We’re a national law firm with a local reach. Our philosophy is ‘we're legal and financial experts that care’ – something you’ll find in the way we work with our clients and how we support our teams. But we’re more than just a law firm – we’re a team of people working together to help individuals and businesses navigate life’s ups and downs. Working here you’ll feel a part of our friendly and inclusive environment.
We’ll value you for who you are and what you bring. We support each other and push boundaries to achieve incredible things and make a real difference to our clients and communities.
Our Team
The Commercial Litigation team in Sheffield handles a variety of complex commercial and consumer disputes for both commercial and individual clients. The team specialises in professional negligence claims and deals with a vast breadth of such cases involving construction professionals, solicitors, accountants, barristers, financial advisors and insurance brokers.
Your Role and What You'll Be Doing
As a Paralegal in Commercial Litigation, you’ll have the chance to manage your own caseload and develop strong relationships with your own clients. You’ll need to have the confidence to deal with matters right from the very beginning, being both approachable as well as efficient to resolve matters as quickly as possible for our clients.
What we'll need from you:
* Relevant Commercial Disputes / Commercial Litigation experience
* A Law Degree or CILEX qualified
* Previous Paralegal experience
* Preferably some experience in consumer rights and commercial law negligence
* Empathy and compassion to help guide our clients through challenging personal circumstances
* A friendly, enthusiastic and can-do approach
We’re proud of our values, and we’re looking for people who share them:
* To be pioneering with an imaginative outlook
* To be approachable and caring
* To be tenacious in the pursuit of our objectives
* To be efficient in the provision of our services
* To work with a foundation of integrity.
If this sounds like you, we’d love to receive your application.
Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You:
* 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
* Generous and flexible pension schemes.
* Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
* Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.
We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.
Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.
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