Description
Location: Łódź
We are looking for a proactive, well organized Legal Assistant to join our Baker McKenzie office in Łódź. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong attention to detail, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work effectively in a dynamic professional environment.
Key responsibilities:
- Managing incoming and outgoing correspondence and ensuring proper document circulation in cooperation with internal departments
- Coordinating the dispatch of parcels
- Handling administrative and court fee submissions
- Preparing, editing, and archiving legal and administrative documentation
- Providing comprehensive support to attorneys and legal advisers in ongoing court and administrative proceedings, including compiling and sending procedural documents
- Maintaining and organizing court case files
Requirements:
- Minimum of one year of experience in an assistant position within a law firm
- Ability to efficiently manage multiple tasks and shift priorities as needed
- Very good command of MS Office, particularly Outlook and Excel
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Excellent organizational skills, accuracy, and attention to detail
- Ability to work collaboratively within a team
- Capability to perform effectively under time pressure
- Good command of the English language
We offer:
- Fixed working hours: 8:00–16:00 or 9:00–17:00
- Comprehensive benefits package, including local and global training opportunities, medical care, group insurance, and online yoga classes
- Stable employment under an employment contract
- Professional and supportive working environment
- Access to modern tools and resources to support daily tasks
Baker McKenzie is consistently ranked among the top law firms in prestigious international legal rankings and is recognized as the strongest law firm brand globally, according to the Thomson Reuters Global Elite Law Firm Brand Index. For over 30 years, our distinguishing feature and competitive advantage in the Polish market has been the combination of international reach and global expertise with local know how, a wide range of practice areas, and a deep understanding of the evolving global and local business environment.
Baker McKenzie Poland employs over 170 lawyers and tax advisers with extensive experience in handling large-scale and often pioneering transactions and projects for leading multinational corporations as well as domestic businesses and institutions.
Additional Information
At Baker McKenzie, we stand out through our mindset and the way we work — we instinctively combine a global perspective with a truly multicultural approach, made possible by collaborative relationships and practical, innovative advice. The global Baker McKenzie network delivers legal services through more than 6,000 lawyers across 45 jurisdictions, providing us with deep insight into business cultures around the world and enabling us to offer the talent and expertise necessary to navigate complex cross border matters with ease.
Information on the processing of Candidates' personal data:
We would like to inform you that by sending your recruitment application to Baker McKenzie Krzyżowski i Wspólnicy Sp. k. with its registered office at 69 Chmielna Street, 00-801 Warsaw (the "Firm"), you agree that we may process your personal data contained in the recruitment application in order to carry out the recruitment for the position indicated in the advertisement.
The Law Firm will be the administrator of your personal data contained in the recruitment application. The provision of information such as: (i) your name; (ii) contact details; (iii) educational background; (iv) previous employment history, is voluntary, however, the consequence of failing to provide such information will be that we will not be able to consider you for the selected job position.
The Firm processes your personal data for the purpose of recruiting employees, on the basis of Article 6(1)(a) or (b) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 in conjunction with Article 22(1) of the Labour Code.
By sending us your recruitment application, you agree that the Law Firm may process the personal data contained in the application to the extent provided for in the Labour Code. In the case of other data to the extent indicated by you (e.g. interests, image), please include a statement with the following content: "I agree to the processing by Baker McKenzie Krzyżowski i Wspólnicy Sp. k. with its registered office at 69 Chmielna Street, 00-801 Warsaw, of the personal data contained in my recruitment application beyond the scope provided for by the Labour Code and additionally contained in the documents sent by me. I am aware that I may withdraw my consent at any time and that withdrawal of consent does not affect the legality of the processing performed before its withdrawal ".
If you do not want the Law Firm to process additional data about you (e.g. interests, image), please do not include them in your CV and other recruitment documents (e.g. cover letter). Your data will be kept until the end of the recruitment process for the selected position, and when you agree to participate in future recruitment for a period of no longer than 12 months from the date of giving your consent.
If you wish to participate in future recruitments conducted by the Firm, please include in your CV or cover letter a statement of your consent to the processing of your personal data for use in future recruitments conducted by the Firm over the next 12 months, e.g.: "I consent to Baker McKenzie Krzyżowski i Wspólnicy Sp. k. with its registered office at 69 Chmielna Street, 00-801 Warsaw, processing the personal data contained in my recruitment application for the purposes of future recruitment for a period of 12 months from the date of consent. I am aware that I can withdraw my consent at any time and that withdrawal of consent does not affect the legality of the processing performed before its withdrawal ".
You have the right to access the content of your data and, if there are circumstances provided by law, the right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing and the right to request data portability. If your data will be processed on the basis of consent, you also have the right to withdraw it at any time by contacting us at: recruitment.warsaw@bakermckenzie.com, which will not affect the lawfulness of the processing we have carried out on the basis of consent before revocation. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority regarding the Law Firm's processing of your Personal Data.
In order to exercise these rights and if you have any questions about the processing of your data, please contact us by email at: recruitment.warsaw@bakermckenzie.com