Litigation Paralegal

Job Title: Litigation Paralegal

Location: Central London

Salary: £40,000 + Good Benefits and Fantastic Culture

Prestigious London law firm are looking for an experienced commercial litigation and arbitration paralegal to join their team on a permanent basis and provide case management support including deposition and trial preparation, and document collation and production. A small selection of duties are outlined below:

Duties:

• Undertaking legal research to include preparing chronologies of events and preparing summaries
• Liaising with Counsel
• Assisting attorneys in the preparation of witness statements
• Coordinating, preparing for and attending trials arbitrations and mediations
• Preparing and filing statement of case, court bundles and other submissions and documents in adjudication, litigation, arbitration, and other proceedings
• Summarising testimony
• Assisting with the administration of matters including preparing client care letter, time recording and the engagement of third parties such as Counsel and expert witnesses
• Checking and proofreading legal documents
• Organising and maintaining client files such as pleadings correspondence and memoranda

It is essential that you have experience (at least 12 months) as a paralegal working in either commercial litigation or international arbitration. You must also have very strong client skills as the role will include extensive liaison with clients and external stakeholders. 

Exceptional opportunity to gain further quality experience on a major, high profile case working for a team of renowned, well known partners in this field. Excellent long term prospects. Very friendly, fun team and the firm has a reputation for really looking after their staff.

McKinlay Law endeavour to contact all successful candidates within 24 hours. However, due to the volume of applications that we receive, we are not able to respond to every candidate individually. If you have not heard from us within 24 hours your application has been unsuccessful and we have not retained your details.