# Paralegal/Support Lawyer

**Company**: Linklaters
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Legal

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced Paralegal/Support Lawyer with a strong background in drafting, reviewing and negotiating Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) and other commercial contracts to join our team.

The successful candidate will support lawyers and business stakeholders across a broad range of legal matters, ensuring contracts are progressed efficiently and in line with internal policies and risk requirements.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Draft, review and negotiate a high volume of NDAs, confidentiality agreements and other standard commercial contracts, ensuring they align with company policies and risk parameters.

- Support the preparation, review and management of a range of commercial agreements, including supplier, services, consultancy and technology-related contracts.

- Coordinate contract review processes, liaising with legal teams, business stakeholders and external parties to ensure timely execution.

- Identify legal and commercial risks within agreements and escalate non-standard provisions to appropriate legal counsel.

- Maintain and update contract templates, playbooks and precedent documents.

- Manage contract workflows and approval processes, tracking progress against deadlines and ensuring completion of required actions.

- Liaise with internal stakeholders and external counterparties to facilitate the efficient progression of contractual matters.

- Coordinate document execution, filing and contract administration activities, ensuring records are maintained accurately.

- Provide regular updates to stakeholders on contract status, key issues and outstanding actions.

- Contribute to process improvement, knowledge management and legal operations initiatives to drive efficiency and consistency across the team.

**Candidate Requirements**

- LPC, SQE, law degree or (foreign) qualified lawyer.

- At least two years' experience as a Paralegal, Contract Specialist or Support Lawyer within a law firm or in-house legal team.

- Significant experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating NDAs and other commercial agreements.

- Strong understanding of contract review processes, legal documentation and risk identification.

- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build effective relationships and work collaboratively with lawyers, business teams and external counterparties.

- Proven ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced environment.

- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the confidence to engage with stakeholders at all levels.

- Highly organised, proactive and detail-oriented, with a commitment to delivering exceptional service.

- Able to work independently, exercise sound judgement and take ownership of matters from initiation through to completion.

- Experience with contract lifecycle management (CLM) tools and legal technology platforms would be advantageous.

- Ability to work on a hybrid basis, attending the office in line with team and business requirements.

## Skills

### Required
- LPC
- SQE
- law degree
- contract lifecycle management
- legal documentation
- risk identification
- stakeholder management

### Nice to have
- contract lifecycle management (CLM) tools
- legal technology platforms

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