The role
Our Employment team is looking for a Paralegal to join them in Manchester. You will be working in a busy close knit team supporting Legal Advisors with a variety of top quality work for key clients of the practice. This team sees itself as an extension of our clients’ business. We partner with them to drive improvement, add value, and deliver solutions in creative ways that go beyond simply delivering legal advice.
The team
Our Employment team is widely respected for providing an excellent service and delivering pragmatic and timely legal advice to its highly regarded client base. It’s a collaborative unit, operating on national lines.
The team primarily works with employer clients on a mix of contentious and non-contentious matters. We also have specialists in advocacy, corporate work and business immigration.
The firm
We are a top 40 law firm with over 200 partners and around 1,500 staff in total. We have 13 locations in the UK and a significant international network including our new office in Brussels. Our clients include some of the largest financial, automotive, and technology businesses in the UK.
We champion diversity and inclusion, and do everything we can to attract and nurture a diverse group of people and to create an environment and culture that is genuinely inclusive, in which every member of staff feels valued for their contribution and can be themselves at work. We have been awarded Gold status in the Law Society Diversity and Inclusion Charter in recognition of our commitment to this. We are committed to promoting social mobility across the UK. We were the first major law firm to achieve “Gold Standard” Investors in People and most recently we achieve the Platinum accreditation.
Shoosmiths is committed to protecting the environment by demonstrating high standards of responsibility in all its operations and preventing or mitigating the environmental impacts associated with our activities, products and services.
We are a values-driven business - our values are at the core of the firm and we evaluate how we behave in accordance with these values through a competency framework.
Skills And Qualifications
- The ideal candidate will have prior experience working in a busy Employment team
- Confidence and significant prior experience liaising with and communicating with external clients on a regular basis
- Prior experience mentoring and/or supervising more junior members of the team
- Excellent attention to detail taken with all correspondence and documentation
- Flexible according to client needs, with the ability to adapt to change, new practices and remain calm under pressure
- Able to integrate within a team as well as working on your own initiative
- Prepared to get involved in business development, including the attendance at networking and other marketing events
- Good organisational skills to ensure that the tasks are effectively scheduled within working time available, and that urgent work is completed and returned within the specified timescales.
Equal opportunities
Our approach to our people is underpinned by our approach to diversity, inclusion and well-being. Our ambition is to build a diverse and ambitious workforce that reflects all backgrounds and talents, and a workplace that is supportive and inclusive, recognises and nurtures talent, and has a strong sense of community between colleagues.
This means that everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, whatever their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.
For further information on the role please feel free to contact Nina Marshall
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