Your Role
and What You'll Be Doing
If you enjoy being part of a successful, friendly, and high-performing team, this is the role for you.
You’ll be a key point of contact for our clients, many of whom have life-changing disabilities such as serious brain injuries, dementia, and mental health illnesses. You’ll help these individuals manage their financial affairs and work closely with the team’s Associates and Partners to ensure they have the right support at all times.
This is a busy and fast-paced role, so you’ll need to work quickly and accurately while building strong relationships with your team and our clients.
Your responsibilities will include (but are not limited to):
1. Taking instructions from clients and assisting with the provision of legal advice, including obtaining evidence and, where appropriate, supporting litigation to achieve appropriate resolutions
2. Achieving time recording and fee income targets to ensure profitable working
3. Attending and contributing to team/practice area meetings and complying with directions/decisions to achieve team objectives
4. Keeping up to date with changes in relevant law and practice and attending appropriate training events to maintain legal knowledge and best practice
About You
5. Enthusiasm, a can-do attitude, and willingness to contribute to the team
6. Previous paralegal experience (desirable but not essential)
7. Ability to work on your own initiative
8. Excellent accuracy and attention to detail
9. Practical experience in a similar role
10. Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel
Our Values
We’re proud of our values and are looking for people who share them:
11. Pioneering with an imaginative outlook
12. Approachable and caring
13. Tenacious in the pursuit of our objectives
14. Efficient in the provision of our services
15. Working with a foundation of integrity
Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You
16. 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
17. Generous and flexible pension schemes.
18. Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
19. 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.
We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!
Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.
Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.