Litigation Paralegal
2 weeks ago
Title Paralegal Litigation/ Dispute Resolution
Salary range £21k to £26k (depending on experience)
Base Location Stockport
The Purpose of the Litigation Paralegal:
- The role of the Paralegal is to undertake some fee earning work (under supervision) and to work with the support team to ensure services are delivered at optimum speed and efficiency.
- The Paralegal is expected to use a high degree of selfmanagement and initiative to ensure the smooth running of service delivery for the team.
- To undertake feeearning work and to work with the support team in support of other senior fee earners to provide a profitable contribution to the work of the group.
Key responsibilities for the Litigation Paralegal role:
- Conduct of tasks under the supervision of other fee earners on behalf of clients accurately, reliably and in accordance with the firm's quality and risk management procedures.
- To work on court documents and bundles accurately and in accordance with instructions of senior fee earners.
- To deal with new enquiries in accordance with the team's procedures and the instructions of senior fee earners
- Attending meetings and court hearings (to support senior fee earners and/or the instructed barristers) when requested to do so to take detailed and accurate notes and typing up those notes in a timely manner and saving them to the case management system
- Deputise, where appropriate, for fee earners in their absence, taking calls, passing urgent issues to another fee earner for guidance and support fee earning work undertaken by colleagues when required.
- Provide routine updates to clients and make chasing telephone calls and composing and sending chasing letters to speed up service delivery.
- Use own initiative and knowledge of the work type to make routine requests for information and enquiries to progress the case as quickly as possible.
- Send all standard letters, some on own initiative and some at request of fee earner.
- Manage the document assembly and delivery of non standard letters that have been typed by the fee earner or outsourced and putting them with relevant enclosures and doing all related filing.
- Raise bills (except those raised by members of the accounts team) and send them out with appropriate correspondence and deal with all payments in; updating the file and liaising with the accounts team.
- Coordinate within the team all associated tasks such as copying, scanning, binding and booking couriers etc to ensure service delivery standards are not compromised.
- Undertake training when required and have a responsibility towards selfdevelopment. This will include legal, supervision and ICT skills appropriate to modern legal practice.
Skills & attitude:
- A team player within the group and firm as a whole.
- Efficient, well organised, and timely.
- Effective communicator by telephone, face to face and in writing.
- Excellent client care and communication skills
Training & education:
- Paralegal experience in Dispute Resolution/Debt Recovery (1 year preferred)
- Law Degree/CILEX (or equivalent)
- Possibly LPC (or working towards)
- Excellent IT skills
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