We are recruiting for a Paralegal in the Managed Legal Services team.

Paralegals in this team support and deliver our growing portfolio of legal projects on behalf of all 5 of the firm’s practice groups. This role is in support of an ongoing project within the Public Inquiries & Public Law team who act on behalf of high-profile governmental inquiries, including sensitive matters of national security or public interest. The team also supports government clients advising on Public Law matters, including the drafting of secondary legislation. This is a full-time opportunity which is being offered on a 12 month fixed term contract.

Your Role

As a Paralegal, you will provide support to the team on day to day case work, including the following tasks:

• Developing an understanding of complex issues in order to review and categorise a wide range of evidence in support of a Public Inquiry’s investigations;
• Using e-disclosure platforms and specific systems (full training provided) to implement both relevance and redaction policies and decisions, to provide disclosure to relevant stakeholders
• Taking detailed instructions from fee earners within the team and providing regular updates on progress;
• Attending meetings and contributing to discussions to enhance and maintain the quality, consistency, and value of the team’s work;
• Meeting targets and time recording.

Your Skills and Experience

• Accuracy, good organisational skills and flexibility.
• Attention to detail and the ability to work under tight timescales.
• Exceptional critical reasoning skills.
• Excellent communication skills (both oral and written).
• Previous experience with large-scale document review is preferable.
• Previous experience using Relativity is ideal but not essential.
• Advanced legal research skills, with a high level of proficiency with Westlaw and LexisNexis.
• Exceptional legal drafting skills.

Your Team

TLT identified the creation of the Managed Legal Service team as a critical element of the firm’s strategy. Managed Legal Services is a rapidly growing team that provides a range of services and legal resources supporting all business groups across the firm. MLS sits firmly at the centre of the TLT future way of working and will enable the firm to:

• Meet client expectations relating to our operational expertise and capabilities.
• Enable us to improve our competitiveness and the value offered to our clients.
• Diversify our product offerings; increasing our responsiveness to future opportunities and helping us to win more work.
• Enable us to maximise efficiencies in our business, building on the successes and experience in each group.
• More systematically resource & be able to handle peaks in demand.
• Provide a diverse and challenging Paralegal career structure supporting multiple routes to qualification.

About TLT

Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.

We work with high profile clients in innovative sectors. With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,200 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. In 2021 we were named The Lawyer’s Law Firm of the Year, recognising our incredible success story.

Our purpose is to protect, prepare and progress our clients for what comes next and it’s essential that we do the same for our people, our planet and our communities too. In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute.

Our Benefits

We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance.

At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of our people.

TLT is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment and encourages applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any of the characteristics protected by the laws in the locations in which we operate.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments, where necessary, to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, require any reasonable adjustments or an application to Access to work please contact the recruitment team on Recruitment.Operations@TLTsolicitors.com