Role Overview
Vario is a market leading alternative legal services provider within the law firm, Pinsent Masons. It is unique in the legal sector. Vario is a practice group within Pinsent Masons which incorporates; Flexible Services, Consulting and Technology, Legal Project Management and Managed Legal Services (MLS). This role sits within our MLS team.
Our Paralegal Centre of Excellence brings together a range of paralegal skills and capabilities, which provides a variety of services to our practice groups and clients.
As the Vario team grows, we are recruiting Paralegals to deliver a variety of legal work for our clients within a number of practice groups. The role will provide exposure to quality commercial legal work including:
1. Document review projects in relation to litigation, cyber incidents, DSARs and employment matters among others
2. Due diligence of contracts, lending and security documentation and property documents including leases
3. Drafting legal documents and reports
4. Trial and Hearing Preparation - Preparing drafts of documents including witness statements, correspondence, forms, applications, schedules and lists
5. Transactional Support – including company search reports, security registration, post completion tasks and bibles
6. Data room management including uploading documents, redactions, project management and administration
7. Undertaking legal research
8. General administration tasks and assisting fee earners with other ad-hoc duties
For further information about the team, the role and career paths for our Paralegals, please visit:
Our standard working hours are 9.00am-5.00pm, however, we are happy to consider flexible working requests.
Candidate Overview
We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:
9. A passion for quality, excellent service delivery as well as self-improvement
10. An interest in building a career in an alternative legal services environment
11. Experience using Microsoft packages including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
12. Customer service, administrative or previous legal experience would be beneficial
What can we offer you?
13. Tailored career development and support within our award-winning team
14. Agile working (the opportunity to work from home, subject to diary commitments)
15. Carers’ leave (up to five paid days’ leave towards caring responsibilities)
16. 25 days’ annual leave entitlement and the opportunity to purchase or roll over 5 days
17. Contributory pension of up to 5%
18. Private healthcare policy
19. Death in service cover (4 x base salary)
20. Electric car scheme
21. Eligibility to apply for an interest free season ticket loan, an interest free gym membership loan and/or an interest free rental deposit loan
22. Cycle to work scheme