Paralegal

Role purpose

Legal, contract, and research support

• Prepare, review, and administer standard legal documents and contracts using approved templates and guidance.
• Identify missing information or deviations in initial contract reviews and coordinate approvals, execution, and signatures.
• Track contract obligations, dates, renewals, expiries, and actions.
• Conduct legal and regulatory research; prepare summaries, chronologies, and materials for Legal Counsel.
• Monitor regulatory developments and support compliance requests, submissions, investigations, and formal matters.

Records and institutional support

• Maintain legal matter, contract, correspondence, advice, approval, and supporting documentation in approved systems.
• Classify, file, retain, and control access to records, protecting privileged and confidential information.
• Support templates, precedents, checklists, internal procedures, committee documentation, policies, and governance matters.
• Collect, organize, review, and track documentation for due diligence and institutional matters.

External counsel and legal operations

• Coordinate external counsel documentation, meetings, instructions, follow-ups, engagement records, invoices, and expenditure tracking.
• Maintain Legal team calendars, deadlines, contract milestones, reports, matter statistics, and management information.
• Identify workflow improvements and support legal technology, contract-management systems, automation, and approved AI-enabled tools.
• Contribute to standard operating procedures and internal controls; perform other commensurate duties as directed.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor's degree in law, Legal Studies, Business Law, or a related discipline.
• A recognized paralegal qualification or legal professional certification is desirable; admission as a qualified lawyer is not required.
• Minimum 3–5 years of relevant legal support experience in an in-house team, law firm, government entity, university, or complex organization.
• Experience supporting contracts, legal research, records, trackers, and confidential documentation.

Skills and preferred experience

• Requires strong confidentiality, legal privilege, document control, organization, communication, attention to detail, and ability to manage competing deadlines.
• Requires Microsoft Office proficiency and familiarity with document, contract, or legal matter-management systems.
• UAE in-house legal experience, regulated-sector experience, UAE legal knowledge, governance, due diligence, and external counsel coordination are preferred.
• Legal technology, workflow automation, AI-enabled legal tools, and Arabic capability are advantages.