Mannheimer Swartling is hiring a Junior Assistant

Mannheimer Swartling offers high-quality business legal advice in Sweden and globally. With over 430 specialized lawyers, we cover virtually all business legal areas across a variety of sectors and industries. Our clients range from listed companies and public authorities to long-established family businesses and bold entrepreneurs. Sustainability, as well as our core values - business focus, quality, and team spirit - are integrated parts of the firm’s operations. Mannheimer Swartling has 650 employees and offices in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, Brussels, New York, and Singapore.

We are excited that you are interested in becoming a part of our team! With us, you have the opportunity to shape your own career through training and personal development. Here you can read more about the role of Junior Assistant and what distinguishes Mannheimer Swartling as a workplace.

Working as a Junior Assistant

Your mission will be to relieve the firm’s partners and associates of various administrative tasks. These tasks may include different types of document management, structuring of materials, courier management, meeting administration, and working with complex templates in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Depending on which group and projects you work in, the role of Junior Assistant may vary and may also involve work outside of office hours at times.

Examples of some of your tasks:

• assist lawyers with information retrieval, compilation, and structuring of large amounts of legal information
• various document management including proofreading, translation, and formatting
• various printing management; assembling submissions, binding documents, physical and electronic archiving
• transcribing Swedish and English audio recordings
• accounting for expenses
• contact with authorities
• book and organize meetings and travel
• assist with certain tasks in our library
• handle various administrative issues and matters on a daily basis

Your Profile

We are looking for someone with a high school education who wants to gain insight into the legal profession for about a year. You have an interest in law, and we would like you to be aiming or curious about further legal studies at university. As a person, you are meticulous, down-to-earth, and responsible, and enjoy providing top-class service. Previous experience in a service role is therefore an advantage. You are structured and have the ability to quickly shift focus between different tasks as it is a broad area of work with often tight deadlines and a fast-paced environment. We would like you to have good proficiency in the Office suite and easily adapt to new technology. It is an advantage if you are multilingual, and a requirement for the role is that you are proficient in both Swedish and English.

A Culture We Believe You Will Thrive In

We seek employees who complement our team and share our core values – quality, business focus, and team spirit.

What distinguishes the firm is our unique business model, Pure Lockstep. A model that means we focus on common goals and help each other to become the best we can be. Collaborating and sharing knowledge and experiences is the very foundation of Pure Lockstep. This, in turn, has built an unusually strong corporate culture.

Office and Colleagues

As a Junior Assistant, you will be part of the office's administrative support team, which aims to provide efficient and professional support. You will work at our office at Järntorget in Gothenburg, where we are about 100 employees. Together with ambitious and motivated colleagues, you will work in an international environment characterized by engagement, well-being, and participation. You will become an important part of a close-knit organization where we care for each other and have fun together – both at work and during various social activities.

What Happens Now?

We encourage you to submit your application (CV, cover letter, and high school diploma) as soon as possible, as the position may be filled before the application deadline. We will get back to everyone who applies; if you have questions about the recruitment process before then, please feel free to contact Hanna Grankvist at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]). For questions about the position, please contact Lotta Pihl at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]).

The position is a fixed-term full-time employment with a planned start date according to agreement.

Mannheimer Swartling is not just a workplace – here you become part of a strong community that values development and collaboration. We look forward to your application!

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