Paralegal

FQPS Academy Ltd.; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

FQPS Academy Ltd. in Plymouth is seeking a Paralegal for its Litigation Support & Commercial Projects Team (LSC Pro). The role focuses on disclosure tasks using the latest legal technology and AI, supporting clients across matters and ensuring efficient review of documents.

To succeed, you should have a law degree or legal qualification and at least 6 months’ Paralegal or Legal Assistant experience, plus the ability to manage multiple workloads and a caseload with a case management system.

Qualifications

• Have completed your law degree or other legal qualification and/or at least 6 months experience as a Paralegal, Legal Assistant or similar role.
• Experience managing multiple workloads simultaneously.
• Experience managing your own caseload, using a case/client management system.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple workloads and coordinate legal tasks across matters.
• Take ownership of individual caseloads and progress through the matter lifecycle.
• Utilise the case management system to track documents, deadlines and communications.

Skills

Paralegal experience

Caseload management

Multi-tasking

Education

Law degree or equivalent

Tools

Case management system

Job description

The Legal Solutions Centre (LSC) part of WBD Advance is an essential part of our business made up of over 100 paralegals, project managers, technologists, data analysts and lawyers. Whether delivering one-off requirements or on-going services, WBD Advance streamlines legal work and tackles complex business issues by delivering high-quality, cost-effective solutions. The team handles everything from large volume projects and services, automation and process design, project and risk management, to knowledge and data management.

Our dedicated Paralegal Team are now on the lookout for a Paralegal to join their Litigation Support & Commercial Projects Team (or as we call it, LSC Pro) in our Plymouth office.

This team specialise predominately in disclosure tasks using the latest legal technology and AI. You'd work on range of matters including dealing with strategic resolution of litigated consumer claims brought against our clients. The team are also regularly engaged to conduct a first line review of documents for other purposes.

So what are we looking for?

To be successful in this role you'll need as a minimum:

• Have completed your law degree or other legal qualification and/or at least 6 months experience as a Paralegal, Legal Assistant or similar role.
• Experience managing multiple workloads simultaneously.
• Experience managing your own caseload, using case/client management system

What makes it great to work here?

We continually work hard to create an open culture that sets us apart from other firms. Our culture gives us much more of a human feel and has helped us earn the Great Place to Work® certification in the UK, based entirely on feedback from our people. Recognising our commitment to creating a high-trust workplace where people feel valued, supported and empowered to succeed.

As signatories to the Mindful Business Charter, it's important to us that our people are able to maintain healthy and happy lives, both in and out of work. We have a number of resources and initiatives designed to support health and wellbeing and we're very happy to talk flexible working.

Through our DEI initiatives we create an environment in which difference is valued. We have an Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team, and an Inclusive Recruitment Lead, who all work with our colleague networks (we currently have firm supported networks for race, ethnicity, and cultural heritage, LGBTQ+, disabilities, neurodiversity, families, and women's career development and we're in constant dialogue with our people about how we expand our networks to better support everybody). Find out more about DEI at WBD here. We encourage applicants from all social backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, gender identities and sexual orientations.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long term condition and need us to make any adjustments to give you the best possible recruitment process, please let us know by contacting the recruiter on the right hand side of this page. Please also let us know if you need this job advert or the application form in a different format.

We will offer an interview to candidates with a disability or long-term condition who meet the minimum criteria for this role. You can opt into this scheme within the application form. Your response to this question is only used for this purpose, is only visible to the recruitment team and is not used for data monitoring.

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