Litigation Assistant...

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An exciting opportunity has arisen to work on a temporary basis with a leading financial company.

This role will be working with in their legal department specialising in Litigation.

Key accountabilities
• Develop relationships with key internal customers, suppliers, colleagues and peers inside and outside the company (including government and regulatory agencies)
• Work with peers to deliver an efficient and unified dispute resolution service for the retail business which identifies and seeks to ensure compliance with all legal requirements, and identifies and balances legal risks with commercial cases.
• Develop litigation strategies for high volumes cases and individual complex cases
• Manage and run own workload of complex legal cases
• Develop relationships with external law firms
• Develop opportunities for more work to be performed in-house
• Assist the drive for one team approach and integration of the two heritages
• Deal with assigned tasks or progress relevant legal matters and related administration, with oversight as required or agreed with senior team members
• Keep informed of relevant changes in UK and EU law; ensure that legal and commercial colleagues and management are kept up to date
• Assist in ensuring that legal risk issues are identified and managed in a way that supports achievement of business goals

Oral communication, Organisational awareness, Procedural/Product/Specialist knowledge, Self/Work organisation, Written communication

Keys skills
• Procedural / Product / Specialist knowledge, Self/Work organisation

Reed Specialist Recruitment Limited is an employment agency and employment business

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