Paralegal - Court of Protection

Hugh James; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK law firm is seeking a dedicated Paralegal to join its Court of Protection team in Cardiff. This role involves assisting with court applications and liaising with clients, professionals, and departments to manage financial and welfare decisions for individuals needing support. Ideal candidates will be law graduates with strong interpersonal skills and an organisational mindset. The position offers a competitive benefits package including generous holidays and hybrid working arrangements.

Benefits

Minimum of 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Two Corporate Social Responsibility days

Birthday day off

Death in service equivalent to twice annual salary

Auto enrolment pension scheme

Hybrid working

Employee Assistance Programme

Discounts for local businesses

Professional fees paid

Employee recruitment incentive scheme

Qualifications

• Communication with clients via telephone and in person.
• Expected to travel to meet clients and families.

Responsibilities

• Assist with court of protection applications.
• Liaise with clients and other departments.
• Handle financial planning and assessments.
• Instruct and liaise with professionals.
• Coordinate care and maintenance organisations.
• Communicate effectively with clients and families.
• Assist in running trusts and supporting trustees.

Skills

Excellent interpersonal skills

Good telephone manner

Organised

Team player

Education

Law degree or similar academic achievement

Job description

Basis: Full time

Job category/type: Paralegal

Date posted: 28/11/2025

Job reference: HJ0412

This vacancy is open to direct applications only, no approaches via recruitment agencies will be accepted at this time.

Background

We currently have an opportunity for a Paralegal to join our Court of Protection team. The Court of Protection team is a specialist unit dedicated to dealing with the management of the property and financial affairs together with health and welfare decisions of people who lack the ability to deal with these themselves.

Our Court of Protection deputy works closely with families and carers to ensure that the pressures and additional stresses of looking after the individuals personal finances are removed. We ensure that contact and liaison is maintained, and decisions taken by us are understood.

The Role Duties Will Include

• Assisting with court of protection applications
• Liaising with the client and other departments within the firm in relation to conveyancing, employment, private client, and family matters
• Dealing with financial aspects of individuals lives, ensuring appropriate financial planning and assessments is undertaken.
• Instructing and liaising with professionals including Case Managers and Therapy Staff
• Arranging for care, facilities and maintenance organisations to visit the client
• Communicate effectively with clients, their families and healthcare professionals
• Assisting in the running of the trusts and supporting the trustees in decisions made for the beneficiaries.

Skills and Qualifications

The role will involve communication with clients via the telephone and in person; therefore, excellent interpersonal skills are essential along with a good telephone manner. You might be expected to travel to meet clients and their families.

The successful candidate will be organised, responsible and a good team player.

This role would ideally suit law graduates or similar academic achievements.

Life at Hugh James

We never shy away from a challenge. We are a leading, full-service UK law firm. Since our beginning, we have been led by the things that matter. We care about fighting for the right outcomes. Solving the seemingly unsolvable. Protecting businesses, individuals and livelihoods. Supporting our people, our communities. Safeguarding our planet. Looking for a way forward? At Hugh James, challenges of all sizes are readily accepted.

The Hugh James difference: Our law firm has always been guided by the idea that self-belief is just as important as skillset. Our pursuit of righting wrongs and protecting whats important keeps us driving forwards. Its in our roots! We wont stop until we find the answers; the outcomes that are needed.

We are focused on the work we do, the business we run, and our culture. Our entrepreneurial spirit has taken us from humble beginnings to a strong presence across the UK with offices in Cardiff, London, Manchester, Southampton and Plymouth servicing clients from businesses, individuals and banks to public sector organisations, property companies, education establishments and utilities providers. Our collegiate culture, our forward-looking ethos, our values serve to make us bigger, better, bolder than ever before.

A positive force in the community: Our work with charities on a local and national level plays a huge part in our day-to-day lives. We work with a large range of charities, some of which we support through fundraising, donations, volunteering and others we partner with where our areas of work cross paths. Staff, clients everyone comes together through a shared passion to do good in the community and support those in need.

Benefits

• Minimum of 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Two Corporate Social Responsibility days
• Birthday day off
• Death in service equivalent to twice annual salary
• Auto enrolment pension scheme
• Hybrid working
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounts for local businesses
• Professional fees paid (subject to requirement for your role)
• Employee recruitment incentive scheme

Hugh James is an equal opportunities and disability confident committed employer.

Thank you for taking the time to consider this opportunity. If you have questions, please contact Evie Koper.

We reserve the right to close our vacancies earlier than the given deadline if we receive sufficient applications for the role.