Financial Services - Knowledge Legal Assistant (Paralegal) - London

Financial Services - Knowledge Legal Assistant ( (12 month FTC) – London

Join our fast-expanding Financial Services Knowledge Team as a Knowledge Legal Assistant and play a vital role in equipping our lawyers with the information and support they need to deliver excellent service to our clients. 

This role will initially be a 12-month FTC and is based in our London office.

About CMS

CMS is a Future Facing firm with more than 70 offices in over 40 countries and 5,000+ lawyers worldwide. We combine deep local market understanding with a global perspective. We are passionate about building strong relationships with our clients, our people, and the communities we work in.

We take a bold, dynamic, and agile approach to ensure our clients are able to face the future with confidence. We are driven by technology and readily embrace the possibilities it opens up for developing new and better ways of working.  Our aim is to inspire, impact and support our clients and our people, helping them to maximize their potential and thrive.

About the Role

Our diverse regulatory team covers both non-contentious/regulatory work. Most of our clients are leading firms in their sectors, although we also act for dozens of new start-ups/FinTech companies. 

We are looking for someone who can provide high-quality and efficient support to the Head of Financial Services Knowledge, as well as our Partners and fee-earners. You will be working on a wide range of interesting and complex regulatory issues as well as supporting our business development.

 
You will get involved a wide variety of work including:
•    Legal research projects
•    Compiling daily regulatory updates
•    Responsibility for RegZone (our dedicated financial services website)
•    Helping to update and maintain our tool for tracking financial services regulatory developments
•    Maintaining a precedents database
•    Writing articles for Law-Now and RegZone
•    Helping with client work 

About You

To flourish in this role from day one, you will be Law graduate.  If you can also bring your strong communication skills, proactivity and a willingness to learn and collaborate, we would love to hear from you. 

Equal Opportunities

At CMS, a next-generation mindset is woven into all we do. We're diverse, supportive and inclusive, embracing our corporate social responsibility and creating a culture of sustainability in which every one of our people, whatever their background, can maximise their potential and thrive. For further information about CMS' diversity initiatives and programmes, please view the Diversity & Inclusion pages on our website.

Please apply online or contact a member of the Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions. For information regarding our competitive range of benefits please visit our Rewards & Benefits page on our website.

Please note that CMS have a preferred agency panel in place. Only applications submitted via the portal at the point of instruction will be accepted.

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