# Legacy Paralegal

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

**Apply**: https://davies.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/78f57eca-657f-45f2-897a-32cc51a9c297?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_bec62485-719

## Description

We are seeking a Legacy Paralegal to support the members of the Legacy Disease Team in achieving Client KPI's and SLA's. The successful applicant will undertake a variety of tasks, including:

- Updating Tracker with file allocations, diary records, court dates, directions, applications and orders, as well as general activity

- Drafting routine court documents, such as AOS, Notice of Change, Court Orders, Witness Summons, and precedent-based applications

- Liaising with Courts, Counsel, Opponents, Experts, Witnesses, Insureds, and brokers to progress the case

- Following up on outstanding instructions, documents, and other actions to ensure responses are received within required timescales

- Making payment requests using the appropriate payment request process for the client and chasing to ensure payments are received and dispatched within required deadlines

- Diarising and updating CRU

- Ensuring compliance with the SRA Code of Conduct 2011

The role will also involve undertaking additional ad hoc duties to support the Fee Earners and the team, including:

- Completing initial steps in recovery of the Client's outlay and collating the outcome

- Undertaking minor investigations on liability and quantum to provide File Handlers with basic information to progress the claims

- Undertaking administration duties on files, such as completion of MI, drafting write-off forms, requesting final bills, and dealing with billing queries

The ideal candidate will have:

- Experience of working in a legal environment

- Good communication skills and experience of negotiating with and influencing third parties to obtain information

- Demonstrable experience of following a semi-prescribed programme of work, dealing with calls and enquiries from customers, suppliers, and/or the public, gathering and recording information, and ability to work under own initiative, prioritising and organising own workload

- IT literacy, including proficiency in MS Office (notably Excel, Word, and Outlook) and experience of using a Claims/Case Management system

- GCSE grade A-C in Maths and English or equivalent

The benefits package includes:

- Davies Incentive Plan

- 25 days holiday per year, which increases with level of service

- 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
- MS Office
- Excel
- Word
- Outlook
- Claims/Case Management system
- communication skills
- organisational skills

### Nice to have
- experience of working in a legal environment
- negotiating with and influencing third parties

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