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Paralegal – Commercial Property (12 month FTC)

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You will report to the Head of Legal Outdoor, UK and Ireland

Overview of role

Join Global’s friendly and collaborative legal team to support the Outdoor advertising division with a focus on its commercial property portfolio (you’ll see Global’s large advertising billboards all over the streets of London and other cities and towns - those all require contracts!).

This is a paralegal role covering real estate transactions and disputes. Over time, as you develop your experience and knowledge of Global’s business, there will be opportunities to work on commercial contracts and other matters for Outdoor and Global’s wider media business which includes well known radio brands such as Capital, Heart and Classic FM.

The work you do could count as qualifying work experience for the purposes of the SQE route and, for the right candidate, this role has the potential to become permanent.

3 best things about the role

• Experience a wide variety of interesting legal work, contentious and non-contentious

• Learn from a dynamic and encouraging multi-disciplinary legal team (made up of 20 lawyers and compliance managers)

• Be part of a diverse and growing media business!

Measures of success –

In the first few months, you will have

• Undertaken a wide variety of real estate legal work within the Outdoor business.

• Built positive relationships of trust with your legal and business partners including the Outdoor Partnerships team which manages the advertising site portfolio.

• Made valuable contributions to the wider legal function including responding general legal queries, supporting process improvements and document management.

Responsibilities of the role

• Providing legal support to the UK and Ireland Outdoor advertising businesses.

• Drafting and negotiating a broad range of real estate and commercial contracts, such as licenses and leases for advertising panels and confidentiality agreements.

• Completing tasks such as searches on the Land Registry e-services business portal, completing Stamp Duty Land Tax Returns and completing Land Registry applications.

• Supporting the Outdoor Partnerships team to resolve disputes relating to advertising panels with licensors, landlords and advertisers.

• Keeping up to date on changes in the law and legislation.

• Assisting on the standardisation of legal templates.

• Assisting on the delivery of legal training to the Outdoor business.

What you will need

Effective Communication:

• Clearly articulate legal concepts and issues.

• Draft “easy to understand” emails without legal jargon.

• Convey legal advice in a credible and persuasive manner.

• Challenge in a compelling and tactful manner.

Client Partner Focus:

• Understand the business and the driven environment in which it operates.

• Understand and articulate stakeholder needs and expectations and translate these into departmental and business responses.

• Organise workload to ensure matters are prioritised in accordance with the needs of the business.

Collaboration:

• Manage conflicting priorities and focus to reach a positive outcome for all.

• Listen and respond positively to feedback, challenges and compromises.

• Work effectively with others on tasks and seek input and advice from colleagues.

• Brief team members on legal issues and work together to find solutions.

Personal characteristics:

• Have excellent attention to detail and good drafting skills.

• Have excellent organisational and communication skills.

• Be pro-active and pragmatic.

• Be approachable and willing to listen.

• Be customer orientated and have a proven track record at building and maintaining relationships both internally and externally.

• Be able to demonstrate decision-making and prioritisation skills, with limited input and guidance.

• Have a commercial interest and desire to understand the workings of the business.

• Have an ability to anticipate and predict situations and potential problems.

• Have an ability to keep a cool and level head.

• Maintain good working practice with integrity and diplomacy.

• Be a personable individual with a good sense of fun and humour.

• Have an ability to be flexible.

• Be collaborative and willing to help with any departmental activities.

• Be able to think creatively and not be afraid to work in areas of law that are new to you.

Experience:

• Some real estate experience including drafting and negotiating licences and leases.

• Knowledge of basic land law and how to use the Land Registry business e-services portal, when and how to submit Stamp Duty Land Tax Returns and when and how to submit Land Registry applications.

• Experience of dealing with property disputes and property litigation.

• Some in-house paralegal experience (whether gained on a secondment or in employment).

Everyone is welcome at Global

Just like our media and entertainment platforms are for everyone, so are our workplaces. We know that we can’t possibly serve our diverse audiences without first nurturing and celebrating it in our people and that’s why we work hard to create an inclusive culture for everyone. We believe that different will set us apart, so no matter what you look like, where you come from or what your favourite radio station is, we want to hear from you.

Although we cannot make guarantees, we welcome conversations about flexible working for all roles at Global.

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