Trainee Solicitor, Palantir

• Keen interest in all aspects of commercial law
• Analyse risk and confidently communicate across all levels of the business
• Leverage your interpersonal skills to quickly build relationships
• Translate legal advice into actionable guidance for a wide variety of stakeholders with ease
• Work to strict deadlines and have the confidence to manage expectations of senior level stakeholders
• Sustain efficiency of all operational and procedural workflows you work within
• Maintain accuracy of detail oriented tasks under time pressure, to guarantee reliability and consistency
• Think creatively and look for opportunities to innovate
• Embrace new technology and be open to new ways of working
• Leverage your interpersonal skills to quickly build relationships
• Qualifying Law Degree or alternative undergraduate degree (2:1 minimum) and GDL from a Top Tier University/Law School
• Legal Practice Course (LPC) (commendation minimum)

Desirable

• Manage service delivery and legal administrative support for customers from engagement to instruction and facilitate the co-ordination of matter progress with the International Legal Operations Team
• Triage internal and external correspondence, providing direct assistance or redirection of queries to relevant stakeholders as needed, whilst at all times exhibiting appropriate discretion and good judgement to maintain company and customer confidence
• Undertake independent legal research and help advise on a multitude of issues across the company, instructing counsel where specialist advice or assistance with contentious matters is required
• Provide task support for all levels of Ninja on the International Ninja Team, such as reviewing, drafting and/or redlining contracts and other legal documents for new and existing customers, together with all aspects of the associated supply chain
• Facilitate the preparation and submission of national and international public tenders with Project Managers
• Improve day-to-day operations and workflows related to the relevant seat by continually and proactively exploring opportunities to add value and increase efficiency
• Shadow Ninjas at customer meetings, with the opportunity to participate in and potentially lead on negotiations
• Maintain legal records and support various transactional matters, including interfacing with Senior Leadership
• Arrange and attend professional skills courses and any other required activities to ensure that the required Solicitors Regulation Authority training requirements are met
• Plan and review the development of the training contract with the Training Principal periodically to ensure that it continues to be relevant to and reflective of the needs of the Trainee, as well as the broader team and company needs
• As an In-House Trainee, you’ll take on novel, complex issues as they arise, refining ill-defined objectives and bringing multi-stepped projects to completion

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life and disability coverage
• Paid leave for new parents and emergency back-up care for all parents
• Family planning support, including fertility, adoption, and surrogacy assistance
• Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child
• Commuter benefits
• Relocation assistance
• Unlimited paid time off

Total funding: $2.6bn

Palantir have a huge mission to transform the world using data and technology. Its technology has been used to stop terrorist attacks, discover medicines and gain an edge in the financial markets. These are big and exciting problems to work on.