Paralegal

Paralegal

Uxbridge

£ Competitive 

IBB is Heathrow’s closest major law firm and a Thames Valley heavyweight. It is a full-service firm, working for clients all over the South East of England. IBB has three offices, one in each of Uxbridge and Reading for corporate, charity, employment, IT/IP, real estate, private client and community legal services, the other in South Bucks for private clients. IBB boasts one of the region’s largest real estate teams outside of London and a corporate team working with UK headquarters of multinationals and large SMEs based in the South East. IBB handles complex work with great attention to detail and high quality client service. The firm has a clear vision to understand what our clients want and to deliver the best service possible through our legal professionals, support staff and technology. IBB’s partners are recommended in the legal directories as leading individuals in their fields and there are six accredited commercial mediators and one accredited family mediator within the firm. IBB is also ISO 9001:2000 and Lexel-accredited.

To provide a high quality legal service to clients on all aspects of general crime in line with the firm’s standard of performance within a high volume, leveraged legal aid practice.

Key Responsibilities
Providing a high quality legal service to all clients about:

• Taking instructions from clients and obtaining witness statements
• Deal with incoming telephone calls and take action on them as appropriate.
• Establish and maintain links with clients
• Preparation of bills in accordance with IBB procedures, to include collating disbursement receipts, liaising with accounts and preparing all documentation to be sent to the client in accordance with defined procedures.
• To be self-sufficient in the production of correspondence, accounts, etc. utilising relevant software packages.
• Preparing and managing cases including liaising with Clients, Counsel, Courts, Prosecution and Police officers
• Working efficiently to ensure that all background preparation on a case has been actioned in readiness for the appropriate hearing.
• Knowledge of legal aid applications, prior authority and instructing the necessary experts;
• Knowledge of money laundering regulations for the purposes of private work where legal aid is not applicable
• The ability to aid other members of the CLS1 team to ensure that certain tasks are actioned.
• The ability to manage your own work load and keep a note of relevant deadlines
• Knowledge of Criminal Law and sentencing guidelines when assisting existing and future clients on the phone and face to face.
• Knowledge of Criminal Case procedure
• Meet IBB quality/professional standards including: -

                                                                   1. Ensuring personal targets are achieved

                                                                   2.Ensuring that all team chargeable work is properly recorded on client matters

                                                                   3. Adhering to the Code of Conduct on client care and to the IBB file management policy.

Person Specification

Education

• GCSE’s or equivalent at A-C or 6-9 in Maths and English or equivalent
• Degree educated (preferably in Law) with a minimum of a 2:1
• Would consider C/FILEX qualification
• LPC and/or BVC (desirable but not essential

Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A high level of IT proficiency
• Good time management skills
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to work effectively independently or as part of a team
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Willingness to proactivity take ownership of own learning and development
• Commercial awareness

Experience

• It is essential to have relevant work experience, ideally a minimum of six months’ experience working as a Paralegal, Legal Administrator or similar