Paralegal (Construction & Engineering)
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Job Introduction
Our Professional and Commercial Risk team is seeking a motivated Paralegal to join their ranks, offering an environment where flexibility and career progression thrive.
As part of one of the UK's largest and most highly regarded construction and engineering practices, you'll collaborate with over 50 senior lawyers tackling high-profile projects across the UK, Ireland, and beyond. From drafting bespoke agreements to providing commercial advice on dispute avoidance and resolution, we deliver exceptional service, and you will play a vital role.
Based in Newcastle, our strong team of specialists is consistently rated Band 1 by Legal 500 and Chambers, reflecting the excellence and innovation we bring to every project.
With a supportive culture and a focus on work-life balance, this is an ideal opportunity for someone eager to contribute to industry-leading work.
Role Responsibility
As a paralegal, you will play an integral role in the success of our team. You will support the other lawyers in all aspects of the high value work that we deal with for our clients. You will be also given the opportunity to work on some less complicated claims with a greater degree of autonomy, commensurate with your level of experience.
Other specific responsibilities include but are not restricted to:
- Acting as a point of contact for clients, responding to their requests and providing a high level service to clients at all times.
- Legal research.
- Letter drafting and correspondence with third parties.
- Document and bundle preparation.
- Demonstrating a good level of financial management and accurate time recording.
- Supporting marketing and business development activity and contributing to non-fee-earning activity as appropriate, e.g. knowledge sharing, training, assisting and preparing updates for clients and the team, legal research etc.
- Handling confidential information in line with the firm’s data security protocols.
The Ideal Candidate
Essential:
- Strong communication skills both written and verbal.
- Ability to deal confidently and professionally with clients and colleagues on day to day issues.
- Excellent organisational skills, able to prioritise and manage tasks within set timeframes.
- Ability to demonstrate a reasonable level of self-sufficiency, combined with an awareness of the boundaries of own competence/authority.
- Change oriented with a positive, flexible approach towards the implementation of new initiatives.
- Team oriented and collegiate with a willingness to share knowledge and support other members of the team.
- Excellent IT skills, to include Word and Outlook.
Desirable:
- Experience of working in a target driven commercial environment would be an advantage.
- Excellent commercial awareness and an interest in broader business issues.
About DAC Beachcroft
We're a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We're market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities.
We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top 20 UK and global insurers, we're market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top five housebuilders.
We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe. In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Miami, plus a broad network of affiliations across the globe.
Working with us
Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. Combine this with our supportive culture and hybrid working model, and you have: a Life that Works.
Our flexible approach means that we help our colleagues to be their best at work, while recognising that they have all sorts of different interests and commitments outside work.
We pride ourselves on our supportive, approachable culture. We are trusted, appreciated as individuals and embraced as part of a team. At DACB, we don’t just accept your differences, we celebrate and advocate for them. From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you as an individual. Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the ‘whole you’ to work. So, if you’re good at what you do, come as you are!
We are a Disability Confident employer and guarantee to interview anyone with a disability, long term health condition or neurodiversity whose application meets the essential criteria for the role. If this applies to you and you feel you meet the minimum criteria for this vacancy as set out in this advert then please contact disabilityconfident@dacbeachcroft.com in confidence, quoting the reference number for this vacancy in the subject box of your email, and a member of the Recruitment team will be in touch.
We are happy to talk flexible working and have in place a Flex-forward working scheme. We would encourage you to talk to us about our approach to flexible working during the hiring process if you would like to explore this further.
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Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft LLP resourcing team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible. We do work with recruitment agencies and where we require external support we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us. Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the resourcing team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable. Our resourcing team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com
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