Job Description

Job Description

Lawyers on Demand, a Consilio Company, is one of the largest and fastest growing global legal services businesses, and as a ‘new law’ pioneer, we continue to lead the market we’ve created.

With a global team of over 600 attorneys and consultants working across our secondments, legal advisory services, and legal operations & tech solutions, we want you to be a part of our exciting journey!

Who are we looking for?

We have a strong pipeline of exciting and career-enhancing full-time and part-time assignments across the Biotech, Marketing, Fintech, Consumer Goods, Pharma and Technology sectors, and we're interested in hearing from Litigation Paralegals to join us and commence their LOD journey.

A highly regarded financial services company is currently seeking skilled applicants for their opening as a Litigation Paralegal. This is a hybrid, temp-to-perm role. Preferred candidates will have a financial services background, along with prior experience with commercial & business litigation and experience representing large corporations.

This role primarily supports the Litigation & Regulatory teams of attorneys who handle litigation, arbitration, and regulatory legal matters.

• Contract pay starting at $45/hour
• Temp-to-Hire
• Hybrid - required to work at an on-site location for at least one week, every two weeks.
• 40 hours per week
• ASAP start date

The Purpose of Your Role

As part of the Legal Department, the paralegal will be a member of a larger paralegal team which serves as a central resource providing support across practice groups particularly Litigation and Regulatory. Responsibilities include matter management, client and customer research, and supporting all phases of litigation, arbitration and regulatory matters. The role exposes the paralegal to a variety of business units, personnel, products and services. The successful candidate will be capable of executing in a fast-paced and deadline-driven environment.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 10+ years of paralegal experience
• Paralegal certification a plus
• Your ability and willingness to work independently but also as part of a team where steady collaboration is critical
• Your ability to understand business unit functions and engage company personnel in a productive and collaborative way
• Your ability to analyze complex legal requests and research tasks
• Your critical thinking skills with good judgment and initiative
• Your strong attention to detail and ability to follow detailed and complex processes
• Your ability to communicate clearly and effectively
• Your ability to function at a high level in a dynamic and challenging work environment
• Your strong organizational skills to meet deadlines and accurately track voluminous records
• Your ability to quickly adapt to and utilize new and changing technology
• Your experience with Discovery review tools
• Your proficiency in MS Office products, particularly Excel for document tracking and data analytics
• Your proficiency with Adobe

No assignment or day is ever the same. Our clients are large national and international companies. This is a great opportunity to diversify your experience and bolster your CV through a career with LOD. These assignments are of varied durations, ranging anywhere from 3-6 months initially or long term.

What sets us apart?

People join us for a range of reasons - the life of an LOD professional is like no other.

• CV-enhancing work with global brands: We provide our people with varied, challenging, career-enhancing work with world-class global brands, allowing them to take control of their career and diversify their experience across a range of industries.
• No limits: We’ve helped open doors, break glass ceilings, facilitate the transition from private practice to in-house, and develop career pathways to become a GC. Whatever direction you want to take your career, we can help you get there.
• You call the shots: We take work-life balance pretty seriously. You can work on-site with our clients or remotely, undertake full-time or part-time assignments, or assignments that are for set months of a year – it's your choice!
• You’re never on your own: Throughout your LOD career, you’ll become part of a community. You’ll be supported by your LOD colleagues and our HQ team, LOD social events, and receive training opportunities to assist in your ongoing growth and development.
• Our Ways Of Working help shape who we are and what we do: we deliver, we are creative, we are inclusive, we care & collaborate, and we are trusted.
• We’re global: LOD can provide you with local, interstate and international working opportunities.

LOD is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Diversity and inclusion is a core part of our Ways of Working, and we celebrate and embrace it. We know the individual differences of our people make us collectively better and we encourage all applicants; including people with disability, career breaks, gender diverse, LGBTQIA, and culturally diverse communities to join us so we can do great things together.

Company Description

Lawyers on Demand, a Consilio company, is a global leader in legal staffing, eDiscovery, risk management, and legal consulting services. The company supports multinational law firms and corporations by providing identifying and sourcing talented individuals for staffing needs, using innovative software, combining deep legal and regulatory industry expertise and excellent client service.

Company Description

Lawyers on Demand, a Consilio company, is a global leader in legal staffing, eDiscovery, risk management, and legal consulting services. The company supports multinational law firms and corporations by providing identifying and sourcing talented individuals for staffing needs, using innovative software, combining deep legal and regulatory industry expertise and excellent client service.