Professional Support / Trainee Paralegal - Engineering Group

The Role We are looking for a bright and enthusiastic individual to join our Professional Support team (secretarial, administrative and junior paralegal work) in our central London office. You will directly provide all round first class administrative support to our patent attorney fee earners in the Engineering team. This is a busy role, based in the London Office but supporting some fee earners remotely who are based in our other office. You will be supporting a team of experienced Paralegals who, alongside the Fee Earners, will train you to meet the high standards of performance that is expected.
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Your main responsibilities initially will include, but are not limited to:

• General administration


• Diary management


• Client liaison/meetings/drafting email replies to clients for paralegal approval


• Monitoring emails and ensuring everything is actioned


• Managing deadlines


• Preparing cost estimates for paralegal review


• Generating client letters and emails for fee earner review


• Reminding fee earners when letters are with them and reporting letters to client


• Generating standard email reports for paralegal review and sending to clients


• Reviewing and raising client invoices


• Entering billable charges into our office systems


• Finalising and sending invoices to clients


• Preparing reports


• Preparing status checks
  
  1-2 years' patent secretarial or patent formalities experience is highly preferred, but not essential (particularly if you have a legal secretarial college background).


Candidates will normally be considering training towards the CIPA IP Paralegal qualification, or be on the way to completing that qualification.

Excellent organisational and time management skills are required, together with the ability to work accurately and at pace under pressure.

The role requires the ability to work both autonomously and proactively in a team.

Candidates must have excellent written and oral communication skills, feeling comfortable in client-facing communications and in working with fee earners to ensure that work is carried out in a timely and effective way to meet client requirements.

Experience with electronic records and billing systems (particularly Inprotech, Lecorpio and Serengeti) would be an advantage.

Candidate demonstrates preparedness to work additional hours from time to time to ensure that deadlines are met.

Keltie is an exceptional IP firm with a reputation for providing excellent client service to a range of small, medium and large clients around the world. The Financial Times and Chambers and Partners rank Keltie among top ranked patent and trade mark firms in Europe and we are one of the fastest-growing IP firms in the UK, with offices in London, Cambridge, the Cotswolds and Galway.

Salary: £. Competitive Market Salary.

Employee Benefits: Flexible working (2-3 days office based), Group Pension Plan, Private Healthcare Plan, Life Assurance, Group Income Protection, 25 days holidays plus paid bank holidays, season ticket loan, ride2work scheme, discretionary study support and study leave, social events.