Paralegal

FQPS Academy Ltd.; Wetherby; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

FQPS Academy Ltd. is seeking a proactive legal professional to support our lawyers in delivering high-quality, targeted legal advice across practice areas. You will draft initial documents and advise clients when the designated lawyer is unavailable.

The role also involves spotting opportunities to grow Alpaca brands and enhance client businesses, contributing to a fast-paced, collaborative team environment.

Qualifications

• Be a credible member of the team, providing support, clarity and insights from your area of specialism.
• Undertake all tasks associated with the role to a consistently high standard.
• Work in a fast-paced 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.
• 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.
• Check it against the SRA’s questions in two minutes. If there is no COLP or solicitor where you work, the SRA lets a solicitor outside confirm it: an FQPS solicitor can, from £149.

Responsibilities

• Support our lawyers to provide high quality, targeted and accessible legal advice across respective practice areas.
• Produce first draft documents where required and provide advice to clients in the absence of the relevant lawyer.
• Seek opportunities to build the Alpaca brands and identify opportunities to enhance the businesses of Alpaca and Alt Legal clients.

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)

Will this role count as your QWE, and who will confirm it?

Check it against the SRA’s questions in two minutes. If there is no COLP or solicitor where you work, the SRA lets a solicitor outside confirm it: an FQPS solicitor can, from £149.