What you’ll be doing
Our team of experienced litigators acts for a wide range of clients regionally and nationally including businesses, charities, housing associations and high net worth individuals, and represents clients in all Courts in England and Wales.
The team is expanding and requires a paralegal to join them. The role will involve assisting in a wide range of litigation matters including dispute trusts and wills, Intellectual Property and Data Protection, business disputes and general breach of contract matters, as well as exposure to other matter types the team deals with.
Your standard responsibilities will include fielding initial enquiries, onboarding new clients, dealing with client enquires, assisting with pre-action correspondence, taking proofs of evidence, document and bundle production, tracking deadlines, assisting with general case management, research tasks, creation of marketing materials such as legal Insights and assisting the team’s lawyers generally. You will have the opportunity to liaise with clients, attend meetings, court hearings (County Court and High Court) and be involved in cases from start to finish.
Our team works partly from home and partly from the office and meets regularly for training and general team building. We are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements although initially you will be office-based in Exeter to help you familiarise yourself with the team, our work, and the support available to you.
What we’re looking for
We welcome applications from all backgrounds and whilst you may have experience gained from a similar role, it will be more important for you to be able to demonstrate a genuine interest in the work we do.
You will be confident in communicating with our clients and, under our lawyers’ direction, will be comfortable ensuring that clients have the information they need if our lawyers are engaged elsewhere.
What you’ll have
You will be very well organised and will enjoy organising others. You will have a ‘can-do’ attitude and will be happy to adapt to the requirements of the tasks facing you. Ideally you will be able to demonstrate your problem-solving skills and how you have used these in your previous positions.
An ability and a willingness to work as part of a team with the aim of achieving a common goal would be essential.
What we have
We believe that our people are our most important asset, and are committed to supporting our teams, cultivating a healthy culture of challenge and expectation with support and care. We invest in our teams and our infrastructure to ensure that we attract and retain talented staff and are committed to giving all colleagues the opportunity to reach their full potential, with a real focus on training and development.
Our values; high quality work, healthy growth and happy teams are at the heart of everything we do. Find out more about our vision and values, commitment to colleague wellbeing, and colleague benefits on our website.
