Trainee Paralegal - Corporate

Holmes & Hills Solicitors; Colchester; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional law firm in the UK is seeking a Trainee Paralegal to support its Corporate & Commercial team. In this role, you will assist solicitors with various administrative tasks and gain experience in corporate transactional work. The ideal candidate will have a positive mindset and excellent communication skills, along with a willingness to learn. This position offers a supportive environment and opportunities for professional development within a progressive law firm.

Benefits

28 days holiday plus bank holidays

Medicash cash back schemes

Life Insurance

EAP and wellbeing support services

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Cycle scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in administration duties ideally within a legal team.

Responsibilities

• Assist the team with corporate transactions and company secretarial matters.
• Manage diary and emails for the Corporate Partner.
• Provide administrative support to solicitors.

Skills

Positive mindset and willingness to learn

Great communication skills

Team player

Attention to detail

Ability to juggle multiple priorities

Word, Excel, data entry skills

Job description

Job Vacancy

We have an exciting opportunity for a Trainee Paralegal to join our growing Corporate & Commercial team. This is a key role in our Corporate & Commercial team to support the existing Paralegal and assist with administrative tasks and gradually learn the role to become a Corporate Paralegal.

THE ROLE

You will join an established team of 7 and provide the solicitors with administrative support whilst building up experience and training to support the corporate fee earners in the team with paralegal aspects of corporate transactional and company secretarial work. This is a great opportunity for someone looking for progression within an administrative role with the ability over time to progress into a fee earning role with the full support, training and supervision from the wider team. Please note we are not looking for a graduate who is keen to become a Solicitor.

THE DAY TO DAY

• To assist the team by working alongside the team’s existing corporate paralegal to deliver support to the solicitors in the team and clients on corporate transactions and company secretarial matters.
• Corporate transactional work will include over time – arranging meetings, client engagement and management, information gathering from clients and external/internal sources, running and managing data rooms, DocuSign and preparing documents for signing, ancillary documents production, and management, company secretarial support and completion and post completion support.
• Company secretarial work will include over time - Companies House filings, liaising with HMRC in respect of stamp duty payable on shares, updating company statutory registers, and bespoke client services to be developed over time such as a registered address service and company restorations.
• In addition to the above the work will also include over time offering a wider company incorporation and company secretarial support service across the firm.
• General team admin tasks will include liaising with business support, the accounts department and the wider secretarial team to implement tasks such as billing, payment requests and transfers, verifying bank details, matter opening and closing, case management system admin and file management, conflict checks, document formatting and production, printing, scanning, assisting with ID checks and source of funds checks, creating and maintaining spreadsheets and other team information, typing up attendance notes and such other admin tasks as required from time to time.
• Bespoke work requests from the team and to support as needed on matters or otherwise.
• Diary and email management support for the Corporate Partner to assist with internal projects and emails to make sure these are progressed in required timescales, input is obtained as needed by others in the firm, chasing others and booking in client and external events and meetings where multiple people are required to attend.
• Help with new enquiries and monitoring the team's inbox for this.

WHAT EXPERIENCE DO I NEED?

To be successful in this role you should have experience in administration duties ideally within a Legal team.

WHAT SKILLS SHOULD I HAVE?

• Positive mindset and willingness to learn
• Great communication skills
• A team player
• Attention to detail
• Great at being able to juggle multiple priorities
• Word, Excel, data entry, organising projects and people and delivering work to tight deadlines
• Company law or some knowledge of company structures would be an advantage but is not essential

WHAT ARE WE OFFERING?

• A supportive, relaxed and flexible work environment in an experienced and growing team.
• 28 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays
• Medicash cash back schemes after 1 years’ service
• Life Insurance
• EAP and various other physical and mental wellbeing support services including virtual GP access 24/7
• Family friendly policies such as enhanced maternity and paternity pay plus, family events leave
• Company sick pay
• Cycle scheme

About Us

Holmes & Hills Solicitors is a large regional firm of solicitors with seven offices across Essex and Suffolk and over 200 legal professionals across a number of specialist departments. Holmes & Hills works in partnership with clients across Anglia, including businesses, individuals, families and local authorities, to build long standing relationships, protect clients' interests and support clients' growth and development.

Working in partnership with businesses and individuals

Holmes & Hills' large team of legal experts work in partnership with individuals and organisations to provide them with truly proactive legal services through personal relationships. Acting as a trusted advisor to clients, we take the time to understand clients' needs and objectives before delivering practical advice through a personal and accessible approach.

Independently recognised as a leading law firm

Holmes & Hills Solicitors is independently recognised by The Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners - two independent directories of the UK’s top law firms - as being a leading supplier of legal services in the region. These accreditations give our clients the confidence that the legal advice and representation they receive from Holmes & Hills is some of the best available. Our clients range from established and growing businesses whose brands are recognised and sold around the world and local authorities across the region, through to families and first-time home buyers.

At Holmes & Hills we are proud to have a culture of sharing, collaboration and mutual respect. We are genuine, authentic and down to earth. We are passionate about what we do and how we do it and believe our Values demonstrate the quality and commitment we give to our many clients. These values run through the core of our firm and are fundamental to the develop and progression of our 200 highly valued colleagues. We also offer the opportunity to work for a progressive, modern and inspiring law firm in a regional area that brings with it the benefit of a good work/life balance, flexibility and family focussed with genuine opportunity to progress and develop evidenced by our commitment to our Career Pathway and Training Pathway.