Litigation Paralegal

Description

Employees are responsible for ensuring they fully understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and particularly where there are legal requirements, employees are responsible for understanding those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.

The main purpose of this full-time position is to provide assistance to the Principal Solicitor and Legal Team in the undertaking of legal matters in the cable damage litigations department. All matters dealt with are on the instruction and under the supervision of Principal Solicitor.

Managers and supervisors carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of their employees, those under their control, and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations. This includes briefing individuals working for them and ensuring there is the necessary understanding, competence and application of requirements to work safely and without harming the environment.

• Maintaining digital case files during life of matters.
• Preparing witness statements for court proceedings, including, where necessary, attending witness interview and taking notes of interview.
• Managing a case load of third party damage claims and theft in conveyance claims, ranging from small claims multi-track matters under supervision of the Principal Solicitor.
• Preparation of court hearing bundles for court proceedings. Including drafting index and filing the bundle at court and serving them on other parties.
• Assisting Principal Solicitor with claims against the Company.
• Instructing and working alongside counsel on matters.
• Managing a court diary by inputting court deadline dates into litigation and relevant case handler diaries.
• Manage the pre-action process of a claim including formal pre-action correspondence, evidence gathering and communicating with opponents.
• Preparation of court proceedings in relation to damage claims including drafting particulars of claim, calculating relevant interest amount and period, raising court issue fee and lodging papers online. If appropriate, dealing with entry of judgement and registration of county court judgement with the high court including any relevant debtor letters.

Requirements

Indicative Legal tasks

• A pro-active approach is essential;
• Law Graduate with at least a 2:1 Honours Degree.
• A high level of organisation, influencing and communication skills is essential;
• This post requires someone with experience of taking responsibility for, planning and executing a range of legal matters using independent judgement and communication skills under solicitor supervision;
• The person appointed will enjoy working as a team player, be effective at working on their own initiative and be used to meeting strict deadlines and prioritising workloads;
• The person appointed should have a cheerful disposition and be able to deal constructively with demanding clients from across the business.
• IT Skills: Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, SAP and advanced in Microsoft Word. Extracting information from the internet with confidence and speed is also essential in this role;
• A BTC qualification or experience of claims handling are desirable.

Benefits

Salary approx. £38,000.

• Normal working hours are 09:00 to 17:30 with an hour for lunch

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance