Role: Litigation Paralegal
Location: Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Contract: Full time, permanent
Salary: £25,000 - £25,000
As a Litigation Paralegal within this established in-house legal team, you will play a vital role in managing legal recovery claims relating to commercial property and infrastructure damage. Working within a structured, high-volume environment, your duties will include:
* Monitoring Incoming Claims: Regularly review and assess new damage claims submitted by external stakeholders, contractors, or third parties, ensuring accuracy and completeness of information.
* Case Management: Handle a personal caseload of legal recovery files from initial instruction through to final resolution. Use internal systems to track progress, maintain documentation, and ensure compliance with service level agreements.
* Claim Evaluation & Qualification: Conduct early-stage analysis of claims to determine liability, legal merit, and potential recovery value. Ensure cases meet the required thresholds for progressing to litigation where necessary.
* Negotiation & Settlement: Engage with third parties, insurers, and legal representatives to negotiate out-of-court settlements wherever possible, while protecting the organisation’s commercial interests.
* Litigation Support: Where disputes cannot be resolved through negotiation, prepare case files for formal legal proceedings. This includes drafting pleadings, witness statements, and other relevant legal documents.
* Evidence Gathering: Undertake detailed investigative work by analysing technical documents, reviewing planning maps and diagrams, and liaising with internal operational teams to gather essential case facts.
* Client Liaison & Stakeholder Communication: Maintain regular contact with internal departments and external parties, including engineers, surveyors, contractors, and claims specialists, to ensure consistent information flow throughout the claims process.
* Compliance & Risk Awareness: Ensure that all casework is conducted in line with relevant legislation, regulatory standards, and internal policy. Proactively flag potential legal risks or anomalies to supervising solicitors.
* Use of Case Management Systems: Utilise specialist case management software to manage documentation, record actions, and produce reports. Contribute to data accuracy and overall operational efficiency.
Candidate Profile:
To be considered for this role, applicants must have:
* Applicants will ideally have a law degree and looking to do LPC/ SQE
* Experience ideally in a insurance, claims or legal compliance setting
* The ability to handle a high volume of cases with efficiency and accuracy
* Strog written and verbal communications skills
How to apply:
* If this Claims Paralegal vacancy is of interest, please click the apply button. Alternatively, if you would like to discuss with Caroline Naylor who is managing this vacancy, call 0114 241 8030 for a confidential discussion.
* Are you wanting to review additional career opportunities? Visit our jobs page at www.craconsultants.com/jobs
Additional Information:
* CRA Legal follow strict best practice recruitment guidelines monitored by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC). Please note our advertisements use salary levels purely as a guide. However we are happy to consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary to fulfil the role.
* This vacancy is very popular with the local legal community, so please apply quickly to ensure your application is considered. As part of our candidate registration and care process we at CRA Legal aim to respond to all successful applications within 2 working days.