Law Intern

Description

Job Summary: Provide support to lawyers’ activities by performing various procedural and administrative tasks, with emphasis on client service and organization. Key Highlights: 1. Comprehensive support to lawyers in procedural and administrative tasks. 2. Opportunity to enhance legal knowledge and skills. 3. Work in a collaborative environment focused on continuous improvement. **JOB MISSION** Provide support to lawyers’ activities. **BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES: COMMITMENT, SOCIABILITY, AND PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT** * Attendance and punctuality: Regularly attends and remains at the workplace, consistently adhering to established or agreed working hours. * Contribution to workplace quality: Contributes to a healthy work environment by maintaining a positive and respectful attitude toward internal and external SILVA FREITAS clients. * Team spirit: Works collaboratively and respectfully within a team. * Flexibility and adaptability: Demonstrates ability to adapt and work effectively in diverse and changing situations, with various individuals and groups. * Continuous improvement: Recognizes errors committed and uses them as learning and development opportunities, applying such insights to improve deliverables and outcomes. * Promptness: Demonstrates willingness and readiness to respond to work demands. * Professional confidentiality: Maintains confidentiality of SILVA FREITAS information and incidents. * Diligence: Uses office materials, facilities, and equipment appropriately, contributing to resource conservation and responsible use of office resources (e.g., water, electricity, machines, stationery, hygiene, cleaning, etc.). **JOB-SPECIFIC BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES** * Willingness to learn: Consistently demonstrates interest and actively pursues ongoing development and continuous improvement; expresses readiness to learn and enhance knowledge, skills, and competencies. * Attention to detail and organization: Attends to specificities and details required for reviews; identifies inconsistencies and discrepancies to ensure delivery quality and compliance with regulations and legislation. * Focused attention: Ability to remain focused on tasks by excluding non-essential elements, aligned with one’s objective. * Receiving feedback: Accepts feedback as opportunities for improvement and development. * Initiative: Identifies opportunities for improvement and problem solutions, acting proactively; assumes responsibility for outcomes and drives proposals and projects that contribute to procedural refinement and result quality. **JOB RESPONSIBILITIES** * Draft various procedural documents; * Host clients with ongoing cases, providing requested information upon lawyer’s instruction; * Conduct client contact and service under lawyer supervision; * Complete tasks assigned in the CPJ calendar; * Strictly comply with procedural deadlines assigned, observing the D-1 rule; * Submit procedural documents strictly adhering to SILVA E FREITAS formatting standards; * Conduct preliminary analysis of cases scheduled for hearings, when requested by the lawyer; * Request appointment scheduling and rescheduling for clients via CPJ reception; * Update legal foundations (statutes and case law) in procedural documents; * Attend hearings as required or deemed convenient by the lawyer; * Research case law and legal doctrines; * Attend court for various activities; * Photocopy and scan documents; * Record all client-related information and contacts in the CPJ system; * Consult case files and enter data into court websites; * File procedural documents with courts; * Prepare reports regarding assigned activities; * Attend courses offered and/or recommended by the firm; * Participate in and assist, when requested, in mini-course development; * Maintain one’s workspace organized; * Ensure acoustic comfort in shared workspaces, respecting colleagues’ need for concentration; * Keep common areas clean and organized (kitchen, restrooms/corporate citizenship); * Respond to requests from the immediate supervisor; * Act as a promoter of SILVA FREITAS values; * Strictly conduct professional activities in accordance with the decorum set forth in the SILVA FREITAS Internal Regulations; * Follow SILVA FREITAS corporate identity image guidelines while performing duties. **Job Requirements** * Law students from the 4th semester onward; * Availability for afternoon shifts.