Senior Paralegal, Construction and Projects in Birmingham

Vario is a market leading alternative legal services provider within the law firm, Pinsent Masons. Vario is a practice group within Pinsent Masons which incorporates Flexible Services, Consulting and Technology, Legal Project Management and Managed Legal Services (MLS). Our Centre of Excellence team sits within our MLS team and brings together a range of paralegal skills and capabilities, which provides a variety of services to our practice groups and clients. We are recruiting a Senior Paralegal to support our Construction and Projects team. The Projects team specialises in Construction, Energy and Infrastructure and Project Finance. Our paralegals support the Projects team and clients nationally, working on matters furthering the development of a variety of key infrastructure projects. We envision this to be a vital role in strengthening the Centre of Excellence’s support to the Projects practice group.

Responsibilities

• Preparing, reviewing and negotiating construction documents including building contracts (SBCC, JCT and NEC forms), consultant appointments, collateral warranties, novations, deeds of assignment and notices of assignment
• Reviewing construction documentation to prepare due diligence reports
• Day-to-day matter management
• Arranging and managing execution of documents (in hard copy and/or using DocuSign)
• Conducting legal research
• Data room management including uploading documents, redactions, and project management
• Management of documents including sorting, reviewing, categorising, redacting, bundling, indexing, uploading and filing
• Other ad‑hoc tasks and responsibilities as dictated by the business and client needs
• Acting as a role model for the Centre of Excellence in interactions with stakeholders, being confident in flagging spare capacity to fee earners, and proactively networking with the Practice group to identify areas where paralegals can assist
• Supporting the Delivery Manager with quality checking the work of more junior paralegals
• Playing an active role in the wider team by participating in team meetings/discussions and supporting the Delivery Manager with supervision of more junior members of the team

Our standard working hours are 9.00am-5.00pm, however, we are happy to consider flexible working requests.

Candidate Overview

• Previous experience working as a Paralegal within a Construction team
• Exposure to Infrastructure, Real Estate, and/or Energy sectors would be highly desirable
• Experience of working within a commercial law firm, understanding of the levels of service delivery required and building relationships with lawyers

What can we offer you?

• Agile working (the opportunity to work from home, subject to diary commitments)
• Carers’ leave (up to five paid days’ leave towards caring responsibilities)
• 25 days’ annual leave entitlement and the opportunity to purchase or roll over 5 days
• Contributory pension of up to 5%
• Private healthcare policy
• Death in service cover (4 x base salary)
• Eligibility to apply for an interest free season ticket loan, an interest free gym membership loan and/or an interest free rental deposit loan
• Cycle to work scheme

What happens next?

Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email. We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.

Our strength lies in our differences. We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a founding member of the Mindful Business Charter, signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It’s with different perspectives that we’ll find solutions to our clients’ most complex challenges. It’s how we’ll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow.

We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents. Our in‑house recruiter, Victoria Greaves, would be happy to have an informal chat about this role, provide this job advert or our application form in an alternative format, and/or discuss any reasonable adjustments to be made either during the recruitment process or after offer stage. You can contact Victoria by emailing careers@pinsentmasons.com.