a law degree, or
• Be a Graduate with a qualifying Law degree (including PGDL);
• Have A Level (or equivalent) - minimum of BBB or 120+ UCAS points (equates to 300 UCAS points under the previous tariff) and evidence consistent 2:1s throughout your degree, but we do take mitigating circumstances into account;
• Demonstrate an ability to review, analyse and organise documentary and factual evidence;
• Have excellent organisational and communication skills;
• Show an eye for detail, aiming to get it right first time;
• Be committed to delivering excellent client service through understanding the client context, building relationships, and taking a commercial approach; and
• Have an aptitude for learning (and becoming proficient in) the use of software and IT applications, and using software tools intelligently to navigate large databases/document management systems.

The decision to open an office in Belfast was driven by a wish to further enhance what is already a pre-eminent global dispute resolution practice. We have recruited a number of highly capable lawyers and legal assistants to work closely with the London team to manage the major international litigation and arbitration cases that the firm is famous for. The focus of the team is the documentary analysis critical to the investigation of matters and cases. Our offering in Belfast further enhances the quality and efficiency of our service and price competitiveness to clients.

With nearly 5,000 staff, including 2,800 lawyers, Herbert Smith Freehills is one of the largest, fully-integrated law firms in the world and is the leading firm in Asia Pacific.

We advise many of the largest and most ambitious organisations across all major regions of the world. Our reputation for providing outstanding legal expertise is thoroughly deserved: we are globally pre-eminent in all forms of dispute resolution and an international leader in corporate and finance. We are one of the world's top-ranked energy and resources firms. We offer our clients a top-tier capability across a single global platform with a distinctive focus on industry sectors and an un-paralleled depth of expertise.

Join us, and you will work with inspiring people, many of whom are leaders in their fields. You will be faced with demanding and intellectually stimulating work that will require more than just technical ability. You will need to have a sense of the bigger picture, the ability to cut to the heart of the matter and a gift for developing exceptional working relationships. With more than 20 offices across the globe in fast-growing markets like China, Indonesia and Russia and established centres like the UK, Europe, the US and Australia, we can offer you the international opportunities that only a leading global practice can provide.

We recognise that the success of our business and our clients relies on the skills, knowledge and ideas of all our people. Our environment is one in which high performance is expected, in return, we will provide you with rewards and opportunities tailored to your personal and professional goals.

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