Role: Paralegal
Location: Leeds
Salary: Dependent on Experience

We are seeking a full-time, permanent Criminal Law Paralegal for our busy Leeds office to join our expanding team.

Your Profile

• Be currently undertaking, or have completed, legal studies - for example, through the LPC/BPC (or equivalent), SQE preparation, or relevant academic modules/experience

• Be able to demonstrate an interest in Criminal Law

• Have Police station accreditation

• Have strong organisational skills

• Have the ability to work under pressure

We would like the ideal candidate to:

• Provide the highest level of client care in the management of client matters

• Provide support to Fee Earners

• Build relationships with internal and external partners

• Ensure that files are managed effectively, creating letters or documents on the case management system

• Complete public funding applications

• Collating and redacting large documents for court bundles where necessary

• Liasing with the local authorities, Police and medical professionals to request/receive documents

• Liasing with Courts and experts

Our offices are friendly, working entirely paperless with recent significant investment into modern IT to enable you to work proficiently. Our junior members are office-based in order to take advantage of onsite training provided by an established criminal team.

Our comprehensive benefits package includes generous annual leave allowances, providing 23 days (plus bank holidays/Christmas and New Year). We regularly review and increase annual leave allowances based on services.

Employee Benefits

• Competitive base salary

• Birthday leave in addition to annual leave

• Electric vehicle scheme

• Pension scheme with employer contribution

• Benenden health care

• Administrative support

• Firm laptop

• Ongoing training and development

• Support from colleagues for case cover

• Supportive supervision from mentors

• Annual appraisal and salary reviews

• Bi-annual parties for Summer and Christmas in London

• Additional perks and benefits

• Competitive training package

We have a dedicated in-bound telephony team to take calls and messages for our fee earners. We are a multi-office, multi-service Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners firm recognised for excellence in a variety of fields.

Please send your CV and a cover letter to our dedicated HR team via email on: recruitment@gtstewart.co.uk