IP Paralegal - Gowling WLG (UK) LLP Guangzhou Representative Office 英国高林睿阁律师事务所驻广州代表处

Job Title: IP Paralegal

Grade: Graduate student, or 1-2 year experiences

Department: IP Team, Guangzhou

Reporting to: IP Director and IP Team generally

Gowling WLG is an international law firm providing a full service to clients worldwide. Committed to delivering first-class legal advice and a partner-led service. Gowling WLG (UK) LLP is well known for its technical excellence, creative thinking and single team approach. Its broad client base spans everything from listed companies to SMEs and multi-national corporations to financial institutions and hundreds of public sector organisations.

Main purpose of the role:  To assist our team of IP lawyers in a wide spectrum of contentious and non-contentious IP strategies in China - principally patent, trade mark and copyright enforcement strategies, with focus on internet monitoring and take downs.  

The Team and your role:

Operating as part of the team, the China office's IP team advises across the full spectrum of IP advice.  The team is cohesive, supportive and both with clients and team members highly responsive and focused on obtaining the best outcome.

The team's spread of work is broad (including patent, trade mark and copyright litigation and enforcement and the team has proven that it has the sectoral and international expertise to attract work of the highest quality.  

· Key sectors for the team are advanced engineering, health and life sciences, technology and manufacturing.  

· Internationally the team works closely with the UK and Canadian offices as well as other international offices. The team members being regular visitors to each jurisdiction.

The business of the team is growing and we are looking for graduate students with great potential to join us and assist us in delivering the very best client experience.  You will work with the director/partners and senior associates across the range of IP work-types and you will have the opportunity to develop your own business development initiatives and improve your professional skills.

Key Skills and Experience:

Legal background with good English or English major with legal basis (commensurate with experience)with an appetite for excellent client service and a desire to be the best they can be.  

We are looking for candidates who are:

• team-spirited

• Have a solid legal/English education background, passed the Chinese Bar exam is a plus

• down-to-earth, wiling to start from minor matter like handling daily paperwork and grow from there

• have ownership of job

• have real interest in IP and keen to expand their knowledge base and skills

• commercial with an ability to think on their feet and exercise sound judgement

• able to develop relationships with colleagues, clients and their peers externally

• good English skills both in written and spoken

Equal Opportunities:

Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment.  The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity.  This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.

At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work.  Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.

Please send CV to: Angel.Yang@gowlingwlg.com and indicate "source from BritCham Guangdong".