Paralegal in Birmingham

We're looking for a Paralegal to join our growing Regulatory, Compliance, and Investigations (RCI) team in Birmingham. This is a great opportunity to work alongside and support our RCI Partners while gaining exposure to key stakeholders and regulators. Our RCI team is part of the Commercial Department at Ward Hadaway, and we advise clients across all sectors including health, public sector, corporations and individuals. The team provides advisory services on economic crime compliance, regulatory issues (such as Health and Safety), and the investigation and defence of clients across all sectors that Ward Hadaway operates in. This is predominantly a support role and regular attendance at court may be required.

What will I be doing

• Supporting the RCI team in the provision of advice to clients, assisting with a caseload of complex cases on contentious and non-contentious matters.
• Supporting the business development activities of the RCI team, including writing articles and blogs, and helping with presentations and seminars.
• Supporting the Team's work in health & safety, inquests, environment, food and fire regulations, both in Birmingham and nationally.
• Developing an understanding of regulatory law and practice.
• Assisting with the management of a case load of files.
• Assisting with case preparation, evidence handling and trial support.
• Attending client conferences, taking witness statements, attending Court instructing experts.
• Attending administrative applications and hearings at court, including travel, and accompanying counsel where necessary.

You'll have

• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Proficiency in MS Office and good all-round IT skills.
• The ability to prioritise, work to tight deadlines, and manage your time effectively.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and customer service skills.
• The ability to adapt your style, be proactive, and effectively solve problems.
• Previous legal work experience within inquests, criminal defence or criminal practice and process would be advantageous but not essential.

About us

We're proud to be an independent, full-service law firm providing exceptional legal expertise to businesses, the built environment, healthcare, the public and third sectors, and private individuals. With several office locations around the UK we're one of the UK's Top 100 law firms. When you join us you’ll be part of a team of over 500 passionate and talented individuals who take pride in offering an exciting and supportive environment allowing you to thrive.

We're passionate about promoting wellbeing and equality, diversity and inclusion, with dedicated committees to support ongoing efforts. We recognise that a healthy and thriving Firm filled with individuality and differences strengthen our teams, our clients and our communities.

What we can offer you

We’re committed to being a firm focused on support, development, wellbeing and inclusion and we’re always striving to improve. Our commitment to this has been recognised by our achievement of our Gold Investors in People award and by our Hive HR Employee Voice certification.

We reward our people with a whole range of benefits, some core and some flexible, designed to shape a reward package that’s right for you – now and in the future. Our core benefits include:

• An enhanced pension scheme with employer matched contributions of up to 6%.
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays (increasing to 28 days with length of service). There is also the option to purchase up to 5 additional days.
• Life assurance cover of 4 times basic salary, with the option to purchase additional cover.
• A range of health and wellbeing benefits.
• We also have a flexible benefits programme where you can purchase a wide range of additional benefits.

If you would like to request further information or to discuss the role, please contact people@wardhadaway.com quoting vacancy reference NTX1199878. If you require any adjustments to be made to our recruitment process, please request a call back via the above email address.

Agencies - please note that we are not currently instructing agents to support with this role. Please do not send speculative CVs.