Mercantile Barristers
County Court Advocate
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Mercantile Barristers is a Barristers’ Chambers, based in the heart of Legal London, at Gray’s Inn.
Our members have established practices in traditional and commercial chancery work. Members particularly specialise in commercial litigation, company, construction, property, estates and sports law. Chambers provides full circle legal services on both contentious and non-contentious matters to businesses, professionals and high net worth individuals.
To assist with our increasing case load and organic growth we now require a County Court Advocate/Litigation Paralegal to join our team on a permanent basis.
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Key Responsibilities
Reporting to a Barrister, the successful candidate will be given advocacy work in county courts across England & Wales on cases in chambers predominately dealing with interim applications and small track trials. In addition the candidate will be working with and supporting counsel to maintain full litigation case management on other matters from pre-action conduct through to trial and appeal, where necessary, in compliance with the Civil Procedure Rules.
This role would suit an enthusiastic litigator with ability to work alone and in a team with counsel servicing other solicitors and Public/Direct Access clients.
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Basic Qualifications
- Between 3 – 5 years’ paralegal experience in a commercial litigation law firm or barristers’ chambers.
- Completion of the Bar course.
- County Court Advocacy experience is required.
- Very competent knowledge and use of the Civil Procedure Rules
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
- Smart professional appearance, friendly manner, flexibility, innovative and forward thinking.
Salary
We offer a competitive salary dependent on experience.
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