Paralegal - Complex Injury Rta / El / Pl

2 weeks ago

Coventry, United Kingdom Keoghs LLP Full time

**Litigation Paralegal - RTA / EL / PL Complex HIgh Value Personal Injury**

**Purpose**:
Keoghs are seeking a Complex Injury Paralegal to join our growing Complex Injury Team in Coventry.

The role offers an excellent opportunity to gain experience in large loss and complex injury work including assisting on large loss RTA / EL / PL cases valued from £100k to £1M. In this role you will be required undertake a variety of file handling tasksto support a small team within our Complex Injury Claims Team. Your work will be supervised and feedback given in order to help develop your skills in this area.

**Key Accountabilities**:
You will work as part of a team, supporting those with responsibility for progressing each file from receipt of papers from the insurer client to resolution of the claim. The role will include:

- Delivery of agreed performance targets and quality standards
- Preparing basic court documents; filing and serving court documents; and diarising of court orders and hearing dates
- Liaising with experts and counsel regarding CVs, fees and availability for conferences, JSMs and hearings
- Liaising with insureds and witnesses regarding attendance at conferences, JSMs and hearings. Drafting of witness summons.
- Registering and updating CRU, notifying CRU of settlement
- Maintaining experts summary, interim payment records and offer history within case management system
- Review of medical records and drafting summaries of those reviews using the records review spreadsheet
- Review of photographic evidence and surveillance footage and preparing a precis of the evidence
- Redaction of documents to ensure legal privilege maintained and/or no GDPR breaches
- Fielding telephone calls and dealing with general queries received from parties involved in the claims including the insureds, insurers, experts and witnesses
- Arranging payments where required
- Conducting legal research.
- To ensure compliance with the SRA Standards & Regulations

As competency in role increases, tasks will also include:

- Preparing instructions to counsel to advise on papers, in conference or to attend hearings
- Liaising with parties involved in claims including the insured and witnesses to obtain evidence and draft witness statements
- Preparing disclosure lists of own evidence and reviewing third party disclosure, cross referencing with own evidence and expert evidence, identifying basic anomalies and inconsistencies
- Attending client meetings and note taking where client approval given

**RECRUITMENT CRITERIA**:

- Minimum education standard of 5 GCSEs grades 5 or above or A-C with established interest in law either through further education (e.g. LPC or ILEX) or experience within a legal environment
- Experience of and understanding of the litigation process is essential, either in a fast / multi track file handling role and/or have experience of assisting on higher value cases
- Good telephone and communication skills with people at all levels inside and outside the business
- An ability to organise and prioritise tasks using initiative
- Calm under pressure with the ability to re-prioritise and delegate effectively when required
- An ability to maintain attention to detail when dealing with repetitive tasks
- Self-confidence, with good literacy and IT skills
- Good team worker with the flexibility to do what is required to get a result and ensure client service levels are met
- Ability to work effectively within the Keoghs shared values framework

**Compensation & Benefits**:
Our culture is focussed on making Keoghs sustainable and successful for our people and clients, with this our five values are at the heart of everything we do;
**Keoghs values**
- We listen, are down to earth and supportive
- We work together towards a common goal
- We’re friendly with a can do attitude
- We care about our clients
- We evolve

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