Job Opportunity in Dubai as a Professional Support Lawyer in Al Tamimi Company

Al Tamimi Company offers a job opportunity in Dubai as a professional support lawyer. The role is to provide professional practice support to the department practice and develop an infrastructure for promoting best practices and consistent quality in client work. 

You will be responsible for:

1. Liaising with the Corporate Commercial team on the development of precedents, practice notes and working practices.
2. Advises fee earners and keeps both the team and clients up to date with new law and regulatory developments.
3. New Points of Law - Ensuring fee-earners are kept up-to-date on developments in the law – the latest cases, legislation and statutory instruments – often through presentation to regular departmental meetings and/or circulation of written materials.
4. Supervising paralegals and associates in maintaining best practices for deal documentation, precedents and know-how resources, including consistent application of law in precedents and practice.
5. Preparing and circulating know-how and translating it into forms, precedents, practice notes and manuals, and assisting in technical legal training and practice development.
6. Contribute to and manage various parts of the firm’s data management systems, intranet, company website and other information provision services.
7. IT/Internet/On-line products - Managing or contributing to parts of the firm’s intranet, information databases and knowledge management systems.
8. Liaise with Business Development and Marketing team and contribute as required to the production of articles, briefings, newsletters or other materials for circulation to clients or to be published in Law update and other selected journals.
9. Playing a part in the marketing of the department and producing material for, and perhaps presenting, seminars both internally and externally.
10. Working with the Partners, counsel and associates to identify the best practices, know-how and learning requirements of the practice and to implement the agreed offering.
11. Assistance with prioritization and allocation of know how projects.

You must have:

• Minimum of 5 years PQE coupled with 2 years’ experience as a professional support lawyer within an international law firm
• Qualified lawyer.
• Current or previous experience in a client-facing role, preferably with a background in corporate transactions and advisory.

About Al Tamimi Company:

Al Tamimi & Company has unrivalled experience, having operated in the region for over 30 years. The lawyers combine international experience and qualifications with expert regional knowledge and understanding. The company is a full-service firm, specializing in advising and supporting major international corporations, banks and financial institutions, government organisations and local, regional and international companies. Its main areas of expertise include arbitration & litigation, banking & finance, corporate & commercial, intellectual property, real estate, construction & infrastructure, and technology, media & telecommunications.

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