Senior Litigation Paralegal

The role

Shoosmiths is seeking a Senior Litigation Paralegal for their Financial Services Litigation Team in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. This role focuses on asset recovery litigation for Asset Based Lender clients and requires experience supporting a management team in delivering client services.

What you'll do

• Manage litigation and collections cycles of assigned cases across all three litigation workstreams
• Assist the management team in day-to-day team management
• Provide training and support to junior paralegals to move assigned cases forward in line with client requirements
• Support the management team with client service delivery, including report production and billing
• Manage inbound and outbound calls to a FCA standard which ensures the best outcome for our customers are achieved
• Negotiate settlement of matters
• Manage file management within the case management system to ensure that our client’s cases are progressed timely and accurately
• Ensure that customers information is recorded accurately to our case management system and ensuring clients are kept updated on changes
• Take personal responsibility for compliance with all relevant client and internal Service Level Agreements
• Ensure that Junior Paralegals are also delivering
• Take responsibility to ensure that our clients’ accounts are successfully management through the court process to ensure a positive outcome for our clients
• Make enforcement decisions or recommendations on behalf of our clients and enforcing court judgements
• Remain professional and polite at all times
• Support Junior Paralegals with appropriate training, both technical and operational
• Provide feedback to Junior Paralegals to aid their development
• Interact with clients and providing recommendations on account progression
• Manage own workload with limited supervision
• Deputise for relevant management personnel in their absence

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