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Global General Counsel provides legal guidance and expertise to Deloitte Global, the broader Deloitte organization, and our business leaders. We advise on regulatory, claims, and corporate legal matters, as well as additional issues that may pose novel or unique situations.
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Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
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We are looking for a Legal Support Specialist to join the legal team at Deloitte Global. An ideal candidate is someone who is a fast learner, is willing to roll up his/her sleeves and work collaboratively across a wide variety of legal areas, and who takes initiative to identify and solve problems.
This Legal Support Specialist provides an excellent opportunity to learn about the many aspects of Deloitte’s business. The position requires the individual to perform assignments that are varied and complex in nature supporting primarily the attorneys in the Corporate and Technology & Shared Services teams of DTTL OGC.
Responsibilities include:
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Creating and overseeing a legal department calendar
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Tracking and monitoring legal entities and required filing dates
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Maintaining an electronic filing system for legal department records via the document management system, ensuring that files are accessible and easy to find
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Maintain repository of templates used by attorneys in the supported teams
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Developing and maintaining legal department resources, playbooks, and compliance guides
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Researching legal and commercial rules, regulations, and statutes
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Preparing internal and external correspondence and managing signatures
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Monitoring legal department inboxes
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Managing mailings
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Supporting the Legal Department in department and organization-wide initiatives and multi-departmental projects, as needed
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Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
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Proven experience in a law-firm or in-house legal department supporting a legal or compliance function
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Team player with excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively with clients and counsel
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Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously through prioritization and expectation management
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Strong writing and analytical skills
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Detail-oriented with excellent organizational skills
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Self-starter who is excited to manage a wide array of responsibilities
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Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
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Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. Bringing your individual skills and experience, and sharing your specialist knowledge, is how you’ll make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.
Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.
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Location: UK Wide
Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You’ll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.
You’ll be joining one of our innovative virtual communities. Which means you’ll be part of the Deloitte Global team. You’ll spend most of your time working from home like all of your UK colleagues in the Enabling Functions, or in a local collaboration space when needed. Our hybrid-working model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both a virtual and physical capacity.
You’ll have all the support you need to succeed, including robust tech and home workstation set-up guidance, as well as access to a variety of flexible working spaces and all sorts of social activities for you to join. We’re continually innovating our working practices too, so you can expect to see new and exciting technology developments coming soon. The future of work is evolving fast and we’re already leading the way by enabling flexibility for our people and making it easy for us all to connect and collaborate.
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Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.
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A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.
Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers
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