Customs Enforcement Paralegal Apprentice (Stobbs (IP) Limited)
STOBBS (IP) LIMITED
London, WC1X 8HB
Closes in 25 days (Monday 4 November at 11:59pm)
Posted on 7 October 2024
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Summary
As a Level 3 Customs Enforcement Paralegal Apprentice, you will play a key role in supporting the customs team and also the wider Brand Protection team in safeguarding the intellectual property, brand image, and reputation for well-known global brands.
- Annual wage
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£19,240 a year
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
Salary - £19,240 - £20,540
- Training course
- Paralegal (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday.
Shifts to be confirmed.
37 hours a week
- Possible start date
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Thursday 14 November
- Duration
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2 Years
- Positions available
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1
Work
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work
Working at one of the leading brand advisory firms in this field and working for household and world-famous brands, this Paralegal will be involved in various brand enforcement projects.
You will need to liaising with customs officers and law enforcement officers around the globe (mainly UK and EU). You will be asked to review images and confirm whether the pictured goods are counterfeit.
You will be attending UK law enforcement raids across the country (mainly around Manchester, Birmingham, and Leicester) on behalf of Stobbs’ household clients and providing on-site your assistance.
You will also be preparing legal documents, such as witness statements, Cease and Desist Letters and criminal complaints.
You will be exposed directly to your clients, who are world famous brands. You will have direct access to their brand stories and confidential information as to how to assess the authenticity of their products.
You can expect direct client contact in this role, as well as be in full charge of communications with customs officers and law enforcement officers such as Trading Standards officers.
You will be collecting infringement data. You will need to analyse the data and identify the potential links. This may require you to undertake additional high-level desktop investigations.
You will need to communicate your findings clearly and concisely.
Sometimes you will be responsible for delivering trainings to UK law enforcement officers and Border Force officers, using your knowledge gained through this job.
You will be exposed to wider brand protection work, including litigations.
You will be working within a small team at Stobbs. You will be assigned a supervisor with whom you will have regular contact.
Your duties and responsibilities in this role will consist of:
- Liaising with UK law enforcement officers (such as Trading Standards and police officers) to obtain the relevant data as your supervisor may request from time to time
- Attending law enforcement raids across the UK and providing assistance on site
- Conducting training and education sessions for UK law enforcement officers and Border Force officers
- Identifying data from various sources and accurately recording data
- Confidently using technology tools and Excel sheets
- Independently analysing the data
- Ability to communicate your ideas, findings, and conclusions confidently
Where you’ll work
222 Gray's Inn Road
London
WC1X 8HB
Training
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
College or training organisation
BPP UNIVERSITY LIMITED
Your training course
Paralegal (level 3)
Equal to A level
Course contents
Your training plan
- Any candidates who have started University/Higher Education in Law will not be eligible
More training information
- As a Paralegal Apprentice with BPP, you will complete the Paralegal Level 3 Advanced Apprenticeship
- Additional learning within the apprenticeship will enable you to be awarded a Level 4 Certificate of Higher Education in Legal Services which can afford you exemptions from the first two years of the Level 7 Solicitor Apprenticeship
- Your apprenticeship shall be delivered by online training from and on-the-job learning
Requirements
Essential qualifications
A Level in:
- Any Three (grade CCC or Above)
- Any (grade 104 UCAS points)
- 5 GCSE's including English and Maths (grade (A*-C/9-4 or equivalent))
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Team working
- Reliable and punctual
- Flexible
Other requirements
· Discretionary annual bonus · 2 charity days a year · Professional fees · 28 days holiday + public holidays + birthday leave · Charitable giving T · raining fees, professional development and support · Paid parenthood leave · Bupa private medical cover* · Free lunches and stocked kitchens · Pension contributions (up to 6%, plus salary exchange) · Octopus Money financial wellbeing · Clubs – paddleboarding, book club, folk choir etc · Death in service (4 x annual salary) · YuLife (EAP) · Pool table, shuffleboard etc · Electric car scheme* · Specsavers vouchers · Parties! · Cyclescheme* · Massages in the office · Merch · Refer a friend (£1K+) · Bootcamp, Gym, Peloton etc
About this company
Stobbs is a niche intellectual property practice that recognises that to give the best advice on brands, you need to take a more strategic and holistic approach than pure trade mark expertise. To that end, we launched the concept of Intangible Asset Management. We have a breadth of capability that goes far beyond the scope of any other IP firm and encompasses trade marks, designs and copyright, litigation, disputes, commercial contracts, brand intelligence, brand extension (licensing), systems, online brand enforcement, anti-counterfeiting and brand restructuring. Formed in 2013 with 18 people, today we have over 200 professionals based in Cambridge, London, Dublin, Eindhoven and Munich.
After this apprenticeship
- Upon successful completion of the apprenticeship, there may be opportunities to progress into a permanent role within the Brand Protection team or other related areas of the business, such as legal, marketing, or compliance
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BPP UNIVERSITY LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000280877.
Apply now
Closes in 25 days (Monday 4 November at 11:59pm)
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