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Paralegal - Family

Irwin MitchellNewcastle

6 days ago

Job type

Full-time

Job description

Your Role

and What You'll Be Doing

If you enjoy being part of a successful, friendly and high-performing team, then this is the job for you. You’ll be a key point of contact for our clients, many of whom are going through challenging personal circumstances. This is a busy and fast-paced role, so you’ll need to be able to work quickly and accurately, building strong relationship with your team and our clients. There’s lots of room for progression and we’d really like to support you in your professional development. We have a dedicated national team located in several of our offices.

Some things you might be doing :

Taking instructions from clients and assisting with giving legal advice, including obtaining evidence and, where appropriate, finding appropriate resolutions for the clients
Achieving time recording and fee income targets to ensure profitable working.
Working closely with the team’s Associates and Partners to make sure they have the right support at all times

About You

Ideally, some previous Family paralegal experience

hold an undergraduate degree or equivalent.

Ability to work professionally and collaboratively.

Empathy and compassion to help guide our clients through challenging personal circumstances.

A friendly, enthusiastic, and can-do approach

We’re proud of our values, and we’re looking for people who share them :

To be pioneering with an imaginative outlook

To be approachable and caring

To be tenacious in the pursuit of our objectives

To be efficient in the provision of our services

To work with a foundation of integrity.

If this sounds like you, we’d love to receive your application.

Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You

25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.

Generous and flexible pension schemes.

Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)

Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.

We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.

We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!

Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.

Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands : Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.

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Family Paralegal • Newcastle