Paralegal - Employment
DAC Beachcroft
Full-time
On-site
City of London, England, United Kingdom
Paralegal - Employment
Department: Employment, Pensions and Immigration - London
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: London
Description
The London Employment team acts for a range of market leading clients across the financial services, healthcare and commercial sectors. The team has a strong and growing reputation in the London market and is recognised as Band/Tier 1 in both the latest Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 UK rankings.
The team has a strong reputation in the London market, acting for a stable of significant financial services clients and household name corporates as well as being a market leader in the public and independent health sectors.
For more information on our Employment and Pensions expertise please go to https://www.dacbeachcroft.com/en/gb/expertise/services/employment-and-pensions/
The team proudly boasts a market-leading Employment Privacy practice, including a bespoke and innovative data subject access request (DSAR) service to complement its employment offering. We are looking for a paralegal to focus on supporting the expansion of the DSAR service alongside undertaking other document management activities and tasks as required.
Key Responsibilities
- Conducting the first level review of data subject access requests (DSARs) under data protection legislation, with a view to taking greater responsibility and ownership for DSAR review exercises over time.
- Undertaking a wide range of document management activities, including disclosure tasks in litigated cases with a particular focus on more complex and document-heavy exercises.
- Both may involve formulating and applying search terms to electronically held data provided by the client, sifting and reviewing raw data for relevance (whether through e-discovery platforms or other electronic means), identifying non-relevant/privileged/business confidential material, collation, redaction and indexing ready for production, and working collaboratively with clients' IT / discovery management personnel.
- Ad hoc tasks related to litigation, including preparing bundles of documents for hearings, checking the availability of witnesses, liaising with the Tribunal and third parties and assisting with the drafting of certain correspondence and documents.
- Regular liaison with other paralegals, trainees and lawyers to ensure the efficient management of caseloads and deadlines.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- A good academic record with a 2.1 in Law or a related subject.
- Previous experience of working as a paralegal within an employment team.
- Preferably with practical experience of handling larger scale disclosure and/or employee DSARs under data protection legislation, including the core steps as set out in the section above.
- Familiarity with e-disclosure tools and platforms would also be preferable, but not essential.
- A confident communicator.
- Able to deal effectively with internal and external contacts with strong verbal and written communication.
- Close attention to detail and an eye for quality