Legal Associate

Location: Dublin

ICON plc, a leading Contract Research Organisation, employing approximately 13,500 employees across 97 offices in 38 countries, seeks an experienced and highly motivated legal associate/paralegal to join its Legal Department at its Leopardstown Global HQ.

This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and hardworking paralegal/ legal executive to join ICON’s highly professional and experienced in-house legal department to support the negotiation and execution of contracts on a global basis.

Based in our global HQ, this is a fantastic opportunity to join one of Ireland’s largest legal teams in a position where you can make an impact globally and support ICON’s mission to help its clients to accelerate the development of drugs and medical devices that save patient lives and improve their quality of life.

The successful applicant will be part of a global legal team that supports the negotiation of clinical trial contracts with healthcare institutions and healthcare professional across the world. You will provide legal support to ICONs clinical operations and Study Start Up teams in relation to all legal aspects of the setup of new global clinical trial studies.

• Review, draft and negotiate a wide range of commercial contracts on ICON’s behalf such as confidentiality agreements, clinical study service agreements, ancillary service agreements and consultancy agreements.
• Create and apply fall-back to ICON standard contract templates for the negotiation of contracts
• Maintain and update standard template commercial agreements.
• Assist senior lawyers in managing negotiations, disputes & investigations across the regions in a diverse range of subjects
• Lead and manage various administrative tasks such as power of attorney renewals, amendments to existing agreements, letters of termination etc.
• Support the legal team in maintaining database of instructions and advising on appropriate contract language.
• Providing training to clinical staff on key aspects of ICON’s commercial contracts.
• Advise non-legal staff on contract language and negotiations, requests outside of established negotiation parameters, and all other pertinent information toward the execution of contract-related documents for a given clinical study.

ICON enjoys a strong reputation for quality and is focused on staff development. We make it our mission to attract the most diverse and creative minds into the business and we continually strive to provide opportunities for our people to excel, grow and build a great career.　

We understand that our greatest asset is the skills and talents of our people and they are truly what set us apart.　

Other than working with a great team of smart and energetic people, we also offer a very competitive benefits package. This varies from country to country so a dedicated recruiter will discuss this with you at interview stage. We care about our people as they are the key to our success. We provide an open and friendly work environment where we empower people and provide them with opportunities to develop their long term career.