Paralegal (Part Time - 4 days)

As Paralegal, reporting to the VP Legal, Employment, you will provide paralegal support to the employment legal team.

Production Employment Legal, EMEA & APAC

• Providing support to VP Legal, Employment in dealing with employment law issues on Film and Television productions (from appointment to termination and everything in between) involving employees, the self-employed and individuals supplied via loan out arrangements.


• Assisting with the drafting and maintenance of international polices and workplace contracts for Film and TV production.


• Liaising with other policy and contract stakeholders as necessary including Production P&C, Production Legal team, the EMEA Employment Legal team, the Production Employment Legal team in the US and the WBD Ethics & Compliance team.


Employment Legal EMEA (non-Production)

• Providing general paralegal support to employment lawyers primarily based in the UK on a variety of matters. May be some work with lawyers in Europe.


• Help co ordinating and collating advice for multi-jurisdictional projects and policy roll outs.


• Working with Company Secretarial team to ensure appropriate paperwork/central record keeping with director/officer changes.


Your Role Accountabilities…

• Employment law research in support of ongoing matters.


• Updates/case reports to the UK employment legal team on developments in employment law.


• Working with People Relations and P&C teams on workplace investigations and other employee relations matters.


• Drafting and negotiating settlement agreements, with support from the team.


• Working with external counsel in the UK and EMEA region, including support with billing and other onboarding tasks.


• Providing day-to-day administrative assistance (including filing in a central legal directory, and chasing up contracts/outstanding matters, where appropriate)


• Assisting with such other Employment Legal projects, as required from time to time.
  
  Law degree or equivalent qualification.


• Previous paralegal experience (media paralegal experience preferable)


• Excellent interpersonal skills - ability to work effectively at all levels within the company.


• High level of accuracy and attention to detail essential.


• Professional proficiency in other European languages a bonus but not essential.


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Hybrid Working - This role is advertised as a Hybrid work model, that combines remote and in-office work, following our current company policy and to be agreed with your Line Manager. Subject to any applicable laws, WBD / your Line Manager reserves the right to change this working agreement where this is essential to business needs and upon reasonable notice to you.

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