We are recruiting for an Assistant Paralegal / Paralegal to join our Document Review and Collation team in Bristol
This is an excellent opportunity for you to support both contentious and non-contentious fee earners from across the firm with the review and collation of documents including pre-action disclosure, data access requests and the creation of court bundles.
Your Role and Key Responsibilities
* Undertake a first level review of Data Subject Access Requests, including redactions, with attention to detail, accuracy, and speed.
* Using e-disclosure platforms such as Relativity to conduct reviews and E-disclosure exercises.
* Being a team player, with the ability to work on your own initiative, but as part of the team to ensure that the team’s time is being effectively managed to meet deadlines of the existing workload.
* This is a hybrid role, with 50% office attendance expected.
* Reporting into management regularly on the progression of on-going work.
* Managing your financial outputs carefully, and to encourage those around you to do the same, ensuring changes to time/cost/quality to the project are properly considered and managed.
Your Knowledge, Skills and Experience
* Paralegal experience gained within a document review role would be advantageous.
* Proven technical ability to identify privilege.
* Proven technical ability to work on a data subject access request.
* Experience of using Document Review Platforms such as Relativity.
* The ability to build and maintain professional relationship with colleagues.
* Excellent communication and self-management skills.
* Ability to multitask and work to tight deadlines.
* Accuracy, good organisational skills and flexibility.
Your Team
There is an exciting opportunity to join our Document Review and Collation Team (DRC) within our Managed Legal Services which provides multi-disciplinary expertise and scalable legal and complementary resources to support all TLT legal groups when delivering large scale projects and legal managed services for our clients.
The DRC team is made up of a combination of non-qualified / qualified resource and paralegals who support both contentious and non-contentious fee earners from across the firm on a variety of matters.
About TLT
Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.
We work with high profile clients in innovative sectors. With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,800 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. TLT was named Law Firm of the Year at the Legal Business Awards 2023. This marks the third year in a row the firm has taken away this accolade in industry awards - having previously been named Law Firm of the Year at The Lawyer Awards in 2021 and the British Legal Awards in 2022.
Our purpose is to protect, prepare and progress our clients for what comes next and it’s essential that we do the same for our people, our planet and our communities too. In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute.
Our Benefits
We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance.
At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of our people. We’re happy to talk about how flexible working can work for you and this role.