Paralegal Apprentice (salary £22,000)

About the role

Legal Assistant (Apprentice) 🚀

Are you ready to kickstart your career in the legal world? We're looking for ambitious and organised individuals to join our team as Legal Assistant Apprentices. This is your chance to gain invaluable experience and learn the ropes in a dynamic and supportive environment. ✨

What You'll Be Doing:

• Client Onboarding: You'll be the first point of contact for new clients, helping to open their cases and ensure all identity and onboarding checks are completed smoothly. 🤝
• Case Management: Keep our client case files in tip-top shape! This means making sure they're accurate, organised, and always up-to-date. You'll be chasing down any missing info to keep things moving. 📁
• Document Prep: Get hands-on with essential legal documents. You'll help prepare, paginate, and index documents, witness statements, and tribunal bundles. 📄
• Tribunal Support: Upload documents to the employment tribunal system and be the keeper of important dates and directions. 🗓️
• Signature Coordination: Arrange electronic signatures for crucial documents, including settlement agreements. ✍️
• Event Support: Help prepare materials and printed packs for client training sessions and important tribunal hearings. 📊
• Case Closure: Assist with the smooth closure of completed matters, following our established processes. ✅
• Data Subject Requests (DSARs): Play a key role in responding to DSARs. This involves gathering, organising, and redacting documents, and assisting with preparing responses under supervision. 🕵️‍♀️
• Legal Research: Conduct legal research for our solicitors and summarise your findings to help them provide top-notch advice to our clients. 📚

What's In It For You:

• Generous Holiday: Enjoy 27 days of annual leave plus an extra day off for your birthday! 🎂🥳
• Private Healthcare: We've got you covered with private healthcare. 🩺
• Pension Power: Receive a fantastic 10% employer pension contribution to help secure your future. 💰

Ready to make your mark? Apply now! 👇

Key responsibilities

• Open new client matters and help complete identity and onboarding checks.
• Keep case files accurate, organised and up to date, including following up missing information.
• Help prepare, paginate and index documents, witness statements and tribunal bundles.
• Upload documents to the employment tribunal system and record important dates and directions.
• Arrange electronic signatures for documents, including settlement agreements.