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Personal Injury Prisoner Claims Paralegal
Salary: Personal Injury Newly Qualified Solicitor
Closing Date: 11 November 2024
Summary of Benefits:
Company Overview
Express Solicitors are currently ranked 70 out of more than 10,000 law firms in the UK and ranked in the top ten for the Best Law Firm to work for in the UK by Best Companies. We have a 5-star ranking with Trust Pilot from over 6,000 reviews, which, coming from our clients, means a lot to us.
Role
We are currently looking for a Personal Injury Prison Claims Paralegal to join our OL/PL team. The role will be to support a caseload of pre and post issue fast track Personal Injury Prisoner claim cases.
We have high quality non-CMC sources for all our work, ensuring that our lawyers only deal with genuine cases.
Responsibilities
* Supporting with a caseload of Personal Injury Prisoner claims.
* Conducting thorough legal research.
* Preparing and drafting legal documents, including pleadings and witness statements.
* Working in a target-driven, fast-paced environment.
* Collaborating with colleagues to ensure the successful outcome of cases.
* Keeping up to date with changes in relevant laws and regulations.
Person Specification
* LLB Law degree required.
* Previous experience supporting with either claimant or defendant personal injury caseload.
* Genuine tenacity.
* Good customer care skills including empathy and the ability to obtain information.
* High degree of accuracy.
* Administration or telephone-based customer service background is preferable.
* Previous experience working in a personal injury law firm is a distinct advantage.
* A focus on advancing cases to and through litigation to achieve the best possible outcome for our clients.
Salary, Hours & Benefits
* Our standard working hours are 8:30am to 5:30pm Monday-Thursday and 8:30am to 5pm Friday.
* 3/2 hybrid working pattern after probation.
* 23 days holiday a year, rising to 26 days, plus public/bank holidays.
* Extra day’s holiday for your birthday after 2 years’ service.
* 3 holiday buy backs per year after 1 year of service.
* Private medical insurance after 2 years’ service.
* Enhanced Maternity leave payment if you have over 1 year’s tenure, further enhanced at over 4 years’ service.
* Death in service.
* Netball/Football team, 10km Manchester team and more.
* Active social committee with generous departmental and firm-wide social budget.
* Active training culture and various groups and events such as Diversity and Inclusion.
* Other benefits including Employee Assistance Programme, free fruit & annual (optional) flu jab.
Interviews will be conducted by MS Teams and will include scenario-based questioning.
Our employees are our most important asset, we rate skill and ability above all else and our recruitment policy encourages applications from all.
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