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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 with using technology to improve work efficiency.

• Ability to prioritize and manage numerous projects concurrently.

• Excellent organizational, critical thinking, record keeping, and time management skills with attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple projects under time constraints.

• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

As a Legal Specialist, you drive the success of your Legal team, ready to create and improve processes, maintain records, assist in litigation management, conduct legal research and coordinate communications across the team. You may find yourself working with multiple groups within the Legal Department, internal clients across Google, and external parties.

In this role, you will provide paralegal support to the Employment Legal team in EMEA (Europe Middle East and Africa) to strive for consistency and compliance with employment law, regulations, and practice across Google’s offices. You will not only help the team do its work but you will also help the team figure out how to do its work better.

• Deliver wide-ranging, accurate advisory and HR legal project work on a timely basis (e.g., management of responses to labour courts and other labour entities, disclosure and due diligence exercises, answer policy questions).

• Work on litigation matters, including managing document gathering and production, interface with the Discovery team to help manage litigation when required, coordinate with internal and external counsel, and provide recommendations where necessary.

• Conduct research and draft documents of varying complexity (e.g., employment contracts, transfer letters, and severance agreements).

• Become a power user of legal systems. Understand Employment Legal’s specific systems needs in the region and recommend changes.

• Identify and suggest system or process enhancements to manage workflow more effectively. Work with stakeholders to implement.

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.