Paralegal - Employment (LEI) - Leeds

We’re a national law firm with a local reach, offering service support to our business and individual clients We’re a collaborative team of people working together to help our clients navigate life’s ups and downs. Working here you’ll feel a part of our friendly and inclusive environment and you’ll be able to make an immediate and valuable contribution the way in which we support our clients with their legal matters.

We’ll value you for who you are and what you bring. We support each other and push boundaries to achieve incredible things.

We're always looking to support our colleagues to work in a way that works best for them and everyone else, including our clients, the business and the regulators. Please speak to a member of our Recruitment and Onboarding team for more information.

Your Role and What You'll Be Doing

Our Team

The Leeds Employment team is led by partner Jenny Arrowsmith. We provide support to businesses in a variety of different sectors and individuals. The work undertaken by the team is therefore varied including advice on redundancies, disciplinary and grievances, whistleblowing, discrimination, settlement agreements, TUPE, absence management, trade union matters, pay and contract work.

We have a collaborative approach to how we work, both with clients and internal colleagues.

Your Role

This is a fantastic opportunity to work as a paralegal within our Leeds Employment team. You’ll be supporting colleagues with a focus on contentious Employment Tribunal work, predominantly cases that are funded by Legal Expenses Insurance (LEI).

LEI is a dedicated area of work within our Leeds team so you’ll benefit from working closely with other colleagues who do similar work as you, as well as being part of the wider Leeds and Northern team. The types of cases are varied with a mix of Claimant and Respondent claims and can include multi-party or high value claims and more straight-forward dismissal, discrimination or wages claims. In all respects, you’ll have supervision and support in the cases you’re involved in from solicitors in the team. Working with colleagues and also having direct client contact on most matters, you’ll be able to extend your expertise in all areas of employment litigation and enhance your practical skills of communication, organisation, teamwork and efficiency.

It’s a busy role with plenty of opportunities for your professional development and you’ll be immediately making a significant contribution to how our LEI team delivers ongoing excellent service to our LEI clients.

About You

• Some previous Paralegal experience, preferably in employment law but subject area is not essential
• Great communication and organisational skills
• The ability to interact with clients and external organisations
• A friendly, enthusiastic and can-do approach

We’re proud of our values, and we’re looking for people who share them

• To be pioneering with an imaginative outlook
• To be approachable and caring
• To be tenacious in the pursuit of our objectives
• To be efficient in the provision of our services
• To work with a foundation of integrity.

If this sounds like you, we’d love to receive your application.

Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You

• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
• Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.

We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.

We're proud that we’ve been recognised as one of the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025!

Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.

Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.

Additional Information

As part of the Irwin Mitchell Group’s on-boarding process all successful applicants are required to complete the group’s employment screening process. This process helps to ensure that all new employees meet our standards in relation to honesty and integrity therefore protecting the interests of the Group, colleagues, clients, partners and other stakeholders.

We carry out pre employment screening to establish your eligibility to work in the UK, criminal record and financial checks ­with our trusted 3rd parties. The employment screening process will fully comply with Data Protection and other applicable laws.

Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.