Personal injury paralegal

Responsibilities and key skills:
An excellent opportunity to work for an innovative and growing law firm. The firm have an exciting opportunity to join their personal injury team to work as a paralegal handling personal injury claims.

The main objective of the role is to profitably manage a caseload of personal injury claims, acting at all times in the best interest of the claimant.
 

The ideal candidate will be required to:

• Manage their own workload of files;
• Accurately record all time spent;
• Manage files to ensure that all payments made and received are accurately recorded and the procedures relating to payment of disbursements and damages are followed at all times;
• Monitor and manage own compliance with targets in respect of income and file closure rates.

To be considered for this paralegal/legal assistant role:

• A minimum 2.1 law degree classification;
• Some experience of dealing with personal injury within a law firm, or within a commercial in-house environment is preferred but not essential;
• Experience of RTA portal desirable but not essential;
• Professional and enthusiastic approach to work and learning;
• Strong attention to detail;
• Strong organisational skills and communication, ability to prioritise work, multitask and work to tight deadlines;
• Team player but comfortable working on own initiative;
• IT literacy with competency in Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook;
• Self-motivated.

This role is suitable for someone who would like to progress to more complex matters in due course.

We will only consider replies received via email, please do not contact the office by telephone. 

Please email applications to: [email protected].