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International Bar Association Don't show me jobs from International Bar Association

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From £30,000 to £35,000 per year

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London Don't show me jobs in this location

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Permanent

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Full time

Job Title: Senior Staff Lawyer Reports to: Head of Legal Projects Team Overall Purpose: To lead the implementation of IBA projects for the Middle East region. To create, promote, develop, manage and execute legal projects of interest and ramification to the international legal community and the general public, and to support and contribute to IBA committee projects to enable their success. The International Bar Association (IBA) is a global federation of judges, lawyers, Law Societies and Bar Associations which works to influence the development of international law reform and shape the future of the legal profession. Its 197 member organisations and over 35,000 individual members cover all continents. The International Bar Association's Legal Projects Team works to create strategies and initiatives aimed at addressing some of the most pressing concerns faced by the global legal profession. Key Accountabilities: Middle East Representing the IBA for the Middle East, manage the IBA's programmes, initiatives and membership activity for the Middle East Region building awareness of the IBA in the region. Assist with holding local and regional events that will highlight the IBA's presence in the region; making contact with lawyers, legal organisations and government bodies. Develop, organise and implement local and regional legal programmes/events together with Middle Eastern lawyers and members of the IBA from other jurisdictions to discuss timely and cutting edge issues, including high profile events or training programmes with government organisations, such as the Ministry of Justice - with the objective of developing individual and group membership in the UAE and across the Middle East. Keep abreast of local and regional developments by reading relevant journals etc and holding discussions with local members and the wider legal profession with a view to identifying topical conferences and other events. Develop a deep understanding of what services members in the region will most value, and seeking ways to implement them. Establish strong contacts and working relationships with law firms, legal organisations, bar associations and law societies in the region. Managing and leading relationships with the Arab Regional Forum (ARF) and local members and providing administrative support for ARF meetings. Working closely with the Sponsorship team, identify potential sponsorships leads and media contacts. Encourage and develop the Arab voice within the IBA, ensuring, for example, that relevant regional issues are brought to the notice of the IBA Committees, and that articles from and about the region are appearing regularly in IBA publications. Other Legal Projects Propose, promote, develop, manage and execute legal projects as described above, in particular projects relating to economic and business law and other legal and public policy areas from across the Association; Support projects managed by other lawyers from the Legal Projects Team; Encourage and coordinate IBA committee member involvement in the projects led or promoted by the Legal Projects Team; Draft legal reports and recommendations on a variety of legal topics, particularly in the areas listed above; Identify and write items of interest for IBA publications and other professional publications; Attend and/or present at conferences, seminars, workshops, trainings, roundtables and lectures in various international locations and provide written reports; Develop and sustain relationships with other international and professional organisations, governments, academic institutions, and other entities as required for project development; Provide research for IBA committee projects as needed; Job Requirements Education and Training Essential: Law degree, legal qualification (but not necessarily in the UK). Desirable: Master of Laws, Master of Public Policy or equivalent. Work Experience Essential: Minimum one year experience working in a legal environment. Experience dealing with senior legal professionals and management of support staff. Experience working in economic and business matters in a legal capacity. Desirable: Preferably 2-3 years' experience as a practitioner (in private legal practice as a corporate lawyer of economic and business law) would be an advantage) or in legal policy in the public sector or in an international organisation. Experience with the work of bar associations Experience with legal drafting would be an advantage. Experience working with individuals from a variety of cultures would be an advantage. Technical/Professional Skills and Knowledge Essential: Strong knowledge of commercial legal issues. Strong interest in international legal work in many different fields. Impeccable verbal and written communication skills in English. Competence in the MS Office suite of programmes. Competent in use of legal databases and other on-line research tools. Confident presenter. Desirable: Fluent in Arabic and English Legal drafting skills would be an advantage. Experience with web-based content management tools would be an advantage. Experience with writing articles or marketing material would be an advantage. If you would like to apply for this position please apply online with your CV and a covering letter addressing the job requirements. senior staff lawyer solicitor attorney middle east iba economic business law public sector

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Gatehouse Bank Don't show me jobs from Gatehouse Bank

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From £45,000 to £45,000 per year

Location

London Don't show me jobs in this location

Job term

Permanent

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Full time

Executive Assistant to CEO Location: London Salary: Up to 45k depending on experience + comprehensive benefits Gatehouse is a highly prestigious Islamic investment bank based in the City of London. They seek a professional and highly skilled Executive Assistant to support the CEO and gain a working knowledge of his duties. The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years' experience of supporting a senior executive position in a financial services environment and will provide one-to-one administrative support to the CEO and Chairman Office, whilst developing an extensive knowledge of the organisation and developing relations with key external personnel at stakeholder and customer level. Main Duties/Key Responsibilities: To assist the CEO in the discharge of his duties, including: Administration and Diary Management (including coordination of diary and cover between the CEO, CFO and Chairman Office); * Carrying out initial filter of the CEO inbox and other message boxes, removing any items that do not require the CEO's direct and immediate intervention; * Work closely with the CEO to ensure direct reports produce relevant reports for the CEO outlining progress on all projects / deals; * Manage / maintain the appraisal process for the CEO's direct reports, ensuring regular personal development updates are scheduled and maintained; * Accurate and timely minute taking for meetings chaired by the CEO including tracking of and follow-up on actions; * Travel arrangements, specifically arranging client meetings, organising itineraries and accommodation, expenses management and call reporting; * Preparing and amending PowerPoint presentations as and when required and producing reports by collecting information, carrying out specific projects and research as and when requested; * Implementing and maintaining an efficient filing system for the CEO, including preservation of confidential information; * Maintaining clear desk policy for the CEO. Client Relationship Management (including liaison with clients in the CEO's absence); * Special responsibility for identifying and maintaining contact with MD/CEO/GM Office for key target accounts; * Maintaining excellent relationships with clients to ensure positive working interactions at all times; * Maintaining excellent relationships with Stakeholders in order to ensure positive working interactions at all times. Corporate Communications (including marketing, PR, conferences and thought leadership programmes); * Coordinate * CEO involvement (including speech writing and social media representation e.g. LinkedIn); * Thought leadership programmes, including seminars and articles; * Helping with the organisation of CEO participation in Company events; * Assisting with / arranging translation, including Arabic; * Working with PR and marketing functions as required. * Other tasks as required. Assisting Non-Executive Board Members as required; * Travel arrangements, specifically arranging client meetings, organising itineraries and accommodation, expenses management; * Understanding Board needs and priorities and ensure they are kept informed on relevant matters relating to CEO activities; * Organising the annual away day for the Board. Required Knowledge & Skills: * High level stakeholder management experience (senior executives) for joint marketing / thought leadership events management; * Familiar with CRM and client database management; * Knowledge / experience of marketing / branding / PR activities including events management; * Intermediate WORD, EXCEL and PowerPoint skills; * Project Planning software Microsoft Project; * Business Writing and Speech writing experience; * Knowledge of the Middle East culture; * Knowledge of Board and Shareholder level operations; * Knowledge of working in a regulated environment. Beneficial Knowledge & Skills: * Experience with media handling and enquiries; * Read / write Arabic skills; * Advanced WORD, EXCEL and PowerPoint skills; * Conversational Arabic; * Knowledge of South East Asian culture; * Business via social media skills; * C level operations in regulated environment. Personal Skills: * Superb interpersonal skills, with the ability to deal with staff at all levels; * Personable demeanour; * Strong work ethic; * Clear attention to detail. ea pa executive assistant personal assistant arabic

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Dechert Don't show me jobs from Dechert

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From £30,000 per year

Location

London Don't show me jobs in this location

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

REPORTS TO: Manager of Associate Development, Europe & Asia GENERAL SUMMARY: To support the Manager of Associate Development in the organisation and delivery of associate development initiatives and training programmes for all fee-earners in Europe and Asia. ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: * Provides administrative assistance to the Manager of Associate Development * Undertakes ad hoc research tasks as directed. * Prepares the monthly Associate Developments newsletter. * Works closely with the Manager of Associate Development to plan and schedule both Critical Skills training Breakfast Briefings. * Co-ordinates the internal training programme on the basis of information provided by Manager of Associate Development and Practice Group Administrators (finds suitable dates, arranges rooms, catering and equipment, updates training schedule, and ensures materials are copied). * Maintains an office wide training schedule and liaises with fee-earners on a weekly and monthly basis by email to inform and remind them of training events and records attendees. * Arranges external training for staff throughout the firm when requested and obtains authorisation from the Manager of Associate Development. Sends a meeting request and a reminder two days before the event. Emails after the event to check attendance and to obtain feedback on quality of the course. Uses this information to record Continuous Professional Development (CPD), and to compile the reports on external training once a month. * Uses Micron (and / or Excel) to prepare monthly training reports for the Manager of Associate Development. Information to be captured includes: presenters, practice groups, training event, attendees, no-shows, and costs. * Receives and checks invoices and arranges payment for external training courses, allocating payments to the correct departmental budget. Monitors training expenses and reports on training cost to the Manager of Associate Development on a monthly basis. * Ensures all CPD for European and Asian fee-earners is recorded in Micron and Produces information for the Manager of Associate Development regarding CPD, especially total CPD hours across the office, and details of CPD records of individual solicitors. Sends CPD reminders to all fee earners in April, July and October. * Where U.S qualified attorneys deliver or participate in training in Europe and Asia ensure it is recorded in London and that appropriate certificates are generated and sent to the U.S for record keeping purposes. * Keeps a library using FileSite of all course materials. * Sends a reminder to all attendees before an internal training session. Copies in the speaker, if an internal event. Updates training database with attendance. * Arranges Professional Skills Course (PSC) compulsory modules and PSC elective modules based on information provided by the Manager of Associate Development or the Manager of Graduate Recruitment. Keeps a record of the Trainees' PSC training throughout their two year training contract. Liaises with the Manager of Graduate Recruitment to ensure that all trainees complete PSC in good time before the completion of the training contract. * Liaises with the Manager of Graduate Recruitment, Manager of Associate Development, Practice Group Administrators and fee-earner presenters to arrange Trainee seat rotation training every four months. Finds suitable dates, arranges rooms, catering and equipment, updates training schedule. * Dechert belongs to four College of Law Training consortiums, CTC, CPTC, SLTC and BFTC. Attends an annual meeting for each consortium. Keeps a list of all the training consortium courses and records attendees. Proactively identifies upcoming courses which are appropriate for associates to attend, and invites them to consider (depending on budgetary constraints). Records all arrangements in Micron. * Dechert belongs to the Inn Group Consortium (a group of local firms who share technical, practice group training). Attends quarterly Inn Group meetings. Dechert's contribution is to organise the Corporate Training programme for the group. Emails the other firms and Corporate & Securities partners in the Firm to identify possible topics. Contacts Chambers and other organisations we use to see if they can provide speakers for these topics or if they have any other talks available. Sets dates, books rooms and adds details of the programme to the Inn Group Consortium website. Keeps delegate lists up to date with additions and cancellations. Sends reminders to all firms in the Inn Group, one month prior, two weeks before and the day before the talk. Checks tutors availability and check for any equipment requirements. Organises materials and catering. Organises a check-in desk in the main building lobby. After the session, organises payment of invoice. Emails the speaker for permission for the materials to be circulated to other members. Sends the materials, attendance register and feedback forms to Inn Group members. For other programmes, make sure attendees are booked via the Inn Group website and keep the administrator up to date with any cancellations. Also keeps record of bookings, attendance and no shows not only for CPD but for the monthly training report. * Provides administrative support to enable lawyers in the U.S and Europe & Asia to access training in London, where appropriate, by telephone, VC and/or DVD. * Provides administrative support for training retreats for lawyers across Europe & Asia * Maintains CPD records. Collects CPD information for new joiners. SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS: * Graduate level education. * Learning and development experience in a law firm. * Sound keyboard skills and knowledge of Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel (Micron and Filesite desirable). * Highly developed organizational skills. * Capable of working within deadlines. * Able to prioritise projects and be a self-starter. * Superb oral and written communication skills. * Able to function in a collaborative organization and be a team player. associate development coordinator

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Specialist and Activity Don't show me jobs from Specialist and Activity

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£0 to £0 per year

Location

London Don't show me jobs in this location

Job term

Contract

Job hours

Full time

Overview Sportsworld are a specialist Sports Hospitality agency (and part of the TUI Sports division). Working globally on major sporting events, we deliver hospitality packages and programmes for major Corporates and Sponsors, as well as providing retail packages (Tours). London 2012 will be our 15th consecutive Olympic Games. Sportsworld have been appointed by 8 Olympic Sponsors (including BT, BMW, Samsung and Deloitte), 12 NOC's (National Organising Committees) and a host of other Olympic family clients to deliver their London 2012 hospitality programmes. ROLE Finance Assistant - Hospitality Programme We are currently recruiting for a Finance Assistant to work closely with the Account Director of one of our sponsor hospitality programmes to maintain the budget and provide accurate accounting information to the Finance team. Contract Period: 2nd July 2012 - end of August 2012 tbc. (Please note you would need to be available to work 7 days a week from 20th July -13th August over the Games period.) KEY ROLE REQUIREMENTS * Provide related support to the account management team and the broader Sportsworld London 2012 project team to facilitate the development and delivery of the client's agreed London 2012 hospitality programme * Administration of payments with suppliers as agreed with the Account Director and Operations Managers * Maintain filing systems in accordance with information management guidelines * Process staff expenses and other related expenses (as required) * Provide overall financial administrative support as required to the Account Director and Operations Managers The Individual * Confident communicator - verbal & written * Full literacy with all Microsoft Office suite of programmes/applications, particularly Excel * Organised, numerate and attentive to detail * Enthusiastic and motivated team member * Previous experience working in a high-energy, multi-level, project or finance-based environment with emphasis on timelines and delivery * Ability to work very quickly in a fast-paced and high pressure environment with tight timelines * Ability to work closely with others at all levels both in a highly professional and customer service oriented manner Excellent administrative, internet, and computer skills Job Division: Specialist & Activity Location: London finance assistant london 2012 hospitality programme budget account management filing systems staff expenses financial administrative

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Practical Law Company Don't show me jobs from Practical Law Company

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Up to £24,000 per year

Location

London Don't show me jobs in this location

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Contract

Job hours

Full time

Paralegal - Special Projects (fixed term 6 months) 24,000 per annum Practical Law Company (PLC) is the leading provider of legal know-how, transactional analysis and market intelligence for lawyers. We work closely with law firms and in-house law departments to provide innovative and practical solutions in know-how, technology and practice development. We have offices in London and New York. We are looking for a Paralegal to join the Special Projects team. You will be required to identify the effects of new legislation on existing legislation and to carry through those effects onto the published government legislation database. Other duties include: * Close analysis of new legislative text, identifying effects on existing legislation and extracting potentially complex information, such as that relating to commencement and geographical extent; * Carrying out research in preparation for updating legislation on the database with the effects of new legislation, planning your approach in detail, identifying problems and finding workable solutions; * Updating legislation on the database using a bespoke XML authoring tool, applying amendments and other effects and writing appropriate annotations to a standard of accuracy fit for publication on the website. The successful candidate will have: * Proficient user of Microsoft Office applications. * A working knowledge of legal research databases. * Good writing skills. * Accurate proofing skills. * Degree educated, ideally no less than 2:1 and have completed the LPC or equivalent. * The ability to learn quickly and to assimilate complex information. * Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. * Positive attitude and "can do" approach. * Team player * Highly self-motivated and well organised. * Good time management skills. * Willingness to take instructions from a number of individuals and prioritise accordingly. * Excellent attention to detail. * Ability to work well under pressure to meet tight deadlines. * Ability to review and assimilate information from a number of different sources. To apply for this role, please click the Apply Online button below and send in your CV and a covering letter. paralegal special projects legislation transactional analysis database xml authoring market intelligence

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The Business Advantage Group Ltd. Don't show me jobs from The Business Advantage Group Ltd.

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£0 to £0 per year

Location

Orpington Don't show me jobs in this location

Job term

Contract

Job hours

Full time

IT Intern/Placement The Business Advantage Group Limited is offering an Internship/Placement in IT, for a period of up to six months, and to start as soon as possible. The working hours will be 09.00 - 17.00 Monday to Friday. This role does not command a salary, but we are able to offer a monthly sum towards living expenses and travel costs. The role will include, but not exclusively, the following tasks: * De-dupe data * Normalise data * Analyse data * Make queries on databases * Set up MR databases, typically with ACCESS or SQL * Set up html emails and loading data into email broadcast systems. * Set up web surveys * Design data analysis models in Excel * Provide day to day IT support in a Windows environment We are a small, international Market Research agency specialising in the IT and Telecoms business sectors, based in Petts Wood, South East London (between Bromley South and Orpington BR stations), and our offices are literally just outside the station. To apply for the IT Internship opportunity please click on Apply Online it internship placement intern information technology graduate mr databases sql access web survey support windows design data analyse normalise excel office de dupe dat

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Discovery Communications Europe Ltd Don't show me jobs from Discovery Communications Europe Ltd

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£0 to £0 per year

Location

London Don't show me jobs in this location

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Position Description Position Title: Manager; Business and Legal Affairs Division: DEI Location: London Department: Business and Legal Affairs Reports to: Director, Business and Legal Affairs Core responsibilities * Supporting the Discovery Enterprises International ("DEI") team * Working with the Legal Director for the DEI team in London; DEI is an exciting, diverse and busy team primarily devoted to maximising revenue from Discovery programmes and trade marks on a global basis * Providing advice on all legal issues for DEI, working with Discovery and third party commercial units and legal counterparts around the world * International Licensing * Drafting and negotiating licensing contracts where Discovery licences its rights in trade marks, brands, logos and programmes to third parties including: * Merchandise manufacturers and product and service promotion companies * Travel, adventure and other service providing companies * Agents who represent DEI globally * DVD and digital media distributors * Print media publishers and distributors * Residential, office and resorts/entertainment facility developers * Advising on trade mark issues including filings, registrations and oppositions * Programme and Format Sales, Production and Distribution * Drafting and negotiating programme sales, format licenses and programme investment agreements with parties including: * Third party broadcasters on a worldwide basis * Airlines, cruise ship and educational operators etc * Discovery networks and third party TV production companies * Digital Media * Assisting with IT projects, service agreements and content licensing * Drafting website terms and conditions and competition rules and policies * Other Work * Dealing with regulatory work and contentious matters such as litigation, issuing default and termination letters in order to police Discovery's rights and interests * Corporate transaction work including shareholder agreements, joint ventures and business sales * Music licensing and publishing of Discovery's music catalogue * Consultancy agreements, NDAs and other operational work to support DEI * Reviewing legal precedents and processes to improve DEI's legal operations Requirements * Good legal and media industry knowledge * Enthusiastic, flexible, commercial, practical problem-solving approach * Good negotiation and drafting skills and attention to detail * Excellent time-management and communication skills * Enjoy a fast-paced commercial environment * Confident and ability to interact with colleagues and clients from different cultures and backgrounds * Level-headed and calm individual * High competency required for word processing, formatting and email use * Qualified solicitor in England, approximately NQ-2 years PQE with an interest in, and experience of, the media industry * Fluent in English commercial law international licensing negotiation intellectual property digital media solicitor