Legal Specialist
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of legal work experience in a law firm, government, or in house legal department
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with using technology to improve work efficiency.
- Ability to prioritize and manage numerous projects concurrently.
- Excellent organizational, critical thinking, record keeping, and time management skills with attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple projects under time constraints.
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
About the job
As a Legal Specialist, you drive the success of your Legal team, ready to create and improve processes, maintain records, assist in litigation management, conduct legal research and coordinate communications across the team. You may find yourself working with multiple groups within the Legal Department, internal clients across Google, and external parties.
In this role, you will provide paralegal support to the Employment Legal team in EMEA (Europe Middle East and Africa) to strive for consistency and compliance with employment law, regulations, and practice across Google’s offices. You will not only help the team do its work but you will also help the team figure out how to do its work better.
Responsibilities
- Deliver wide-ranging, accurate advisory and HR legal project work on a timely basis (e.g., management of responses to labour courts and other labour entities, disclosure and due diligence exercises, answer policy questions).
- Work on litigation matters, including managing document gathering and production, interface with the Discovery team to help manage litigation when required, coordinate with internal and external counsel, and provide recommendations where necessary.
- Conduct research and draft documents of varying complexity (e.g., employment contracts, transfer letters, and severance agreements).
- Become a power user of legal systems. Understand Employment Legal’s specific systems needs in the region and recommend changes.
- Identify and suggest system or process enhancements to manage workflow more effectively. Work with stakeholders to implement.
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