Description
We are currently looking for a talented Legal Advisor to join our Sheffield office to provide legal advice as part of our Free Legal Advice service.
With a passion for blending your technical expertise with your outstanding communication and client care skills, you will take pride in delivering a first class service to our clients. To ensure you thrive in the role, we will provide you with structured supervision, coaching and training as well as a nurturing environment, where you can grow and shape your career.
We are open to applicants looking for both full-time or part-time work between Monday - Friday, please let us know what your circumstances are and we will do our very best to accommodate for you.
Key Responsibilities
* Proactively capture all relevant information and provide general legal advice on a wide range of topics e.g., Family, disputes and consumer law.
* Provide Union members with advice, guidance, and support related to a range of legal issues or concerns and responding to calls, emails and messages in a professional and timely manner.
* Conducting legal research.
* Producing written materials such as fact sheets which can be sent to Union members, confirming the advice given.
About You
* Attention to detail to provide a high standard of client care to each client.
* Experience in giving legal advice, both over the phone and email would be essential.
* Motivation for keeping abreast of key changes in the law and have an ability to share knowledge proactively with other colleagues.
* Be able to show empathy and understanding, providing a professional legal service with a personal touch.
* Good working knowledge of the Microsoft package e.g., Word, Excel and Outlook.
Benefits
* Contributory pension scheme
* 5 days additional leave over Christmas
* Permanent health insurance
* Healthcare Cash Plan (Medicash)
* Life assurance
* 23 days annual leave (in addition to bank holidays)
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
* Cycle to work scheme
* Subsidised sports and social club
* Annual travel and parking loans
* Financial assistance for professional development
For 100 years, leading social justice law firm, Thompsons Solicitors, has been fighting for the rights of the injured and mistreated and changing lives for the better. Since 1921, we have stood shoulder-to-shoulder with trade unions to implement key legal reforms and give a voice to those who might otherwise have been disadvantaged and marginalised.
Thompsons ran:
• the case that established the right for injured workers to be compensated in 1937
• the first asbestos case that was successful in the House of Lords in 1972
• the first equal pay for equal value claim in the UK (1988) and later in Europe (1993)
• the case against UK construction companies for blacklisting union members in 2016
• hundreds of cases on behalf of women who received negligent treatment at the hands of disgraced breast surgeon, Ian Paterson (2017) and behalf of those injured by mesh (2019).
Today, Thompsons employs 800 staff who work at 18 offices right across the UK. Key areas of legal specialism include: personal injury, serious injury, asbestos diseases, medical negligence, road traffic accidents, accidents at work, industrial diseases and trade union law. As a point of principle, the firm has never worked for employers or insurers.
Over the last 100 years, we have consistently won the cases that have advanced the law for working people, but, as long as there are employers who put profit before the safety and rights of their workforce, there is always more to do. We continue to expose injustice, holding those responsible to account and campaigning for positive change.
We want to hear from anyone who is keen to progress a legal career with a firm that won’t let up in its quest for fairness.
Visit www.thompsons.law or call 0800 0 224 224
Thompsons Solicitors is a trading name of Thompsons Solicitors LLP.