Paralegal - Family (5618)

Irwin Mitchell LLP; Mar del Plata; Presencial; ARS 30.000 - 40.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A renowned law firm in Buenos Aires is seeking a Family Paralegal to join their leading team. The role involves client interactions, providing legal advice, and ensuring support for fee-earners. Ideal candidates will have family law experience and a degree. They offer extensive benefits including generous holidays and well-being initiatives.

Servicios

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Generous flexible pension schemes

Two paid volunteering days

Health membership and digital GP services

Formación

• Some previous Family paralegal experience preferred.
• Ability to work professionally and collaboratively.
• Empathy and compassion to guide clients.

Responsabilidades

• Taking instructions from clients and assisting with legal advice.
• Achieving time recording and fee income targets.
• Working closely with fee-earners in the National Team.

Conocimientos

Family paralegal experience

Professional collaboration

Empathy

Friendly demeanor

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.

Your Role and What You'll Be Doing

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.

About You

• 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

Our Values

• 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.

What We Offer

• 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.

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

Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.