Paralegal - Family Sheffield, England
Job description
Job Description
Job Title: Paralegal
Location: Sheffield
Salary: Competitive, plus benefits
About the Company gunnercooke is the blueprint for the future of legal services, a firm that is passionately, obsessively focused on brilliant service for its clients. A law firm, with a difference.
We’ve taken away lots of the constraints that prevent lawyers from giving a brilliant client service and we’ve replaced them with a model that attracts the best legal talent to join us, giving them the freedom to invest fully into their client relationships.
The Role
Due to planned expansion, a wonderful opportunity has arisen to join gunnercooke working under the direct supervision of a Family partner as a paralegal.
You will bolster the current team and assist in providing fantastic service to existing clients whilst receiving first class training and support to further your career in family law.
Responsibilities
- General support to partner and his clients
- Direct contact with clients
- Undertaking drafting
- Dealing with queries and client communications
- Progressing matters
The Person
Skills and Abilities
- Clear and concise written and spoken communication skills.
- Excellent listening skills with a proactive, problem-solving approach.
- Client service oriented. Reliable, keeps commitments, pro-active.
- Great attention to detail.
- Outstanding organisational and interpersonal skills and thrives on meeting exacting deadlines and delivering exceptional service to internal clients.
- A calm, professional, welcoming approach with the ability to work under pressure.
- Ability to plan and control activities to meet objectives.
Personal Attributes
- Be able to maintain a positive and cheerful demeanour to building excellent working relationships with a wide variety of colleagues and partners.
- Be very people oriented – want to be helpful and sort things out for people.
- Thrive on spinning many plates with a cool head and to empathise with those you are spinning them for.
Experience
- Ideally completed legal practice course or undertaken family law as a module on undergraduate degree
- Paralegal experience preferred but not necessary
- Based in or around Sheffield
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £18,000.00-£24,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Supplemental pay types:
- Bonus scheme
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Sheffield: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- Paralegal (preferred)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Sheffield
Application deadline: 24/02/2023
Reference ID: GCJB
