Litigation Paralegal
Spalding
Full time/Permanent
Salary up to £30,000 depending on skill set and experience
Prescient Group is partnered with a highly prestigious, professional top 150 national law firm with five strategically located offices across the Midlands and East Anglia.
They adopt a one-team ethos across all offices and pride themselves on building longstanding relationships with clients
You will join a welcoming, professional team who work collaboratively as one by:
Building trust, driving to be better, embracing individual talent, making a difference, and using big picture thinking that gets the detail right
This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in interesting and good quality work as a member of a growing team which looks outwards and thrives on delivering a great job for clients.
The role comes with some fantastic financial, physical, and social benefits
Main Responsibilities
Producing legal documentation as required
Drafting of basic deeds, documents, and letters
Drafting financial statements
Engaging in legal research as appropriate
Be involved in the efficient management of client/matter files to include general filing in a timely and accurate manner, file closure, archiving, retrieval and return from storage as required including updating relevant databases
Operate case management system including storing documents electronically.
Monitoring compliance and Lexcel requirements
Skills Required
Have a strong desire to learn and widen knowledge
Have the ability to act independently to a reasonably high level, but also to work with more experienced partners and fee earners on more complex and specialised matters, as required
Have experience of building relationships with both new and existing clients and professionals, as well as a natural ability to promote marketing and business development initiatives in a dynamic way
Possess good communication skills in order to explain legal matters clearly to clients
Be able to tackle tasks in a structured manner to ensure completion to a high standard
Demonstrate solid organisation and time management skills
This role will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service, Baseline Personnel Security Standards, Counter Terrorist Check and Security Check, or Developed Vetting clearance.
Contact: Emma or Charlotte at Prescient Group
***Due to the nature of the business, the successful candidate will need to undertake full Safeguarding vetting and an enhanced DBS check***
If you meet the criteria above, send us your CV. We receive a large number of applications so if you do not hear back within 7 days consider your application unsuccessful this time. We will keep a copy of your details on file for future vacancies.
The Prescient Group will be managing your application by the GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018. If your application is successful, we will contact you and manage your personal data in accordance with the guidelines of GDPR