Peters & Peters is a specialist law firm for heavyweight international disputes. Clients come to us in serious situations, when reputation, livelihood and liberty are at risk.
Founded in 1938, we established the first dedicated business crime team in London. We are now the largest such specialist team in Europe, augmented by top-ranked compliance, civil fraud and commercial disputes capability.
Clients include multinational corporations and financial institutions, governments, and high net worth individuals and families all over the world. We are currently representing clients in Asia-Pacific, Africa, Americas, Middle East, Russia/CIS, Europe and the UK. Our 70+ legal team speaks 20 major languages, and often works in politically sensitive circumstances.
Our cases are often high profile, complex and international. Key practice areas include anti-money laundering; bribery and corruption; commercial and trust litigation; corporate investigations, criminal antitrust (cartels); cross-border issues (including extradition, INTERPOL and mutual legal assistance); economic sanctions; financial regulation; fraud (civil and criminal); insider dealing; international asset-tracing and tax investigations.
The firm is based in the heart of the legal community on Fetter Lane, and we pride ourselves on our welcoming, supportive and collegiate environment, exposure to high quality work and the opportunity to work and learn from lawyers at the very top of their field. |
Role overview
An opportunity has arisen for a Paralegal who speaks fluent Russian and Ukrainian to join our Paralegal team, assisting both our Business Crime and Commercial Litigation/Civil Fraud departments.
Your main responsibility will be to provide legal, administrative as well as interpreting and translating support to fee-earners.You may also be asked to draft research memos on a wide range of issues as they arise in the course of litigation or advising clients. Other work may include making detailed notes of meetings and conference calls with clients, Counsel and other third parties. Effective communications skills are therefore essential, together with a very high standard of written and spoken English, as well as fluent Russian and Ukrainian.
Ideally you will be bi-lingual, or you will have degree level Russian or Ukrainian. Alternatively, if Russian or Ukrainian is your first language, it is essential that you have lived and worked in the UK for at least 1 year, in order to demonstrate a sophisticated knowledge of colloquial English, as well as a thorough understanding of both cultures.
Required skills and qualities
The successful candidate will possess the following skills and qualities:
- Excellent written and spoke English and fluent in both Russian and Ukrainian.
- A very strong academic background, including a law degree or GDL and the LPC or BPTC;
- At least 12 months previous contentious/criminal paralegal experience (ideally in the context of litigation);
- Familiarity with eDisclosure platforms (such as Relativity);
- A keen interest in criminal law and a strong work ethic;
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, together with a high standard of written and spoken English;
- Strong IT skills including a good working knowledge of all the Microsoft Office programmes including Excel;
- Experience of using legal databases such as Lexis Nexis, Westlaw and Practical Law;
- The ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team;
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise a constantly changing workload;
- Strong attention to detail;
- A proactive and positive approach to work.
Additional information
The salary will be dependent on experience and we offer a range of benefits including 25 days annual leave, pension contributions and subsidised gym membership.
Peters & Peters is also committed to diversity and inclusion. If you require any reasonable adjustments to assist you during the recruitment process, please let us know. |