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.