Paralegal

Alt-Legal; Wetherby; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Alt Legal Limited in the United Kingdom is seeking a proactive legal support professional to assist lawyers across practice areas. You will produce first draft documents and provide advice to clients when the relevant lawyer is unavailable, working with autonomy within the defined role.

You will identify issues, propose practical solutions, and help the team deliver high quality legal and commercial outcomes.

Qualifications

• Strong ability to work independently within defined parameters.
• Ability to produce first draft documents and provide client advice in absence of the lawyer.
• Excellent written and verbal communication across teams and clients.

Responsibilities

• Produce first draft documents as required.
• Provide client advice in the absence of the relevant lawyer.
• Identify issues and resolve them by looking beyond the task scope.
• Support lawyers to deliver high quality legal and commercial solutions.

Skills

Autonomy

Proactivity

Team collaboration

Communication skills

Problem solving

Job description

You will support our lawyers to provide high quality, targeted and accessible legal advice across their specific practice area(s) and will work as part of a team to deliver effective solutions to legal and commercial issues. You will be responsible for producing first draft documents where required as well as providing advice to clients in the absence of the relevant lawyer. You will need to be technically proficient in your area(s) of legal specialism and able to work with a degree of autonomy within the parameters of your role. You will seek opportunities to build the Alpaca brands as well as identify opportunities to enhance the businesses of Alpaca and Alt Legal clients.

We don’t like to have to spell this out, but you really need to have the ability to:

• be a credible member of the team, providing support, clarity and insights and updates from your area of specialism
• undertake all tasks associated with role to a consistently high standard
• work in a fastpaced environment with little day to day direction
• be self-sufficient and pro-active
• identify issues and resolve them by looking outside the parameters of the role or task, seeking input from others in the team. We don’t do Silos!
• challenge where appropriate rather than “accept” the norm
• communicate appropriately within the team
• understand and communicate the commercial impact of the decisions you make when providing advice to our clients
• handle large volumes of work with multiple demands
• quickly understand our client requirements and respond accordingly in terms of support, advice and solutions
• handle multiple tasks within the framework of the role
• delegate tasks within the framework of the role

The behaviours we want to see are:

• you embrace chaos; being open to new challenges, new opportunities to learn, to evolve, to change and to grow
• you build positive relationships internally and externally
• you work with the team and take responsibility for your delivery
• you are willing to use your skills to work with colleagues on projects outside of your traditional practice area
• you practice and accept radical candour
• you put yourself forward for new challenges
• you balance equally internal and external work
• you love working with and on the unexpected (chaos)