Business teams

The Italian Business Development and Marketing department is committed to ensuring that our business grows, and the highest possible level of client care is delivered.

We look for talented team players with the appropriate academic qualifications, professional experience and communication skills to contribute to our strategic direction. You'll need to have a commercial approach, international outlook, be able to think laterally, be pragmatic, well organised and calm under pressure. In return, we'll offer you excellent career development opportunities and comprehensive training.

• Reception

• Meeting room assistance and management

• Building management

• Building assessments

• Switchboard

• External and Internal mail management

• Courier management

• Document printing and scanning services

• Suppliers management

As with all support functions the Finance department is a key component in driving the business forward. Not surprisingly, there are many different areas of focus within the department including financial analysis and budget control, accounting, client administration and credit control.

Recruitment:

• Presentation of A&O at Universities and Job Fairs

• LLMs students interviews

• Internship

• CVs screening

• Interview process

Career development & Compensation

• Performance appraisal

• Salary reviews and bonus scheme

• Coordination of secretarial pools

• Support Staff training

• Secondment to clients, ISP, expatriates

Payroll

• Offer letter, welcome, buddy program

• Data base updating, reporting and budgeting

• Payslip process

• Safety regulation of employees

• Fee earner time recording monitoring

• End user support

• Microsoft and Omnia Training

• WAN management and monitoring

• Printers and computers assistance

• Suppliers management

• Voice Communications support both technical and suppliers management

• ICT suppliers coordination

• ICT environment monitoring

• Application test and support

• WiFi network management and support

• Clients IT assistance

• Client publications and periodical emails of update concerning the most significant legal developments;

• Research and documentation services;

• Websites and online services relating to specific issues;

• Seminars & workshops, which can also be tailored to the clients' specific needs;

• Global Network Training (legal training and Business Skills Programs)

• Language Training

• Legal document drafting, mark up and formatting;

• Calendar organisation, filling in of expense notes, screening calls as appropriate;

• Filing of both emails, soft and hard copies documents;

• Updating client contacts lists in view of marketing events, alerts, bulletin and invitations;

• Updating our internal database system of all existing client matters;

• Being a point of reference for the other support functions (i.e.: marketing, know-how, hr, finance) for and on behalf of the fee earners;

• Scheduling and organising meetings, conference calls and videoconferences

• Occasional translation

The Italian Library, Inter Alia, offers the following wide range of enquiry and research services, conducted through access to a variety of print materials, databases and online tools:

• Finding legislation and case law;
• Finding articles and commentary on legal topics; and
• distributing a weekly Newsletter which includes both the list of indexes of current journal subscriptions and the list of books and publications recently purchased by the Italian offices.