Paralegal

**How you **can help us achieve our mission**

Microsoft has an immediate opening for an experienced paralegal to join its EMEA Legal Central Team (ELCT), which is part of the company’s Corporate External & Legal Affairs department in Europe (CELA).

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our goal.

The role location is flexible within Europe, but within proximity to a Microsoft office.

**Responsibilities**:
Legal Knowledge and Support
- Proactively supports paralegals, attorneys and other department roles on routine and non-routine legal matters.
- Reviews business materials (e.g., marketing collateral, proposals, requests for proposals) and programs for compliance with applicable laws and Microsoft internal policies.
- Prepares reports and materials for department activities.
- Requests materials from attorneys, clients, third parties, outside counsel, and/or company personnel.
- Builds knowledge of Microsoft’s business, Legal and Corporate Affairs processes, and Microsoft policies.

Operational Excellence
- Uses and maintains company tools, resources, databases, and processes related to one's practice area to efficiently achieve work objectives and recommends ways to improve efficiency.
- Evaluates and prioritizes one's own work based on the needs of the team and supervisor direction.
- Works in alignment with priorities established for practice group.
- Monitors timelines and schedules to ensure deadlines are met.

Client Counseling
- Participates in meetings with attorneys, business clients, and outside counsel as required.
- Prepares presentations and communicates with others across practice area to ensure consensus and a coordinated voice for client solutions.
- Supports the scale objectives of the paralegal team in developing solutions that enable clients to act towards achieving business objectives.

Projects and Initiatives
- Collaborates on and demonstrates accountability for achieving project goals within practice group, and contributes to team projects outside of practice group.

Other
- Embody our culture and values

**Qualifications**:
**Qualifications**

Required/Minimum Qualifications
- Associate’s Degree AND a year's experience+ in paralegal, legal administration, or relevant area
- OR multiple year's experience in paralegal, legal administration, or relevant area.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree AND multiple year's experience in paralegal, legal administration, or relevant area.
- Multiple years relevant in-house experience.