Hogan Lovells

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Job Title

Team Leader – 12 Months Fixed Term Contract

Department

Legal Delivery Centre (UK)

Office Location

Birmingham

Reports To

Legal Delivery Centre Manager and Legal Delivery Manager

Working Hours

35 hours per week, 9:30am to 5:30pm but additional hours may be required. We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns. Our approach to hybrid working allows for up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the office, please contact a member of the recruitment team to discuss further.

Firm Description

Hogan Lovells is one of the leading global law firms. Our distinctive market position is founded on our exceptional breadth of our practice, on deep industry knowledge, and on our 'one team' global approach. Formed through the combination of two top international law firms, Hogan Lovells has over 40 offices in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

With a presence in the world's major financial and commercial markets, we are well placed to provide excellent business-oriented advice to our clients locally and internationally. Our people are the key to our success, which is why we seek to recruit and retain the most talented individuals in all regions of our global practice.

In the UK Hogan Lovells has offices in Birmingham and London. The Birmingham office opened in 2015 and has a number of practice areas including Corporate/Commercial, Construction, Finance, Litigation, Arbitration and Employment (LAE) and Real Estate, as well as our Legal Delivery Centre and Business Team.

Department Description

The Financial Times has ranked Hogan Lovells as one of the most innovative law firms in Europe – the firm was ranked second overall in the 2020 FT Innovative Lawyers Europe report. It is the fifth year running that Hogan Lovells has been ranked in the top ten most innovative law firms in Europe.

We understand the powerful forces transforming the delivery of our services today, and we embrace that change. We don’t just claim to be innovative, we show it. One of the ways we show it is through the ongoing and ever-expanding growth of the Legal Delivery Centre (LDC), located in Birmingham. Our LDC team is energetic, fast paced and innovative. They work seamlessly with our partners and lawyers on city grade work across our practice groups, as an extension of our London office as well as also supporting our other offices around the world.

This team is a key component in the transformation of the way we deliver our services today and we support our lawyers and partners in delivering the highest quality of work and putting clients at the center of everything we do. We are always looking for ways to improve our delivery and the whole team are encouraged to contribute new and innovative ideas. This is a great place for ambitious professionals who are looking to develop their skills and experience and have a keen interest in supporting the firm in continuing to be at the forefront of innovative delivery of our services.

Role Overview

The Team Leader will join the LDC management team, providing hands on, day to day supervision and project management of our paralegal teams (both permanent and contract paralegals) on all projects, including document review and due diligence projects for all the firm’s Practice Groups. The role offers a broad range of work and exposure to different sectors.

Working closely with the management team and our wider Legal Operations team, the Team Leader will develop their practical knowledge and experience of cutting edge legal technology to help maximise the efficiency of the services the LDC delivers. This includes AI document review and automated contract drafting tools.

Additional assistance with business development, marketing and recruitment may also be required.

Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities

• Supervise teams of paralegals on multiple projects, to include briefing the paralegals to ensure they understand the instructions provided, allocation of work, quality checking work, dealing with queries and general day to day supervision as well as having pastoral and professional development conversations.
• As part of the management team, assist to ensure projects meet their given deadlines and are within their cost estimates, to ensure the client's needs and expectations are met and managed at all times.
• Support the LDC management team with development of guidance notes and best practice documentation.
• Assist with preparation of briefing notes and worked examples, as required.
• Coordinate work with outside vendors, including adherence to strict deadlines.
• As part of the management team and in collaboration with other HL teams, help develop own and the team's practical knowledge and experience with legal technology tools, such as those used for automated contract review and contract drafting.
• Maintain confidentiality of client information.
• Assist with the resourcing of project within the LDC team.

Specific duties or responsibilities may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changes in personnel and management structure, staff location or services.

All members of the firm participate in our Responsible Business program.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

• UK or Foreign Qualified Solicitor (with a current practicing certificate) or CILEX lawyer.
• Experience in supervision of paralegals, whether on a temporary or permanent basis is essential.
• Previous experience in multiple disciplines, for example Litigation and Corporate or Real Estate practice areas would be a distinct advantage.

General Attributes

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and strong organisational skills.
• Strong computer skills, including proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, and the ability to locate specific items on the internet.
• Strong writing and editing skills.
• Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment with or without direct supervision and coordinate multiple projects.

Agile Working Statement

Our goal is to embed flexibility across our business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.

Equal Opportunities Employment Statement

It is the policy of Hogan Lovells to provide equal opportunities for all employees in relation to recruitment, training and promotion. Decisions in these areas will be made only by reference to the requirements of the job and shall not be influenced by any consideration of racial or ethnic origin, religion, sex , gender and gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital and civil partnership status, pregnancy or disability.