# Complex Injury Paralegal

**Company**: Davies
**Location**: Southampton
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Legal

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## Description

We are seeking a Complex Injury Paralegal to join our team in Southampton. As a paralegal, you will have the opportunity to gain experience in large loss and complex injury work, including assisting on catastrophic cases and large loss cases valued from £100k to £5M. You will also develop your understanding of liability issues in RTA and EL/PL claims.

The role involves undertaking various file handling tasks to support a small team within our Complex Injury Claims Team. Your work will be supervised, and feedback will be given to help you develop your skills.

Key responsibilities include:

- Preparing basic court documents, filing and serving court documents, and diarising court orders and hearing dates

- Liaising with experts and counsel regarding CVs, fees, and availability for conferences, JSMs, and hearings

- Liaising with insureds and witnesses regarding attendance at conferences, JSMs, and hearings, and drafting witness summons

- Registering and updating CRU, notifying CRU of settlement

- Maintaining experts' summary, interim payment records, and offer history within the case management system

- Arranging appointments for claimants to be seen by medical experts, chasing for reports, drafting medical records mandates, applying for records and police accident reports

- Reviewing medical records and drafting summaries of those reviews using the records review spreadsheet

- Reviewing photographic evidence and surveillance footage and preparing a précis of the evidence

- Fielding telephone calls and dealing with general queries received from parties involved in the claims

- Arranging payments where required

- Conducting legal research

- Delivering agreed performance targets and quality standards

- Ensuring compliance with the SRA Standards & Regulations

The ideal candidate will have:

- A minimum education standard of 5 GCSEs grades 5 or above or A-C with an established interest in law

- Experience of and understanding of the litigation process in a file handling or assistant role

- Good telephone and communication skills with people at all levels

- The ability to organise and prioritise tasks using initiative

- Calm under pressure with the ability to re-prioritise and delegate effectively when required

- Attention to detail when dealing with repetitive tasks

- Self-confidence, with good literacy and IT skills

- Good teamwork skills with the flexibility to do what is required to get a result and ensure client service levels are met

We offer a range of benefits, including:

- Davies Incentive Plan

- 25 days holiday per year

- Simply Health Care Cash Plan

- WeCare – 24/7 online GP, mental health support, and virtual wellbeing covering a range of topics

- Death In Service – after 1 year's service

- Pension Contribution based 5% Employee / 3% Employer

- Employee Resource Groups

- Employee Volunteering Programme

- Cycle to Work Scheme

- Tech Scheme

- Season Ticket Loan

- Gym Flex

- Access to Online Discount Sites

- Discounted Gourmet Society Membership

- Discounted Tickets for Merlin Attractions nationwide

- Discounts at local retail outlets

## Skills

### Required
- litigation process
- file handling
- communication skills
- organisational skills
- attention to detail

### Nice to have
- paralegal experience
- legal knowledge

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