Salary £competitive
Location Southampton
This is a permanent, full time vacancy
The vacancy
Moore Barlow is seeking a Paralegal to join our Personal Injury Team (serious injury) based in our Southampton office.
As a Paralegal within the Personal Injury team, you will play a key role within the team by assisting qualified solicitors and other paralegals to manage their caseload in fee-earning capacity.
In addition, you will:
Assist on a range of Personal Injury cases (typically brain injury, fatal accidents, complex fractures and amputation) by helping the Solicitor to liaise with the clients and other parties involved in the case, preparing documents and letters.
Assist in the collating of medical evidence to include requesting and sorting medical records. You will assist with researching medico legal experts, drafting instructions to experts and arranging appointments.
Collaborate closely with colleagues of all seniorities in the team, working towards achieving the best possible outcome for our clients and their families.
Help manage client needs with an awareness of the commerciality of the claim.
Act as a point of contact and team liaison throughout the progress of the matter.
Help to support clients through the complex legal processes associated with their matter, ensuring their best interests are considered at all times.
Attend client meetings and prepare comprehensive attendance notes.
Various administrative duties, such as making and receiving phone calls, supporting with the billing process, and scheduling appointments.
Taking on additional fee-earning and non-fee-earning responsibilities as required.
This role offers an excellent opportunity to gain hands-on experience in this specialist area of law. You will be immersed in the broad variety of Personal Injury matters, building a strong foundation of knowledge and practical skills that will serve you throughout your career.
You will have the chance to work with a diverse range of clients and third parties, helping you develop valuable technical and interpersonal skills, and the ability to adapt your approach to different clients’ needs. Alongside this, you will be supported by highly experienced colleagues who have been practicing within the Personal Injury sector for many years, giving you the chance to learn directly from experts while carving out your own reputation in this area of practice.
This position comes with a great opportunity for professional development; as you continue to develop your skills and understanding of this area of law, and under supervision to become involved in more complex and technically demanding tasks.
What we look for:
Moore Barlow is human-first in everything we do, and we seek people who share this trait. You will therefore need to have excellent communication skills, a passion for helping clients achieve their goals and the ability to think creatively.
In addition;
We estimate that this position will appeal to an individual at the earlier stages of their career, such as a college leaver or graduate.
Equally, this role would suit an existing Paralegal (with or without prior Personal Injury experience) who is looking to take that next step in their professional development.
Our team works to deadlines and other service level agreements that we have in place with our clients; therefore you will be calm under pressure, adopt a naturally proactive and organised approach to your work, with the ability to adapt to short-notice changes in priorities.
You will be confident in building relationships within and outside of your immediate team and able to work collaboratively to achieve the best possible outcomes for our clients.
If you have the required skills and experience and are keen to advance your career as part of our specialist Personal Injury team, then we strongly encourage you to apply.
Who we are
We are Moore Barlow, a top regional career law firm with a simple mission – to make a difference.
We support our clients and the communities we help through providing outstanding legal services with empathy and expertise. A full service law firm, we support these core client groups: Individuals & Families, Entrepreneurial Businesses & Organisations and Personal/Catastrophic Injury & Medical Negligence.
We are passionate about making a difference to our people, their careers and care deeply about their experience at work. Moore Barlow aims to be recognised as the best career law firm to work for. This means that we care as much about your career as you do. So whether you join us early in your career, in one of our outstanding business support functions or are continuing an already rich career in law, you’ll find Moore Barlow a great place to further build your experience.
With numerous top-tier rankings in law, exceptional quality of work and named a Times Top 100 best law firm to work for, we have big plans. We are seeking passionate, human-focused individuals like you as we continue to grow. With over 450 dedicated professionals including 70 Partners and 272 Lawyers, Moore Barlow offers substantial opportunity for further advancement and personal development.
What we can offer
Our culture is open, diverse and inclusive and we look for likeminded individuals who recognise that it’s this individuality that allows us to be truly different to other firms. Everything we do is underpinned by the Moore Barlow Way, which is a set of values and principles to ensure consistency of experience no matter which team you work within.
As a true career firm, we seek to reward the great work our people undertake with continued personal development opportunities. We have big plans for growth, and we see that this creates extensive opportunity for our people as we move towards our long-term ambitions.
In most of our roles, we are also open to supporting hybrid, flexible working and different work patterns. What you do outside of work is as important as your time inside of work – and we want to strike the right balance for both the individual and the firm.
We also offer great benefits including 28 days’ annual leave, private medical insurance, income protection, life assurance, firmwide bonus scheme and a generous pension scheme.
If you’re seeking to join a firm that seeks to provide a personal and highly engaging place to work – we are confident that you’ll find this at Moore Barlow.
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