Paralegal

The role

Ogier is seeking a Paralegal to join their Finance practice in Hong Kong. This role will provide comprehensive paralegal services and support to fee earners and clients within the Banking and Finance team.

What you'll do

• Undertake work in support of a team of fee earners, meeting an agreed target chargeable hours
• Assist the team with team-specific financials/matter management e.g. budgets, WIP, aged debt reporting
• Undertake various searches at the request of fee-earners
• Draft, amend and translate legal documents at the request of fee-earners
• Act as primary line of communication between fee-earners and clients
• Ensure that all new client matters are accurately set up in the client accounting and database system
• Maintain and amend client records and contact names where appropriate
• Ensure files are kept up to date (including filing of documents, emails and correspondence) when active and that files are closed/archived once the matter is concluded following instruction from the relevant fee-earner
• Undertake and manage client specific BD arrangements for fee-earners, when necessary
• Delegate certain administration tasks received from the fee-earners as per the specific team workflow model
• Provide complete assistance to all fee-earners and clients regarding various legal issues
• Lead the way with innovation, technology and tools by supporting and trialling new initiatives
• Act as primary contact for team-specific legal and business services queries as the embedded team support
• Screen incoming telephone calls, taking and relaying accurate messages where necessary
• Arrange and set up conference and outgoing calls for the team
• Identify and retrieve information necessary to support legal decision-making
• Undertake such other duties as the firm may reasonably require from time to time

What we're looking for