Litigation Paralegal at HM Revenue & Customs
This range is provided by HM Revenue & Customs. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.
Base pay range
We have an opportunity for a Litigation Paralegal in HMRC’s Solicitor’s Office and Legal Services.
The Office is an integral part of HMRC. It is headed by the General Counsel and Solicitor, Alan Evans, and includes approximately 350 lawyers who advise on legal issues arising from HMRC’s policy and operational work and conduct the Department’s litigation. Our legal work is high quality and covers a broad range of subjects. In addition to tax, our advice covers public law issues for HMRC, including human rights, administrative law, freedom of information, criminal law, benefits and credits and commercial law. Our lawyers work in specialist teams handling specific areas of work. Each team tends to focus on either advisory work or litigation and the opportunities available in this trawl are for Litigation. Our paralegals are an integral source of support for our lawyers.
HMRC paralegals work in varied and challenging teams in HMRC Legal Group. These posts are within HMRC Legal Group, Litigation Paralegal Support.
Paralegal Support Teams
* Work a range of litigation.
* Work to and comply with Tribunal/Court Directions.
* Support lawyers with more complex litigation.
As a paralegal, you will have responsibility for supporting lawyers dealing with cases from commencement of proceedings through to hearing and conclusion at Tribunal or Court.
Responsibilities
* Draft and serve notices and applications to be served on the Tribunal.
* Draft and send case correspondence.
* Prepare chronologies.
* Identify relevant documents and produce bundles.
* Attend Tribunal hearings.
* Draft statement of case and other key documents.
* Provide legal support to experienced senior colleagues on complex cases.
Qualifications
* a legal qualification and strong legal research skills, ideally with a good working knowledge of legal databases such as LexisNexis and Westlaw.
* to be very well organised and able to manage a busy and varied workload.
* to be proactive and flexible.
* to have good self-awareness and a commitment to using feedback to learn and develop.
Seniority level
Associate
Employment type
Contract
Job function
Legal
Industries: Government Administration and Government Relations Services
Location: Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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