Paralegals

Location: Birmingham

Working arrangement: Full-time, on-site

Vacancy: One position

Company Description

Spencer West Partnership Ltd is a legal consultancy company providing services to Spencer West LLP, a global law firm. Our Birmingham-based immigration practice provides comprehensive UK immigration services to businesses and individuals. Our work covers business immigration, sponsor licensing and compliance, personal and family immigration, settlement, nationality, asylum and human rights matters. We are committed to delivering accurate, practical and client-focused advice in a professional and supportive working environment.

Role Description

We are seeking a capable, highly organised and responsible paralegal to support our UK immigration practice. The successful candidate will work closely with a senior immigration solicitor and assist with matters from initial instruction through to submission and completion. This position may suit a fresh law graduate who has a genuine interest in UK immigration law and is prepared to develop specialist knowledge through practical experience, close supervision and direct training.

Key Responsibilities

• Assisting the senior immigration solicitor with business and personal immigration matters under supervision.
• Preparing immigration application forms, supporting-document checklists, document schedules and application bundles.
• Drafting client correspondence, attendance notes, statements, representations and other legal documents.
• Reviewing identity, financial, employment, relationship and immigration documents for accuracy, completeness and consistency.
• Conducting legal and factual research using legislation, the Immigration Rules, Home Office guidance and relevant case law.
• Maintaining complete and accurate electronic client files, including consistent naming, filing and version control of documents.
• Safely receiving, recording, organising, storing and returning clients’ original physical documents.
• Taking day-to-day ownership of allocated files, monitoring their progress and accepting responsibility for ensuring that required work is completed accurately and on time.
• Maintaining clear task lists, identifying outstanding evidence and proactively following up with clients and third parties.
• Monitoring all case deadlines, appointments, visa-expiry dates and procedural requirements.
• Liaising professionally with clients, the Home Office, counsel and other relevant third parties.
• Arranging client appointments and assisting with the collection, review and verification of supporting evidence.
• Providing clients with clear progress updates under the supervision of the senior immigration solicitor.
• Assisting with sponsor licence, compliance and right-to-work matters where required.
• Supporting the preparation of asylum, human rights and further-submissions cases where appropriate.
• Using approved artificial-intelligence tools responsibly to assist with research, document review, case preparation and drafting.
• Independently checking every AI-assisted output against the source documents and authoritative legal materials, applying a zero-tolerance approach to hallucinations, invented facts, inaccurate citations and unverified legal propositions.
• Maintaining confidentiality and complying with applicable professional, regulatory and data-protection requirements.
• Contributing ideas to improve the efficiency, organisation and quality of the immigration practice.

Essential Skills and Attributes

• A genuine and demonstrable interest in developing specialist expertise in UK immigration law.
• A strong sense of case ownership and a willingness to accept day-to-day responsibility for allocated files.
• A proactive approach to progressing cases, following up outstanding matters and anticipating the next required steps.
• Strong written English and the ability to develop clear, accurate and professional legal drafting skills.
• Excellent attention to detail, particularly when checking names, dates, immigration histories, application forms and supporting evidence.
• Strong organisational and time-management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
• Professional and confident communication with clients from a wide range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
• Good legal and factual research skills.
• Competence in Microsoft Office and confidence in learning electronic case-management and document-management systems.
• Either existing confidence in using AI-assisted tools or a genuine willingness to learn how to use them responsibly in legal casework.
• An understanding that AI output must never be accepted at face value and that all AI-assisted work must be independently verified against the case evidence and authoritative legal sources.
• Ability to work independently when appropriate while following supervision and escalating uncertainties or risks promptly.
• A dependable, professional and client-focused approach.
• Sensitivity when assisting vulnerable clients or dealing with confidential and distressing information.

Desirable Qualifications and Experience

• Previous immigration experience is not essential. Applications from fresh law graduates are welcomed.
• The following would be advantageous: A law degree, postgraduate legal qualification or recognised paralegal qualification.
• Experience gained through a legal clinic, internship, work placement, volunteering or university pro bono project.
• Administrative, customer-service or office experience demonstrating responsibility for documents, records, deadlines or individual matters.
• Evidence of taking ownership of projects or assignments and seeing them through to completion.
• Experience preparing, reviewing or proofreading formal documents.
• Familiarity with legal research databases, document-management systems or AI-assisted research and drafting tools.
• Experience handling confidential information and maintaining organised electronic or physical records.
• Exposure to immigration, asylum, human rights or nationality law through academic study or practical experience.
• Additional language skills, particularly Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Malay or Indonesian, would be advantageous but are not essential.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to gain direct experience across a broad range of business and personal UK immigration matters.
• Close supervision and direct practical training from a senior immigration solicitor.
• Structured development of legal research, drafting, case-management and client-care skills.
• Practical training in the responsible and accurate use of AI-assisted tools in legal work.
• A collaborative and supportive working environment.
• Increasing responsibility and case ownership as competence and experience develop.
• The opportunity to contribute ideas and grow with a developing immigration practice.