The Newcastle Legal Delivery Centre, located in Clifford Chance's Newcastle office, is one of two such centres, with the other in Delhi. These centres work together to support global lawyer teams by effectively utilising knowledge, resources, processes, and legal technology to serve clients. The Newcastle Delivery Centre is made up of a range of practice areas, including Global Financial Markets, Corporate, Real Estate, Litigation & Dispute Resolution, and Tax, Pensions & Employment.
What we offer including our broad range of benefits and working environment
When you join Clifford Chance, you will have access to a broad range of benefits to support you across many aspects of your personal and professional life including financial, wellbeing, lifestyle, and family friendly benefits. For more information on what we offer specifically in Newcastle, please visit our What We Offer page on our career site.
About the Firm
As a global law firm our work spans jurisdictions, cultures, and languages – and so do our people.
Our culture is collaborative and inclusive — where diverse perspectives are recognised and valued. Where performing to your highest ability, unlocks equal access to opportunities to learn, thrive and grow.
We combine deep legal expertise and commercial intelligence to grow, transform, protect, and defend our clients' businesses, across every critical moment.
We operate in the sectors and regions that matter to our clients. With forward-thinking insights and innovative, tech-enabled solutions that combine deep knowledge of their sectors and markets.
You’ll build connections and work with colleagues as one global team. You’ll unlock opportunities for clients, across borders, cultures, legal and commercial disciplines.
Join us to work with colleagues as one global team – empowering each other to be exceptional and create advantage for our clients.
The Role
The role of an NDA Specialist offers you the chance to join our highly experienced, innovative, and client-centric team. You'll work within a range of offices, ensuring that knowledge, resources, processes, and technology are deployed effectively to support our clients.
At our Newcastle Delivery Centre, you’ll be part of a well‑established paralegal support team with a wide range of seniority and specialisms. As an NDA Specialist working at Senior Paralegal level, you will collaborate closely with Paralegals, Apprentice Paralegals, Senior and Supervisory Paralegals, Managing Paralegals, Operations Managers, Legal Technology Advisors and Process Architects.
You are likely to have direct contact and communication with Associates, Lawyers and Business Professionals based in other offices around the world.
The Corporate team assist with Non-Disclosure Agreement reviews. This is either on a hotline basis for a number of Private Equity clients or on a sell side situation as part of a wider deal.
Working in a team who support this work, you will be specifically required to fee earn to support all aspects of the delivery of the NDA work for other CC offices. You may also assist with other work on an as and when required basis.
Key Responsibilities
What you will do
You will undertake a multitude of tasks for a range of practice areas, as mentioned above, including but not limited to;
You may also be required to support on other non-NDA related work, including but not limited to:
How we will support you
From your first day with us, you will have varied opportunities to continuously grow and development your skills and knowledge. From formal training, informal coaching and mentoring through to skills-based and technical training and on the job learning.
You will be given the opportunity to get involved in a range on internal training which covers:
Your career experience so far
You will possess the following skills:
Essential:
Desirable:
Work Pattern & Hybrid Working
Monday – Friday 35 hours per week. Core office hours are 09:00 - 20:00
We have a hybrid working policy in place and the expectation for this role is that at least 50% of your time is spent in the office.
Equal Opportunities
At Clifford Chance, we forge an inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives are recognised and valued. It’s a culture where everyone has equal access to opportunities to thrive and succeed. We are guided by our values-based Code, which sets high standards of conduct and has a principle focused on being inclusive.
We comply with the law and regulations in every location where we operate and we are committed to delivering fair and equal access to all applicants and employees irrespective of background. This applies across all aspects of employment from recruitment and selection to development, progression, and day-to-day working life.
Our global network of affinity, faith and support groups are open to all. These communities help to create an environment where everyone at the firm can feel they belong and can reach their full potential.
Find out more about our inclusive culture here
We are a global law firm dedicated to creating advantage for our clients. Combining legal and commercial intelligence, we collaborate with our clients as one global team to grow, transform, protect and defend their business. Operating as a single, fully-integrated global partnership we provide forward-thinking insights and tech-enabled solutions in the sectors and markets that matter most to our clients. Our culture of collaboration and commitment to rigorous and ethical standards, ensures consistent, high-quality service worldwide.
