My client is a prestigious and well-established law firm and is currently seeking a dedicated and skilled Serious Injury Paralegal to join their Complex Injury Claims Team in Leeds. In this role, you will play a vital part in handling non-delegated high-value multi-track and catastrophic injury claims, including assisting on multi-million pound brain injury, spinal injury, amputation, and fatal claims.
As a Serious Injury Paralegal, your responsibilities will include:
- Undertake a variety of file handling tasks to support a small team within the films Complex Injury Claims team.
- Preparing basic court documents; filing and serving court documents; and diarising of court orders and hearing dates
- Liaising with experts and counsel regarding CVs, fees and availability for conferences, JSMs and hearings
- Drafting of witness summons
- Liaising with courts regarding hearings, applications and consent orders
- Maintaining experts summary, interim payment records and offer history within case management system
- Arranging appointments for claimants to be seen by medical experts; chasing for reports; drafting medical records mandates
- Review of photographic evidence and surveillance footage and preparing a precis of the evidence
- Arranging payments where required
My client is looking for a strong paralegal who has previous experience within Serious Injury work with experience of and understanding of the litigation process, the firm are also happy to consider those with fast track litigation case handling experience.
How to ApplySound like the role for you? If you are interested in hearing more about this Serious Injury Paralegal opportunity, or wish to apply to it, then please contact Chloe Smith on or ask to speak to another member of the Chartered Legal Executive and Paralegal division.