Paralegal
The Role: Paralegal
Salary: £27,000
Contract: 12- month fixed term contract
Main Requirement: At least 1 years’ experience being a paralegal. Ideally an LPC Graduate with excellent results in all areas of their academic life.
Our client is looking for a bright, enthusiastic and pro-active Paralegal to join their team.
Duties and responsibilitiesAssisting with legal tasks including:
- Preparing first drafts of legal documents (e.g. deeds, contracts, balance of powers etc)
- Legal research
- Phone calls to courts / HMRC / other bodies to clarify legal and administrative issues
- Dealing with deed formalities
- Preparing letters and emails to clients
- Production of consolidated working copies of Trust documents following deeds of amendment
- Creation and maintenance of transaction bibles
- Undertaking company searches using the Companies House website
- Proof reading documents and checking cross references etc (e.g. Trust Deed and Rules)
- Drafting letters for submission to The Pension Regulator (TPR)
- Assisting with litigation projects including preparation of Court bundles etc
- Providing support to Know–how unit
- Producing the fortnightly Dispute Resolution Bundle
- Incorporating trustee companies
- Filing documents at court
- Preparing invoices.
- Monitoring time recorded against fee estimates, sending internal flags and updating fee estimates.
- Circulating client specific work schedules for update by lawyers.
Other tasks including:
- Day to day administrative tasks as and when requested to include photocopying, file searches etc.
- Delivering documents or obtaining signatures on documentation.
- New client administration (e.g. money laundering checks etc).
- Document review of archived files
- Any other reasonable tasks which fall within the general remit of the role.
Candidate Requirements:
- Strong re-search, analysis and online search skills
- Can work independently and in a team environment
- Excellent organisational skills
- Has strong numeracy skills and can work with spreadsheets
- Reliable and punctual
- Can develop and maintain effective relationships with internal and external clients