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Paralegal (Personal Injury, Leeds)

4 months ago

Leeds UK, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom Stewarts Full time

Our team includes some of the UK’s leading personal injury lawyers, with a reputation for innovative and ground-breaking litigation. We have been ranked No.1 in The Legal 500 and Chambers for the past 15 years. Unlike other law firms, we only act for clients who have sustained serious life-changing injury, in particular spinal cord injury and brain injury. Our legal expertise and willingness to push boundaries has enabled our clients to win record-breaking compensation awards.



Standard Paralegal Duties:

  • Produces correspondence
  • Undertakes legal research
  • Taking statements from clients and witnesses
  • Assisting in the preparation of instructions to counsel
  • Prepares schedules of documents
  • Proof reading, marking up and amending pleadings
  • Making searches
  • Preparing draft orders
  • Maintains cost files, claims and pays disbursements
  • Assists in the preparation of 6 monthly cost letters
  • General administration, including filing, supporting internal processes and supporting the team’s partners, including message taking, diary arrangements, travel planning and supporting business development activities
  • Contributes to department activities, such as business development initiatives (e.g., drafting articles/presentations) and internal know-how/training sessions
  • Undertakes other ad hoc duties as required by the team



Job Skills Required:

  • Essential: must have fully completed either the LPC, SQE1 or bar course and have received final result.
  • Essential: must have achieved at least a 2:1 at undergraduate level
  • Excellent typing and IT skills, including good working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook)
  • Business Development and Financial skills:
  • Understands client needs and displays an appropriate sense of urgency
  • Demonstrates general commercial awareness and vision, helps to build client relationships through pursuing own business development/marketing initiatives
  • Assists with and/or attends social, fund-raising or training activities
  • Represents the firm appropriately, develops own professional network and raises personal and firm profile
  • Records time effectively, achieves/exceed hours targets



Knowledge-Sharing Skills:

  • Makes use of the firm’s collective knowledge resources, promotes internal knowledge-sharing
  • Attends and contributes towards know-how or team meetings



General Skills:

  • Well organised, uses initiative, prioritises appropriately, applies self, shows attention to detail, manages own workload and meets deadlines
  • Demonstrates excellent communication and interpersonal skills (respectful, positive, articulate, professional and sympathetic)
  • Delivers helpful internal services with a “can do” approach, shows commercial awareness and represents the department/firm appropriately
  • Shares information and ideas
  • Accepts and follows instructions, listens, makes notes, questions appropriately, co-operates
  • Shows sound judgement and decision-making skills; acts within boundaries
  • Shows commitment, passion and enthusiasm
  • Is a respectful, reliable and supportive team player
  • Respects the firm’s working environment and culture