Paralegal / Legal Secretary – View our Vacancies

The Department

Private client work is at the heart of Mishcon de Reya. We specialise in understanding the complex dynamics of international families, family businesses, and family offices. With expertise in wealth structuring, tax, succession planning, and private wealth disputes, we help clients achieve long-term goals and prepare for unforeseen challenges. Our diverse clientele includes numerous Asian families, their family offices, and supporting institutions like private banks and trust companies.

Main Responsibilities/Duties

• Based in our Hong Kong office
• Prepare, proofread, and update legal documents, using initiative to flag queries
• Provide efficient administrative and secretarial support to ensure department functionality
• Manage client onboarding administration, including file opening/closing, engagement letters, conflict checks, and AML/Compliance issues
• Prepare monthly bills and ensure follow up as needed
• Manage knowledge by creating and maintaining precedents
• Maintain client contact details
• Manage diaries, including scheduling meetings and booking travel arrangements

Skills/Attributes

• Essential: Previous paralegal or legal secretary experience in a legal services environment
• Proficiency in both Mandarin and Cantonese is required.
• Dynamic and driven, with the ability to work independently with initiative, discretion, and confidentiality
• Resilient and calm under pressure
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong organisational and planning skills
• Ability to manage and prioritise workload effectively
• Capable of working independently and as part of a team
• Personable and confident, able to build relationships with fee-earners at all levels and clients

Please note that this job profile is not an exhaustive list of duties but merely an outline of the key components of the role. You may be required by your line manager to take on additional responsibilities when requested

About The Mishcon de Reya Group

TheMishcon de ReyaGroup is an independent, international professional services business with law at its heart, employing over 1400 people with over 650 lawyers. It includes the law firm Mishcon de Reya LLP and a collection of leading consultancy businesses that complement the firm’s legal services.

Mishcon de Reya LLP is based in London, Oxford, Cambridge, Singapore and Hong Kong (through its association withKaras So LLP). The firm services an international community of clients and provides advice in situations where the constraints of geography often do not apply. Its work is cross-border, multi-jurisdictional and complex, spanning six core practice areas:Corporate;Dispute Resolution;Employment;Innovation;Private; andReal Estate.

TheMishcon de Reya Groupincludes consultancy businessesMDR Discover,MDR Mayfair(in London, Singapore and Dubai),MDR ONE, andMDRi(in Hong Kong). The Group also includesMDR Lab, which invests in the most promising early stage legaltech companies as well as the Mishcon Academy, its in-house place of learning and platform for thought leadership.

In 2024, the Group announced its first strategic acquisition in the alternative legal services market, flexible legal resourcing business Flex Legal. It also acquired a majority stake in Somos, a global group actions management business.

We strive to create a fully diverse and inclusive workplace where all our people are empowered to fulfil their potential. We are proud of our agile working culture and are always happy to talk flexible working.

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