Employment Paralegal

The role

Bates Wells is seeking an Employment Paralegal to join their London office. This role is for a dedicated individual with a strong foundation in employment law, supporting the department with a range of tasks.

What you'll do

• Manage documents including preparation of hearing bundles and reviewing and redacting data
• Conduct legal research on a range of employment topics
• Produce written notes for fee earners
• Draft legal documents, ranging from employment contracts to Grounds of Claim / Resistance and witness statements
• Draft correspondence and advice notes to clients under supervision
• Interact with clients and provide client care
• Review documents and analyse the legal position for fee-earners
• Support fee-earners during the litigation process at all tribunal and Court levels
• Ensure correct case management, handle documents, draft applications to the Court and correspond with Courts and Tribunals
• Take note at client meetings and Court hearings
• Check legal forms and documents for accuracy
• Proofread legal documents
• Support the department in running client-facing marketing events
• Manage own workload and fee-earners expectations to deliver work on time
• Produce legally accurate letters of advice to clients under supervision
• Draft correspondence to third parties including the Employment Tribunals
• Circulate internal legal updates to fee-earners
• Produce accurate attendance notes documenting telephone calls / meetings
• Produce accurate memorandums documenting the results of research
• Communicate directly with a variety of clients on a daily basis including senior officials and high profile clients under supervision
• Take instruction from fee earners
• Communicate information back to members of the team following research / problems encountered
• Take attendance notes in client meetings
• Complete any necessary follow-up work from meetings as instructed
• Take initial instructions from clients via the telephone / email, analysing the facts and identifying client objectives – recording these in a clear manner for the head of department
• Research and report to fee earners on the likely methods of achieving client objectives taking into account the law, personal priorities / commercial practicalities and timing considerations
• Participate in team meetings
• Attend internal training and external training as and when required
• Keep up to date with developments in law and practice

What we're looking for