Personal Injury Paralegal

at  Browns Recruitment Group

Our Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence Team is offering an excellent Paralegal opportunity. We are seeking a proactive and ambitious individual with the skillset to approach this role with pride, professionalism and empathy.

This full-time, hybrid opportunity can be based from our brand new Bristol office located within easy access of public transport links, restaurants, bars and shops. This role is incredibly rewarding, we offer:

• 26 days holiday + bank holidays
• Hybrid working
• Career development – we welcome candidate wanting to develop via the SQE route.
• Additional Christmas leave
• Life Assurance
• Gym subsidy
• All the technology needed to excel when working from home.
• An opportunity to work with and learn from an incredibly talented team.

Ranked by Chambers and Legal 500, our well-regarded Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence team comprises of four Partners, two Senior Associates, an Associate and support staff. Our Partners are accredited by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, AvMA and the Law Society. Two of our Partners are individually ranked Band 1 by Chambers and two as Leading Individuals in Legal 500. With a client centred approach, our team specialises in managing cases where the injuries sustained are life changing.
You will have the opportunity to be involved in an incredibly varied and busy caseload including clinical negligence matters relating to birth injury and cases of maximum severity, spinal injuries, amputations, delay in diagnosing cancer, neurological injuries, cardiology, vascular surgery, orthopaedics, urology and gynaecology and a wide range of high value catastrophic personal injury matters.
Role: Paralegal
Location: Bristol
Hours: Full-time
Term: Permanent
Vacancy Reference: 1202-PBL

WHO WE ARE

You’ll be joining a national law firm that enjoys a strong reputation, made possible by our exceptional people – each chosen for their industry knowledge and passion for their field. We want to help you to reach your full potential, love the work you do and deliver the best results for your clients. It’s our goal to make you feel great about working with us, and we work hard to cultivate a culture that makes it easy for you to stay with us for many years.
We work flexibly and you’ll be empowered to work where you do your best work, balancing your individual needs with the need for us to engage as teams and deliver excellent client service.
Most of our people choose to work in a hybrid fashion, working from home and attending our offices on occasion. Our offices are in Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff, London, Manchester, Southampton, and Taunton.

DAY TO DAY, YOU’LL BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE BY:

On a day-to-day basis you will be:

• Handling new client enquiries
• Assisting with the initial opening of files, retainer documents and liaising with new clients
• Actioning requests for medical records when retainer documents are signed and as case progresses.
• Working alongside fee earners and assisting on client matters by drafting witness statements, cost update letters, assisting with Schedule of Loss, preparing List of Documents, preparing for Trial etc
• Assisting with identification of appropriate medical experts and arranging conferences with Counsel/client/experts.
• Document preparation and production using Microsoft Office packages
• Ensuring all emails and electronic documents are filed correctly within FileSite

Working under supervision, you will be able to assist the fee earners with their day-to-day caseloads and have the opportunity to get involved in business development activities as a key member of the team.
This is a busy role, with deadlines to manage and competing priorities, so you will be required to work quickly, accurately and efficiently, whilst remaining calm under pressure. You will be expected to think ahead to meet the needs of your team and clients.
It is an integral part of this role that you comply with information security and all firm policies and procedures.

THIS ROLE IS RIGHT FOR YOU IF:

We are looking for someone with a genuine interest in Clinical Negligence. You will be able to demonstrate real potential, with the talent, ambition and interest to succeed in a career within this field.
This role will suit you if you like to prioritise your own workload, work closely to deadlines. You will need to demonstrate from experience that you are exceptionally organised and proactive and that you have a flexible ‘can-do’ attitude.
We expect you to be someone who takes pride in your work and can provide a first-class support service to your fee earners, anticipating their needs in advance wherever possible whilst always paying meticulous attention to detail in all of your work.
You will have an excellent telephone manner, spelling and grammar and be proficient with the usual Microsoft packages, including Excel and PowerPoint

This full-time, hybrid opportunity can be based from our brand new Bristol office located within easy access of public transport links, restaurants, bars and shops. This role is incredibly rewarding, we offer:

• 26 days holiday + bank holidays
• Hybrid working
• Career development – we welcome candidate wanting to develop via the SQE route.
• Additional Christmas leave
• Life Assurance
• Gym subsidy
• All the technology needed to excel when working from home.
• An opportunity to work with and learn from an incredibly talented team