Paralegal in Leeds

Overview

We are looking for paralegals to join our team. As part of a group of over 20 paralegals, you will provide essential support to fee-earning departments. You will benefit from group training, team-building days, and regular social activities.

Our paralegals have a dedicated manager who offers personalised support to aid your development. This includes regular one-to-one check-ins and appraisals, tailored development plans, and full access to a suite of reporting tools. You will also receive tailored learning and development support from our in-house team, with access to courses that meet your training needs and requests.

You will be assigned to a legal department that offers fantastic growth opportunities, including access to quality work, client secondments, off-site meetings, and more. There will be opportunities to work with multiple departments, giving you exposure to different types of legal work and new tasks.

As a paralegal, you will:

• Handle your own caseload of files (where appropriate) from instruction, to issuing proceedings and enforcement and under the supervision of a more senior fee earner.
• Undertake certain elements of fee earning work under supervision. In particular:
  • creation of first draft client documentation;
  • generation of suitable client care correspondence;
  • maintaining key client relationships;
  • drafting of petition/court documentation;
  • attendance at routine meetings/hearings plus minute taking responsibilities.
• Deal wherever possible with routine client enquiries and communications.
• General administrative tasks to support fee earners including monthly reporting on cases for client purposes and invoicing of files.
• Deputise for fee earners in their absence if necessary, passing urgent issues to another senior fee earner for guidance.
• Use the telephone to allow for quick response answers/client chasers.
• Provide support to other fee earners in various departments as and when required.

We are looking for:

• Law Degree or Law Conversion qualification is prefer preferred but not essential.
• Previous Paralegal experience is preferred but not essential – training is provided.
• You will be a committed team player who is able to work across multi departments.
• Be able to communicate confidently both verbally and written with senior team members.
• Have sufficient IT knowledge of Microsoft programmes, with a particular focus on Excel.
• Be able to quickly identify clients' needs and always provide excellent service.
• Effectively prioritise tasks based on importance and urgency.
• Act positively towards change and actively contribute to the delivery of departmental goals.
• Show enthusiasm and resilience even when in demanding situations to overcome challenges.
• Build strong working relationships with colleagues across multi departments.

We have hybrid working options at Walker Morris; however, a commitment to office-based working is beneficial in this role to enable you to provide a complete service to clients.

Some of our benefits include:

• Competitive salary and annual performance-based bonus scheme.
• Minimum of 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays per year increasing to 31 days with length of service, with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday per year.
• Auto enrolled into the workplace pension scheme, and we'll contribute a minimum of 6% of your salary.
• 4x your annual salary in the event of a death in service.
• Hybrid and flexible working for most roles with a minimum of 60% of your time spent in the office.

Find out more about working at Walker Morris here.

Type of Working

Hybrid

Walker Morris is committed to being an inclusive employer. Our aim is to ensure our workforce represents our diverse society. We recognise that everyone brings their own unique capabilities and experiences to their work. We welcome applications regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, neuro diversity or disability status, family or parental status, race, religion or ethnicity.

We take great pride in being a Disability Confident Employer. If you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to ask.