PARALEGAL SERVICES

PARALEGAL SERVICES

CAPABILITY STATEMENT

CAPABILITY STATEMENTPARALEGAL SERVICES

CAPABILITY STATEMENTPARALEGAL SERVICES

Proximity is an innovative boutique law firm that is leading the market in service delivery, business management and staff engagement.

Our innovative approach resulted in Proximity receiving the Australian Law Award for Boutique Law Firm of the Year 2016. This award recognises outstanding performance by firms pioneering innovative practices and challenging the structure and culture of traditional firms. Proximity was successful against an extremely strong field of firms across the country based on our professional excellence, innovation, client outcome focus, business strategy, advancement of the profession and corporate social responsibility.

Proximity has an established reputation as a trusted adviser with strong relationships based on mutual respect and an unwavering commitment to helping agencies achieve their business and operational goals. We pride ourselves on taking a client focused approach, listening to our clients and thinking about creative solutions to assist them achieve their objectives.

We are now able to take our service offering one step further in providing a team of paralegals to provide cost effective assistance to government in-house legal teams dealing with ever increasing volumes of routine legal and legal related work.

Our paralegal service can be scaled up or down to meet unexpected surges in demand and can be made available on a full time, full time job-share or part time basis to allow maximum flexibility.

Our high-performing paralegals:

> have strong analytical, legal research and drafting skills

> are self-starters who use their initiative to achieve results effectively

> can work as part of your team at your direction or form part of a broader Proximity team to deliver defined outcomes

> are able to adapt to a range of complex issues and manage competing deadlines

> have strong communication and interpersonal skills

They can assist with:

> Freedom of Information support including document review, process and draft decisions

> litigation support such as responding to subpoenas, document review and collation, discovery and preparation of briefs to counsel

> contracting support including contract management, contract review, document review and audit

> legal drafting and research and statutory interpretation

> administrative decision support including preliminary research and review of administrative decisions

> precedents including reviewing, updating and maintaining precedents and standard form documentation

> due diligence including commercial due diligence, supplier due diligence and intellectual property due diligence

> administrative tasks including file creation, matter management and database management

> providing legal, administrative and logistic support in relation to Royal Commissions and inquiries

Sean KingDirector | Proximity M 0408 167 542P 1800 959 885E sean.king@proximity.com.auW proximity.com.au

Please contact us if you have any questions regarding Proximity. We are happy to meet with you to discuss a customised solution for your needs.

James DunnDirector | Proximity M 0407 888 894P 1800 959 885E james.dunn@proximity.com.auW proximity.com.au

Simon BlakeBusiness Manager | Proximity M 0438 447 514P 1800 959 885E simon.blake@proximity.com.auW proximity.com.au

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