Paralegal

Shakespeare Martineau is a Top 50 law firm that combines creativity, commerciality and clarity. We work with blue-chip companies, leading organisations, high street brands and individuals across the country.

As enterprising and original thinkers, we’re driven to create exceptional experiences for our clients and our people. We handle personal and business-critical issues and game-changing deals across many dynamic sectors. It’s stimulating and rewarding.

We’re hardworking and deeply ambitious about creating opportunities for our employees; to move forward and achieve our ambition together. We provide an environment in which you’re supported to reach your potential.

Our people have a blend of excellent technical and business skills with the talent to do things differently.

Here you’ll find top quality work, cutting edge training, high profile clients, and supportive colleagues. We think it could be time you joined us.

To provide truly outstanding client service we work as one team.  Our Business Operations Group is made up of business professionals who work with our legal professionals to provide market leading expertise to our clients.  The Groups include; Finance, Operations, HR, Marketing, IT, Risk and the Executive Leadership team.

Our Risk team of around 8 people is based in the Birmingham and Leicester offices.  The team takes a proactive approach to risk and is split into 3 core functions: prevention, detection and response.  The team work closely with the firm to ensure adherence to policies and procedures and compliance with quality standards.  Work includes compliance with the SRA Code of Conduct, Anti Money Laundering, ISO27001 & 9001 maintenance, data protection, SRA renewal, cyber security, training and claims and complaints management.

The role:

You will provide a high quality service to the firm and its clients as a Paralegal within our Birmingham-based Risk team. 

The Risk team are located in the Birmingham, Stratford and Leicester offices; this role will be based in the Birmingham office, with occasional travel to other offices when required.

Your key duties will include:

• providing administrative and legal work support to the COLP and Legal Counsel
• assisting with drafting of policies and procedures
• working on cases involving Shakespeare Martineau
• document production and general correspondence
• diary management, handling of telephone calls, dealing with queries where appropriate

Skills and experience you will have:

• preferably 6 months’ experience in a similar role and/or in litigation
• a strong attention to detail
• strong IT skills (ideally including experience of Excel and Powerpoint)
• excellent written English

Key competencies you will need:

• to be highly organised and able to be flexible during busy periods
• to have willingness to work hard with drive and enthusiasm (and a desire to develop a career as a professional and thus to put in the necessary groundwork)

Due to the nature of the work undertaken, confirmation of employment will be subject to a variety of checks which will be carried out once an offer of employment is accepted. Details of the checks can be found here.

Shakespeare Martineau is a committed equal opportunities employer. We seek to attract, develop and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. We value and respect individuality and encourage a culture within our business where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths and experiences. Everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.