Legal Specialist in London, United Kingdom

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years of legal work experience in a law firm, government, or in house legal department.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in or exposure to employment legal issues in an in-house or law firm setting.

• Experience managing active litigation including discovery.

• Excellent analytical skills, with a strong ability to review and organize numerous documents in complex legal matters.

Google’s legal department is at the center of an information law revolution, and you’re at its core. As a Legal Assistant, you are a driving force behind the success of your Legal team, ready to roll up your sleeves to create and improve processes, maintain records, conduct legal research and coordinate communications across the team. As you closely support your team, you may find yourself working with multiple groups within the Legal Department, internal clients across Google, and external parties. You’re an independent thinker who isn’t afraid to ask questions, and you’re organized in a way that never overlooks the details.

20th century laws don’t always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for working with some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you’re a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you address unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.

• Manage and organize information and documentation, draft, review, and manage legal documentation, conduct legal reviews, due diligence, and investigations, advise clients on risks, and support other areas of Legal Operations.

• Work with cross-functional internal clients, stakeholders, and external parties to oversee transactional and corporate matters, managing transactional and corporate closing mechanics, post closing integrations, administrations, reorganizations, and corporate governance and compliance matters.

• Conduct fact-finding investigations and diligence to gather information, documents, and data in response to discovery, regulatory agency, and other third-parties requests and diligence matters, and process and manage legal matters involving some degree of risk and complexity for internal clients and external parties (e.g., compliance and governance, mergers and acquisitions, complaints, information requests, etc.).

• Develop and implement metrics to evaluate effectiveness of services, policies and procedures, and review/analyze data and make recommendations.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCPEEOPost.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.