Jobs at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Provide paralegal support on a high-profile technology-related disputes matter, managing disclosure logistics, preparing electronic bundles and hearing materials, taking accurate call notes, creating and maintaining documents and correspondence, organising matter files on Google Documents, liaising with teams and stakeholders, and supporting billing and other paralegal tasks.

Mid-level insurance litigation associate handling coverage disputes, contentious regulatory matters and professional negligence claims. Manage and deliver discrete legal work, draft and negotiate documents, support senior lawyers, delegate and mentor juniors, manage billing, and build client relationships while contributing to business development and firm initiatives.

Perform AML/CDD checks, sanctions and PEP screening, client risk assessments, beneficial ownership research, advise stakeholders on routine financial crime queries, and coordinate CDD with matter teams and New Business Intake.

Provide AML/CTF and sanctions advice across the firm; develop and maintain sanctions compliance programme; support regulatory enquiries, audits and complex clearances; deliver training; conduct client research and CDD; liaise with New Business Intake teams and build sanctions knowledge across the risk team.

Lead and manage contentious competition litigation matters including defending damages claims in the High Court and CAT, coordinate multi‑jurisdictional responses, supervise junior lawyers, develop client relationships, manage billing and contribute to firm initiatives and training.

Manage global conflict checks and advise partners on conflicts, information barriers, reputational/sanctions/financial crime risks, and matter risk assessments. Liaise with Financial Crime and international teams, contribute to team development, and help optimise conflicts technology and processes.

Prepare and reconcile US federal and state tax records for non-US partners and entities, produce partnership and partner tax returns (K-1s), calculate partner tax liabilities and prepayments, manage ITINs and administrative US tax processes, coordinate global partner tax data with local teams, assist with transfer pricing and withholding tax, and support international tax managers on ad-hoc projects.

Provide global data privacy legal support across DPIAs, supplier and contract risk management, AI tool onboarding, policy development, incident response, data subject requests, audits, and privacy training, reporting to the Senior Data Privacy Manager.

Design, implement and mature observability and performance engineering practices across cloud, infrastructure, and applications. Instrument services for metrics, logs, and traces, optimise performance, automate incident detection/remediation, define SLIs/SLOs, and integrate monitoring with incident management and reporting to improve reliability and reduce MTTD/MTTR.

Provide support on competition disputes and contentious matters, particularly private enforcement in High Court and Competition Appeal Tribunal. Assist in defending damages actions, manage multi-jurisdictional claims, liaise with clients, supervise juniors, contribute to business development, and ensure compliance with firm risk and billing processes.

Design and deliver client-facing technical architectures for legal workflows, integrating DMS, workflow, AI/LLM platforms and enterprise systems. Produce architecture documentation, ensure security and governance, advise on commercial implications, run proofs of concept, and collaborate with lawyers and delivery teams to deploy chargeable, reliable solutions for transaction and corporate legal matters.

Lead and support private equity transactions (MBOs, LBOs, public-to-privates, restructurings), manage transaction delivery and quality, supervise junior lawyers, contribute to business development, pitch work, and firm initiatives while ensuring compliance with risk and billing processes.

Provide AML/CTF and sanctions advisory to practice groups, escalate and resolve complex sanctions and unusual activity matters, develop and implement financial crime policies and controls, perform risk assessments and remediation, support regulatory enquiries, audits and stakeholder consultations, and maintain audit‑ready records.