Senior Paralegal, Construction and Projects

Role Overview

Vario is a market leading alternative legal services provider within the law firm, Pinsent Masons. Vario is a practice group within Pinsent Masons which incorporates;
Flexible Services, Consulting and Technology, Legal Project Management and Managed Legal Services (MLS).

Our Centre of Excellence team sits within our MLS team and brings together a range of paralegal skills and capabilities, which provides a variety of services to our practice groups and clients.

We are recruiting a Senior Paralegal to support our Construction and Projects team. The Projects team specialises in Construction, Energy and Infrastructure and Project Finance.

Our paralegals support the Projects team and clients nationally, working on matters furthering the development of a variety of key infrastructure projects. We envision this to be a vital role in strengthening the Centre of Excellence’s support to the Projects practice group.

• Preparing, reviewing and negotiating construction documents including building contracts, (SBCC, JCT and NEC forms) consultant appointments, collateral warranties, novations, deeds of assignment and notices of assignment
• Reviewing construction documentation to prepare due diligence reports
• Day-to-day matter management
• Arranging and managing execution of documents (in hard copy and / or using Docu Sign).
• Conducting legal research
• Data room management including uploading documents, red actions, and project management
• Management of documents including sorting, reviewing, categorising, redacting, bundling, indexing, uploading and filing
• Other ad-hoc tasks and responsibilities as dictated by the business and client needs
• Acting as a role model for the Centre of Excellence in interactions with stakeholders, being confident in flagging spare capacity to fee earners, and proactively networking with the Practice group to identify areas where paralegals can assist
• Supporting the Delivery Manager with quality checking the work of more junior paralegals
• Playing an active role in the wider team by participating in team meetings / discussions and supporting the Delivery Manager with supervision of more junior members of the team

Our standard working hours are 9.00am-5.00pm, however, we are happy to consider flexible working requests.

We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:

• Previous experience working as a Paralegal within a Construction team
• Exposure to Infrastructure, Real Estate, and / or Energy sectors would be highly desirable
• Experience of working within a commercial law firm, understanding of the levels of service delivery required and building relationships with lawyers

Agile working (the opportunity to work from home, subject to diary commitments)

Carers’ leave (up to five paid days’ leave towards caring responsibilities)

25 days’ annual leave entitlement and the opportunity to purchase or roll over 5 days

Contributory pension of up to 5%

Private healthcare policy

Death in service cover (4 x base salary)

Eligibility to apply for an interest free season ticket loan, an interest free gym membership loan and / or an interest free rental deposit loan

Cycle to work scheme