Paralegal - Family (5618)

Irwin Mitchell; Mar del Plata; Presencial; ARS 6.500.000 - 9.750.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading national law firm is seeking a Family Legal Assistant in Buenos Aires to support clients during challenging personal circumstances. The role requires strong relationship-building skills, adaptability in a fast-paced environment, and the ability to assist with legal advice. Applicants should have an undergraduate degree and ideally some paralegal experience. The firm provides a supportive team environment and opportunities for professional development.

Servicios

25 days holidays plus bank holidays

Flexible pension schemes

Volunteering days

Formación

• Empathy and compassion to guide clients through personal circumstances.
• Ability to work professionally and collaboratively.
• Experience as a Family paralegal would be beneficial.

Responsabilidades

• Take instructions from clients and assist with legal advice.
• Achieve time recording and fee income targets.
• Work closely with fee-earners across the National Team.

Conocimientos

Client relationship building

Legal advice assistance

Professional collaboration

Empathy and compassion

Fast-paced adaptability

Educación

Undergraduate degree or equivalent

Descripción del empleo

We’re a national law firm with a local reach. Our legal experts are here for you. Whether it’s personal or business, we understand that everyone’s situation is different. But we’re more than just a law firm – we’re a team of people working together to help individuals and businesses navigate life’s ups and downs.

Working here you’ll feel a part of our friendly and inclusive environment. We’ll value you for who you are and what you bring. We support each other and push boundaries to achieve incredible things and make a real difference to our clients and communities.

We're always looking to support our colleagues to work in a way that works best for them and everyone else, including our clients, the business and the regulators. Please speak to a member of our Recruitment and Onboarding team for more information.

Our Team

The Family team are one of the UK's leading family law teams, accredited by independent legal guides Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500, with decades of experience dealing with a range of family issues. The Family team is ranked as Tier 1 and handle a number of interesting and challenging cases from high court judgements for high net worth and high profile clients to dealing with the financial aspects on relationship breakdown.

Your Role

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 relationships 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.

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 fee-earners across the National Team to make sure they have the right support at all times
• Ideally, some previous Family paralegal experience
• Ideally 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.

Benefits

• 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.

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.

Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.