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Commercial Litigation Paralegal

MCKINLAY LAW
Posted 2 days ago, valid for 6 days
Location

London, Greater London NW5 1UH, England

Salary

£42,000 per annum

Contract type

Full Time

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  • The job title is Commercial Litigation Paralegal located in Central London with a salary of up to £42,000.
  • The firm is seeking a candidate with at least 12 months of experience in commercial litigation or arbitration, or exceptional academic credentials including LPC/SQE 1.
  • Responsibilities include legal research, document review, drafting various legal documents, and advising clients throughout the litigation process.
  • The position offers excellent long-term career prospects and the opportunity to work on major, high-profile cases within a friendly team.
  • Candidates should ideally have experience with document review and disclosure, particularly using Relativity.

Job Title: Commercial Litigation Paralegal

Location: Central London

Salary: to £42,000

Leading London law firm are looking for an experienced commercial litigation and arbitration paralegal to assist them on several major, high-profile cases. Excellent long term career prospects.

A selection of responsibilities:

  • Undertaking legal research
  • Putting together trial bundles
  • Document review
  • Liaising with counsel
  • Drafting: witness statements, instructions to Counsel, disclosure letters, pleadings etc.
  • Proof reading and redacting documents
  • Locating and instructing expert witnesses
  • Managing correspondence
  • Note taking: Attending client meetings and court
  • Advising clients throughout all stages of the litigation process
  • All pre- and post- litigation duties

It is essential that you either have at least 12 months' experience as a paralegal working in another commercial litigation or arbitration team, or stellar academics including the LPC / SQE 1. Ideally, you must be confident with document review and disclosure and ideally have experience using Relativity. Exceptional opportunity to gain further quality experience on a major, high-profiles case working for a well-known team.

Very friendly, fun team and the firm has a reputation for really looking after their staff. There are exciting long-term prospects with this firm as they have historically offered training contracts to their paralegals.

McKinlay Law endeavour to contact all successful candidates within 24 hours. However, due to the volume of applications that we receive, we are not able to respond to every candidate individually. If you have not heard from us within 24 hours your application has been unsuccessful and we have not retained your details.

 

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