Paralegal (Affordable Housing) in Leeds

This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in a day at 23:59 BST.

We're looking for a Paralegal to join our busy Affordable Housing team in Leeds. Your role will be to provide responsive and efficient paralegal support, assisting experienced Solicitors and fee earners working on litigation cases in our delivery of legal services to social housing clients. This is a great opportunity for someone who is highly organised with strong attention to detail, and transferable skills demonstrating an ability to handle volume litigation in a fast-paced environment.

What will I be doing:

• Assisting the in-house costs draftsman, Solicitors, Associates and Partners in defending costs only proceedings on behalf of social housing providers.
• Using precedents and own initiative to draft correspondence and standard documents.
• On-going file management/administration including updating the case management system.
• Drafting statements of costs for the team.
• Assisting in costs negotiations with opponent solicitors.
• Assisting fee earners with any other pertinent matters to the social housing team.

You’ll have:

• The ability to work independently and as part of a cross-office team.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and other IT packages.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise work to meet conflicting deadlines as well as flexibility and proactivity in supporting others within the team.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• The ability to conduct legal research.

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 strengthens 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.
• Hybrid working with a minimum requirement of 2 days per week working from one of our office locations.
• We also have a flexible benefits programme where you can purchase a wide range of additional benefits.

With flexibility and work-life balance in mind, we offer flexible working options where roles allow such as hybrid working, part-time working and job-sharing. We want you to feel your best every day and, as well as providing a supportive and inclusive environment, we provide a range of health and wellbeing benefits to help you achieve this.

The fun stuff: We have an active social calendar with plenty of opportunities to get together with your team, wider departments, and cross-office.

The Company Ward Hadaway is a full-service, UK Top 100 law firm providing exceptional legal expertise to businesses, public and third sectors, and individuals. From our offices in Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and Teesside, we combine regional strength with national influence to deliver high-quality, tailored solutions that drive success for our clients. We remove ambiguity and provide a clear direction and certainty. We build trust with each other and our clients through honest, transparent interactions.