Paralegal

PARALEGAL

Birmingham, Leeds or Manchester

Salary: £24,000

Role Overview

Vario is a market leading alternative legal services provider within the law firm, Pinsent Masons. It is unique in the legal sector. Vario is a practice group within Pinsent Masons which incorporates; Flexible Services, Consulting and Technology, Legal Project Management and Managed Legal Services (MLS). This role sits within our MLS team.

Our Paralegal Centre of Excellence brings together a range of paralegal skills and capabilities, which provides a variety of services to our practice groups and clients.

As the Vario team grows, we are recruiting Paralegals to deliver a variety of legal work for our clients within a number of practice groups. The role will provide exposure to quality commercial legal work including:

• Document review projects in relation to litigation, cyber incidents, DSARs and employment matters among others
• Due diligence of contracts, lending and security documentation and property documents including leases
• Drafting legal documents and reports
• Trial and Hearing Preparation - Preparing drafts of documents including witness statements, correspondence, forms, applications, schedules and lists
• Transactional Support – including company search reports, security registration, post completion tasks and bibles
• Data room management including uploading documents, redactions, project management and administration
• Undertaking legal research
• General administration tasks and assisting fee earners with other ad-hoc duties

Our standard working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, however, we are happy to consider flexible working requests.

Candidate Overview

We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:

• A passion for quality, excellent service delivery as well as self-improvement
• An interest in building a career in an alternative legal services environment
• Experience using Microsoft packages including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Customer service, administrative or previous legal experience would be beneficial

What can we offer you?

• Tailored career development and support within our award-winning team
• Agile working (the opportunity to work from home, subject to diary commitments)
• Carers’ leave (up to five paid days’ leave towards caring responsibilities)
• 25 days’ annual leave entitlement and the opportunity to purchase or roll over 5 days
• Contributory pension of up to 5%
• Private healthcare policy
• Death in service cover (4 x base salary)
• Eligibility to apply for an interest free season ticket loan, an interest free gym membership loan and/or an interest free rental deposit loan
• Cycle to work scheme

What happens next?

Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email.

We will run assessment centres at the end of September where you will attend an assessment centre and meet members of the hiring team. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.

Our strength lies in our differences.

We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a founding member of the Mindful Business Charter, signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It’s with different perspectives that we’ll find solutions to our clients’ most complex challenges. It’s how we’ll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.

Our in-house recruiter, Victoria Greaves, would be happy to have an informal chat about this role, provide this job advert or our application form in an alternative format, and/or discuss any reasonable adjustments to be made either during the recruitment process or after offer stage. You can contact Victoria by emailing careers@pinsentmasons.com