Internship Opportunity @ Aktis Strategy, London: Apply by August 24
Aktis Strategy is hiring legal interns.
The Legal Team provides a range of legal services for Aktis, including contract drafting, review and negotiation, advice on a wide variety of matters such as duty of care, data protection and anti-bribery law, internal legal training, and support on overseas office set up in the Middle East and North Africa.
The role:
Aktis is offering a part-time internship within the Legal Team for a suitably-qualified and dynamic candidate. Although the role is mainly administrative, paralegal work such as contract drafting, reviewing and GDPR compliance may be offered to the right candidate.
Main Responsibilities:
To support the general running of the Legal Team:
- Managing the contract database
- Contract filing
- Restructuring/updating legal folders and documents
- Legal research
- Responding to emails
- Arranging meetings, Skype calls
- Producing training materials
To support Aktis in our overseas projects/offices:
- Collating documents
- Arranging for notarisation and legalisation of documents
- Running a task tracker
- Liaising with local offices and external advisors
Requirements:
- Completed or be in the process of completing an undergraduate degree, ideally in law or be a GDL/LPC student or graduate.
- A proven practical working knowledge of Microsoft Windows-based computer systems and software applications (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook)
- Some previous office experience, ideally in a law firm or in-house legal team.
- An ability to take the initiative, work independently and be versatile as workload and work requests will vary day to day.
- A good command of written and spoken English.
- Excellent communication skills and an effective team-player, willing to contribute their own ideas.
- A demonstrable and active interest in law.
Desirable
- An interest in international development, international politics and conflict affected and fragile state problems.
- Additional languages such as Arabic.
Please submit your CV and Cover Letter
Location:
London
Salary Details:
Paid Internship
Deadline:
Aug 24, 2018
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Contact:
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