Paralegal (International Arbitration)

Location: London, United Kingdom; onsite work in the London office

Company

King & Spalding is a global law firm providing legal services through international practices and multidisciplinary teams.

What you will do

• Support lawyers and case teams on international arbitration, cross-border litigation, enforcement, and related disputes matters.
• Prepare, draft, format, proofread, cite-check, and finalise filings, written submissions, memorials, witness statements, expert reports, and hearing materials.
• Organise pleadings, evidence, exhibits, authorities, correspondence, databases, electronic data, and document-management systems.
• Prepare chronologies, factual summaries, exhibit lists, hearing indexes, witness materials, and other case-management tools.
• Coordinate translation, e-discovery, document-management, printing, binding, and hearing-support vendors, as well as experts, witnesses, local counsel, and other case participants.
• Support pre-hearing, hearing, and post-hearing activities, including hearing bundles, logistics, exhibit control, transcripts, and final hearing records.

Requirements

• Approximately five or more years of litigation, arbitration, or international disputes experience in a mid-to-large-size law firm or comparable professional environment.
• Substantive familiarity with international arbitration processes, including institutional and ad hoc rules such as SIAC, ICC, ICSID, PCA, UNCITRAL, LCIA, and ICDR.
• Bachelor’s degree and strong proofreading, cite-checking, legal research, organisational, analytical, and communication skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, plus document-management, collaboration, review, and AI-assisted platforms such as Teams, Relativity, Microsoft Copilot, or Harvey.
• Fluent English is required.
• Onsite hearings, overtime, evenings, weekends, and travel may be required.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a global practice spanning more than 2,500 lawyers and business professionals.
• Annual merit-based bonus opportunity.
• Private medical insurance with Bupa, life assurance, critical illness insurance, and income protection insurance.
• 7% firm pension contribution, gym membership or wellness allowance contribution, and Employee Assistance Programme.
• Season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme, and 25 days of annual holiday.