Management Disrepair Paralegal

Housing Management Disrepair Paralegal – Birmingham, Bristol or Leeds

Join Bevan Brittan LLP to apply for the role of Housing Management Disrepair Paralegal in Birmingham, Bristol or Leeds. The role supports the Solicitors within the Housing Management team.

We have an excellent opportunity for a Paralegal, ideally with some litigation legal experience, to join our team. The role will involve supporting the Solicitors within the team with their caseload, while also offering the opportunity to build a personal caseload of appropriate cases. Clients will primarily be housing associations, local authorities and specialist supported accommodation providers. Full support and supervision will be provided.

The successful candidate will work closely with our dynamic and passionate team of Housing Management lawyers to advance cases to court or to settlement. The work will be varied, challenging, interesting and often urgent. Examples of the types of work that the Paralegal will need to undertake are as follows:

• Ensuring compliance with litigation deadlines
• Drafting County Court claims
• Preparing witness evidence
• Preparing disclosure lists and documents
• Liaising with Counsel, opponents and the Courts
• Preparing trial bundle indexes and bundles
• Drafting costs schedules for hearings
• Arranging case conferences, witness meetings and conferences with Counsel

The role will also include contact with clients to take instructions and progress cases.

• A genuine interest in social housing
• Competent in all IT applications, including Word, Excel and Outlook
• Strong attention to detail and a clear communication style (both written and verbal)
• Punctual with good time management skills and the ability to manage and prioritise a range of tasks
• Commitment to good customer service
• Good empathy skills and the ability to deal with a range of different personality types when working with clients and witnesses
• Commitment to meeting or exceeding personal targets
• Willing to listen and learn
• Good team player with a willingness to assist colleagues
• Self‑motivated, enthusiastic, committed and approachable
• Ability to remain calm and professional when under pressure

Bevan Brittan is a leading commercial law firm. Alongside our recognised expertise in housing, local government, and health and social care, we are specialists in the construction, energy and resource management, higher education and financial services sectors. Supported by valued business services professionals, our award‑winning and growing legal teams work together to support almost 2,000 organisations with commercial, corporate, property, finance, regulatory, employment and litigation (commercial and clinical negligence) legal and advisory services.

We embrace four values:
Relationships, Reputation, Responsible and Results. These give us a sense of purpose and motivate us to deliver meaningful outcomes for our clients and the communities that we’re part of.

Seniority level: Entry level
Employment type: Full‑time
Job function: Legal
Industries: Law Practice and Legal Services