Lawyers on Demand, a Consilio Company, is one of the largest and fastest growing global legal services businesses, and as a 'new law' pioneer, we continue to lead the market we've created.
With a global team of over 600 attorneys and consultants working across our secondments, legal advisory services, and legal operations & tech solutions, we want you to be a part of our exciting journey.
Who are we looking for?
We have a strong pipeline of exciting and career-enhancing full-time and part-time assignments across the Biotech, Marketing, Fintech, Consumer Goods, Pharma and Technology sectors, and we're interested in hearing from Immigration Assistants to join us and commence their LOD journey.
Overview:
- Contract Role - Anticipated Duration of 4 Months (Immediate Hiring Need)
- Contract Pay Starting at $30/hour
- Hours are 9:00am - 5:30pm (37.5 hours per week)
- Hybrid in DC - TWR in-office, MF remote
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Assist with consular application services, including completing and coordinating visa applications and document legalization/authentication requirements and communicating with multiple stakeholders regarding application process and timelines under attorney instruction and supervision
- Under the supervision of an attorney, assist with coordinating global immigration matters with our network of local counsel and consultants, including reviewing, tracking, and updating reports and databases with large volumes of case data
- Communicate clearly and effectively to corporate clients and their employees about immigration benefits, government procedures, and case processing time lines
- Assist multiple attorneys with meticulously tracking and reporting visa expiration dates and filing deadline
To join us, you will:
- Have at least 5 years of experience ideally gained from top or mid-tier law firms or in-house (with strong legal training)
- Be client centric - commercially minded, adaptable and able to hit the ground running
- Possess a Bachelor's degree and over 2 years of relevant experience
- Have experience working on global immigration matters, including consular processing and document legalization and authentication
No assignment or day is ever the same. Our clients are large national and international companies. This is a great opportunity to diversify your experience and bolster your CV through a career with LOD. These assignments are of varied durations, ranging anywhere from 3-6 months initially or long term.
What sets us apart?
People join us for a range of reasons - the life of an LOD professional is like no other.
- CV-enhancing work with global brands: We provide our people with varied, challenging, career-enhancing work with world-class global brands, allowing them to take control of their career and diversify their experience across a range of industries.
- No limits: We've helped open doors, break glass ceilings, facilitate the transition from private practice to in-house, and develop career pathways to become a GC. Whatever direction you want to take your career, we can help you get there.
- You call the shots: We take work-life balance pretty seriously. You can work on-site with our clients or remotely, undertake full-time or part-time assignments, or assignments that are for set months of a year - it's your choice.
- You're never on your own: Throughout your LOD career, you'll become part of a community. You'll be supported by your LOD colleagues and our HQ team, LOD social events, and receive training opportunities to assist in your ongoing growth and development.
- Our Ways Of Working help shape who we are and what we do: we deliver, we are creative, we are inclusive, we care & collaborate, and we are trusted.
- We're global: LOD can provide you with local, interstate and international working opportunities.
LOD is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Diversity and inclusion is a core part of our Ways of Working, and we celebrate and embrace it. We know the individual differences of our people make us collectively better and we encourage all applicants; including people with disability, career breaks, gender diverse, LGBTQIA, and culturally diverse communities to join us so we can do great things together.