Paralegal (Private Client) in Newcastle upon Tyne

We are looking for a Paralegal to join our Private Client team in Newcastle. You will be supporting fee earners in providing a wide range of legal services and delivering an exceptional service to our clients. This role will be largely office based.

What will I be doing:

• Supporting on a wide range of Private Client matters, ensuring all required documentation is in place.
• Managing, under supervision, straightforward probate matters.
• Assisting with the preparation of Estate Accounts including undertaking bank reconciliations.
• Preparing "first draft" straightforward Wills, and deeds and documents such as Deeds of Retirement, Trustees' Minutes and Resolutions.
• Preparing and registering Lasting Powers of Attorney.
• Attending client meetings and dealing with initial inquiries from third parties.
• Undertaking Land Registry searches and legal research.

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 would be advantageous but not essential.

About us:

We are 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 are one of the UK’s Top 100 law firms. When you join us, you will 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 are 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 are committed to being a firm focused on support, development, wellbeing and inclusion and we are 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 is 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.
• 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 NTX1169491. 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.