Paralegal in Coventry

Role: Complex Injury Paralegal

Location: Coventry

Contract: Permanent, Full Time

Job Purpose:

This role offers an excellent opportunity to work with Steven Warburton in the Complex Injury Claims Team, assisting on complex high value claims. This role involves dealing with both personal injury and non-injury EL and PL claims as well as product liability cases which may involve a foreign law element.

The role of Paralegal offers the excellent opportunity to gain experience in large loss and complex injury work including assisting on large loss cases valued from £100k to £1M.

The role is suitable for someone who has previous litigation experience in the world of RTA / EL / PL Personal Injury looking to enhance their career.

Key Accountabilities:

You will work as part of Steven’s team helping to progress each case: Tasks will include:

• Preparing basic court documents; filing and serving court documents; and diarising of court orders and hearing dates
• Liaising with experts and counsel regarding CVs, fees and availability for conferences, JSMs and hearings
• Liaising with insureds and witnesses regarding attendance at conferences, JSMs and hearings. Drafting of witness summons.
• Liaising with courts regarding hearings, applications and consent orders
• Registering and updating CRU, notifying CRU of settlement
• Maintaining experts summary, interim payment records and offer history within case management system
• Arranging appointments for claimants to be seen by medical experts; chasing for reports; drafting medical records mandates; applying for records and police accident reports
• Review of medical records and drafting summaries of those reviews using the records review spreadsheet
• Review of photographic evidence and surveillance footage and preparing a precis of the evidence
• Redaction of documents to ensure legal privilege maintained and/or no GDPR breaches
• Fielding telephone calls and dealing with general queries received from parties involved in the claims including the insureds, insurers, experts and witnesses
• Arranging payments where required
• Conducting legal research.
• Delivery of agreed performance targets and quality standards

Working Hours:

This is a full-time role - 35 hours per week, Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm

Essential Skills and Attributes:

• Minimum education standard of 5 GCSEs grades 5 or above or A-C with established interest in law either through further education (e.g. LPC or ILEX) or experience within a legal environment
• Experience of and understanding of the litigation process, either in a file handling or assistant role
• Good telephone and communication skills with people at all levels inside and outside the business
• An ability to organise and prioritise tasks using initiative
• Calm under pressure with the ability to re-prioritise and delegate effectively when required
• An ability to maintain attention to detail when dealing with repetitive tasks
• Self-confidence, with good literacy and IT skills
• Good team worker with the flexibility to do what is required to get a result and ensure client service levels are met

Compensation & Benefits:

Salary discussed & disclosed on application, hybrid working 1 day per week in office remainder remote working, Health Care Cash Plan, Holidays 25 days plus 8 bank holidays (opportunity to buy & sell 3 days) increasing to 26 after 5 years’ service and to 27 after 10 years’ service, Death In Service – after 1 year, Employer Pension Contribution, Cycle to Work Scheme*, Tech Scheme*, Season Ticket Loan*, Gym Flex* (*after successfully completing probation)

Values:

Our culture is focussed on making Keoghs sustainable and successful for our people and clients, with this our four values are at the heart of everything we do.

Keoghs values:

ü We are connected

ü We are dynamic

ü We are innovative

ü We succeed together

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for interest in this position and in our organisation and look forward to receiving your application.