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About the Role
We are seeking a Paralegal to join our leading Employment department. This is an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in employment law and develop your skills and expertise in this area.
Responsibilities
- Document management including preparation of hearing bundles and reviewing and redacting data.
- Conduct legal research on a range of employment topics, producing written notes for fee earners and ensuring all relevant information is considered.
- Draft legal documents, ranging from employment contracts to Grounds of Claim/Resistance and witness statements.
- Draft correspondence and advice notes to clients under supervision.
- Interact with clients and provide client care.
- Review documents and analyze the legal position for fee-earners.
- Support fee-earners during the litigation process at all tribunal and Court levels, including case management, document handling, drafting applications to the Court, and corresponding with Courts and Tribunals.
- Take notes at client meetings and Court hearings.
- Check legal forms and documents for accuracy.
- Proofread legal documents.
- Support the department in running client-facing marketing events.
- Manage own workload and fee-earners' expectations to deliver work on time.
- Produce legally accurate letters of advice to clients under supervision.
- Draft correspondence to third parties, including the Employment Tribunals.
- Circulate internal legal updates to fee-earners.
- Produce accurate attendance notes documenting telephone calls/meetings.
- Produce accurate memorandums documenting the results of research.
- Communicate directly with a variety of clients daily, including senior officials and high-profile clients, under supervision.
- Take instructions from fee earners.
- Communicate information back to team members following research or problems encountered.
- Take attendance notes in client meetings.
- Complete necessary follow-up work from meetings as instructed.
- Take initial instructions from clients via telephone/email, analyze facts, and identify client objectives, recording them clearly for the head of department.
- Research and report to fee earners on likely methods of achieving client objectives, considering law, personal priorities, commercial practicalities, and timing.
- Participate in team meetings.
- Attend internal and external training as required.
- Stay updated with developments in law and practice to maintain work standards.
Requirements
- Degree educated, or equivalent.
- Previous Paralegal experience desirable.
- Ability to perform legal research.
- Knowledge of legal terminology and principles.
- Ability to analyze legal documents for accuracy.
- A spirit of cooperation and a positive 'can do' attitude.
- Commitment to the success of the firm.
- Good team player.
- Excellent English verbal and written communication skills are essential.
- Excellent organizational skills, ability to use initiative, and work well under pressure.
- Ability to work to tight deadlines.
- Good spelling and grammar.
- Ability to prioritize.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to relate to people at all levels.
- Ability to multi-task.
- Willingness and capability to serve client needs and handle client relations at the highest level.
- Personable but highly professional.
- Enthusiasm for working in a busy working environment.
- Flexibility to work outside normal office hours may be required from time to time.
Skills
- Legal research
- Legal terminology
- Legal principles
- Document analysis
- Verbal communication
- Written communication
- Organizational skills
- Initiative
- Working under pressure
- Time management
- Prioritization
- Multi-tasking
- Client relations
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full Time
- Hybrid Working
- Part-time options
Experience Level
- Previous Paralegal experience desirable
Education Level
- Degree educated, or equivalent
Benefits
- Impact-Driven Purpose
- Climate Programme
- Championing Inclusion
- Flexible and Hybrid Working
- Part-time options
- At least two office days weekly
- Green pensions
- IVF support
- Private healthcare
About the Company
- We align profit with social purpose to create lasting positive impact for our people, communities, and planet.
- Through our Climate Programme, we reduce environmental impact and drive a just transition to net zero.
- We foster a diverse, inclusive culture where creativity and innovation thrive.