Paralegal Assistant Team Leader, Disputes - Leeds or Manchester

Addleshaw Goddard LLP; Leeds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Addleshaw Goddard LLP is seeking an Assistant Team Leader to manage and develop Paralegals and Legal Apprentices within the Disputes sub-team of the Transaction Services Team. The role covers work allocation, coaching, and cross-office collaboration, with base in Leeds or Manchester and occasional travel.

You will lead a motivated group, drive performance, and help shape an end-to-end training programme. A strong emphasis on teamwork, flexibility and client-focused delivery is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in disputes or supervision/people management.
• Strong coaching and feedback abilities to develop staff.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Allocating work within the Disputes sub-team and ensuring tasks are resourced appropriately.
• Line management of Legal Apprentices, Paralegals and Senior Paralegals, with regular coaching and development checks.
• Contributing to team growth by engaging with fee earners and partners to promote opportunities and develop training.
• Support the Team Leader and Senior Manager, assist in recruitment, run team meetings and coordinate training.

Skills

Disputes experience

People management

Team leadership

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Workload management

Job description

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The Assistant Team Leader provides comprehensive operational support to activity in the Transaction Services Team, working closely with the Team Leader and Senior Manager in our Disputes sub-team to help manage the continued development and performance of Paralegals and Legal Apprentices. The Assistant Team Leader role has a focus on the Disputes sub-team but will also have some wider responsibilities within the TST. This role can be based in Leeds or Manchester, with occasional travel to the other UK offices, as required.

THE TEAM

Launched in 2010,our well-established, high performing and busy Transaction Services Team (TST) help Addleshaw Goddard deliver a world class service to its clients. We were the first team of its kind in the UK and continue to innovate by delivering work in the most efficient way, saving our clients time and money, with our team being made up of Apprentices, Paralegals, Managers and Solicitors.

Our Paralegals and Apprentices focus on tasks that are found in a wide variety of legal assignments, but which do not necessarily need to be done by qualified lawyers, including process elements of transactional, advisory and contentious work. We use technology to deliver our work, which plays a key role in enabling Addleshaw Goddard to respond to client demand for more innovative and better value services. Innovation is key to how the Firm has evolved and adapted, and we aim to adopt a growth mindset in approaching tasks

Aside from a competitive salary and flexible benefits package, we have a focus on continuous development and progression, having created a career development framework and training programme specifically for the managers in the TST. As part of that framework, you'll have the opportunity to have a career conversation every 6 months to ensure we're supporting you to meet your development goals and to discuss your progression.

DUTIES

Work Allocation

• Taking instructions from internal clients, ensuring requirements are understood and allocating appropriate resource within the Disputes sub-team
• Having primary responsibility for work allocation amongst, and the delivery of work by, their subteam
• Ensuring that work is delivered effectively and efficiently
• Implementing and carrying out quality assurance checks on tasks undertaken by the sub-team

Line Management

• Leading an identified team of Legal Apprentices, Paralegals and Senior Paralegals from across the Disputes sub-team.
• Providing coaching and regular feedback, and carrying out regular check ins to develop, encourage and motivate those individuals
• Taking responsibility for individual paralegal and team development plans
• Working with the TST Leadership Team to provide a consistent approach to performance management and to ensure the resourcing needs of the whole team are considered

Team Growth

• Engaging with relevant fee earners and partners across the Firm to promote the TST and proactively identifying and promoting new business opportunities
• Working with Lawyers, Paralegals and Apprentices to identify work for the sub-team
• Proactively promoting new business opportunities to internal and external clients
• Contributing to the development of the sub-team and the wider TST, including assisting with the development of an end to end training programme for the Disputes sub-team

Supporting the Team Leader and Senior Manager

• Assisting in the recruitment process
• Supporting with running team meetings
• Delivering ad hoc training and helping to coordinate the Disputes sub-team training plan
• Deputising for the Team Leader and, when necessary, the Senior Manager

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED (BESPOKE TO ROLE)

Applicants must have experience in at least one of the below areas:

• Disputes legal work, or
• Supervision or people management.
• Experience of defining work processes and "best practice" approaches is desirable but not essential.
• The skills to manage and motivate a team of high performing individuals.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• A clear ability to manage complex and changing workloads flexibly and efficiently.
• A strong team orientation.
• An ability to juggle multiple tasks whilst maintaining a high attention to detail at all times

OUR FIRM

Our story of international growth is built on a performance mindset, innovation and true collaboration. We believe results follow relationships, so we work closely with each other, and develop deep client connections to deliver.

Our award-winning culture balances high standards and hard work with genuine care – looking out for each other, supporting professional development, in a down to earth and inclusive environment. We do the right things in the right ways, combining commercial excellence and innovative thinking with teamwork. Together, we deliver excellence, achieve stand out solutions, and enable career-defining opportunities!