Paralegal

The team

Our national Employment team is widely respected for providing an excellent service providing pragmatic and timely legal advice to its highly regarded client base. The team primarily works with employer clients along with some individual advisory work and a mix of both contentious and non-contentious matters. We also have specialists in advocacy corporate work and business immigration.

The role

The Shoosmiths Employment Team has a unique opportunity to join our Scotland team as a paralegal supporting a commercially significant equal pay project on an initial 6-month fixed-term basis. This is a collaborative role offering the chance to work alongside colleagues across our national employment team as well as leading barristers on one of the most high-profile and evolving areas of employment law.

The role

The role provides an excellent opportunity to gain hands-on experience in complex litigation. You will:

• Immerse yourself in the detail of claimants employment histories
• Attend witness meetings
• Assist with the preparation of defence documentation
• Analyse the wider litigation landscape
• Observe strategic discussions shaping the defence of large-scale equal pay claims

The team operates on a hybrid basis between Edinburgh and Glasgow with three days per week in the office at least two of which will be spent in Edinburgh with the flexibility to work from home on the remaining two addition to developing invaluable legal and commercial experience the role offers an opportunity to build relationships across the firm and meet your future Shoosmiths colleagues.

About you

Skills and qualifications

• Ideally prior experience working as a paralegal in an employment environment
• Commercially minded and confident with experience liaising with and communicating with external clients on a regular basis
• Excellent attention to detail taken with all correspondence and documentation
• Flexible according to client needs with the ability to adapt to change new practices and remain calm under pressure
• Able to integrate within a team as well as working on your own initiative
• Good organisational skills to ensure that the tasks are effectively scheduled within working time available and that urgent work is completed and returned within the specified timescales

The firm

Shoosmiths is the law firm clients choose for excellent service incisive thinking and above all for our ability to focus on what matters. From offices across the UK and Brussels we support some of the worlds most exciting and ambitious businesses; amazing clients making an impact. We empower our people to be their authentic selves and deliver together in supportive teams committed to excellence and innovation.

The first top 50 law firm to achieve Platinum Standard Investors in People our values and culture are not just words on our website but are the heartbeat of the firm.

We have an outstanding benefits package to complement our competitive remuneration addition to the competitive salaries great working environment and high-quality work we believe that all staff should be rewarded for their commitment to the continued success of the firm through a comprehensive and flexible range of benefits.

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Benefits Package

Shoosmiths is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. Disability Confident is a government scheme designed to encourage employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with long term conditions.

As part of our accreditation we commit to interviewing any applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for each some circumstances we may only be able to interview those that best meet the essential criteria due to the volume of applications received.

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Equal opportunities

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