We are seeking an experienced Paralegal to join our team at Walker Morris.

This role offers a unique opportunity to be part of a vibrant central hub of Paralegals, while also being embedded within a core legal department. You will be supported by a dedicated Paralegal Manager, who will help you develop your career, alongside Partners, Directors and lawyers within your department who will support your legal and technical development.

As a Paralegal at Walker Morris, you will act as a key point of contact for lawyers and support staff, providing assistance across a range of matters while managing your own caseload where appropriate. You will gain valuable experience working closely with Partners and Directors, with opportunities to support on projects, attend external client meetings, and take ownership of defined pieces of work.

You will work alongside partners and fee earners on a broad range of matters, taking responsibility for day‑to‑day case management and consistently delivering a high standard of service to clients.

As a paralegal, you will:

• Handle your own caseload of files (where appropriate) from instruction, to issuing proceedings and enforcement and under the supervision of a more senior fee earner.
• Undertake certain elements of fee-earning work under supervision. In particular:
• creation of first draft client documentation;
• generation of suitable client care correspondence;
• maintaining key client relationships;
• drafting of petition/court documentation;
• attendance at routine meetings/hearings plus minute taking responsibilities.
• Deal with routine client enquiries and communications wherever possible.
• General administrative tasks to support fee earners including monthly reporting on cases for client purposes and invoicing of files.
• Deputise for fee earners in their absence if necessary, passing urgent issues to another senior fee earner for guidance.
• Use the telephone to allow for quick response answers/client chasers.
• Provide support to other fee earners in various departments as and when required.

We are looking for:

• Hold a Law Degree or Law Conversion qualification with a minimum of 2:1 classification.
• Have previous Paralegal experience within a commercial Law Firm, ideally within Litigation.
• Be able to communicate confidently both verbally and written with senior team members.
• Have sufficient IT knowledge of Microsoft programmes, with a particular focus on Excel.
• Be able to quickly identify clients' needs and always provide excellent service.
• Effectively prioritise tasks based on importance and urgency.
• Build strong working relationships with colleagues across multiple departments.

This is a full-time position working Monday to Friday 9-5:30. We offer hybrid working options at Walker Morris with a minimum of 60% of your time spent in the office; however, a commitment to office-based working is beneficial in this role, as it enables you to provide a comprehensive service to clients.

Some of our benefits include:

• £26,228 per annum rising to £27,228 after 1-year.
• Annual performance-based bonus scheme.
• Minimum of 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays per year increasing to 31 days with length of service, with the opportunity to buy up to 5 days holiday per year.
• Auto enrolled into the workplace pension scheme, and we'll contribute a minimum of 6% of your salary.
• 4x your annual salary in the event of a death in service.

Find out more about working at Walker Morris here.

Company Values

Our shared values represent our culture and the things that are important to us. They define who we are as a Firm, as an employer and what we expect of our people. They provide direction and purpose by influencing the decisions that we make and the actions that we take. It’s really important that all candidates and employees demonstrate these values in their day-to-day activities:

• Embrace the fact everyone is different and unique.
• You can be serious without wearing a suit.
• Never lose sight of the bigger picture.
• Two heads are better than one.
• Take the bull by the horns.
• We win & lose together.

Walker Morris is committed to being an inclusive employer. We welcome applications regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, neuro diversity or disability status, family or parental status, race, religion or ethnicity. Click here to find out more about our diversity and inclusion work.

If you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to ask. We are a Disability Confident employer.