Paralegal : Commercial and Affiliates (Durban North)

Job title : Paralegal : Commercial and Affiliates (Durban North)

Job Location : KwaZulu-Natal, Durban

Deadline : October 24, 2025

Overview

JOB PURPOSE

To take responsibility for and ensure efficient and effective secretarial, administrative and paralegal support to the allocated lawyers in the legal team ("Legal Team") for maximum output in the delivery of quality business aligned legal services by the Legal Team, including facilitating and acting as an intermediary between the Legal Team and internal / external stakeholders including law firms. To undertake substantive legal work including preparation of first drafts and first legal review of standard agreements for the Legal Counsel, documenting and taking responsibility for workflow of legal matters generally through the electronic Legal practice management system ("FMS"). To take responsibility for and manage allocated matters from inception to resolution under supervision from the Legal Counsel. Preparing and managing efficient and accurate reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• Specialised Aspen and Business Unit ("BU") aligned general legal work in the Legal Team under guidance of the responsible Aspen Lawyer.
• Efficient and accurate paralegal expertise including drafting, first comments, file management, project and matter co-ordination, management of deliverables and reporting.
• Efficient and accurate Legal practice management, electronic file creation and management, electronic document retention, contract management via the electronic Aspen Contract Library (ACL), electronic reporting and certain general administration including processing invoices.
• Meaningfully contribute and deliver ancillary legal work in Group Legal cross – swim lane projects, as allocated by the Group Executive : Legal.
• Group Legal BU Allocated Responsibility, including : template creation, improvement and management; from time-to-time BU administration allocated by the Group Executive : Legal.
• Meet (or exceed) and manage Group Legal BU KPI.
• Adopt and comply with the ways of working within the Aspen Group Legal BU, including Aspen Values and application of personal Insights Profile to enhance interpersonal effectiveness.

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