Lime Solicitors
Paralegal - Medical Negligence
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It is the people at Lime Solicitors that make us so special. By understanding what our people want, giving them the support they need, recognising everyone’s contribution and realising the unique power of teams; together we win. As a firm we are focused on proactively building and developing diverse teams, bringing different backgrounds, personalities and perspectives together. We play to our strengths, pushing ourselves to be consistently better than yesterday and deliver amazing solutions for our clients. We empower our teams with a high degree of individual responsibility; we self-manage and encourage everyone to be responsible for their own learning, knowing it makes us even better at what we do!
We believe in trusting our people to make the right decisions for themselves from how you dress, to how, when and where you work – we focus on outputs.
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Meet the team:
Our Medical Negligence team deal with claims arising as a result of healthcare professionals acting against the interests of our client’s health. We advise clients who have suffered physical, mental or economic loss as a result of this negligence and guide them through the initial investigation into their claim and thereafter proceeding through the pre-action and post issue phases of County and High Court litigation. We also regularly attend our client’s inquests.
Our specialist team have dealt with thousands of claims against hospital trusts, private healthcare providers, care homes, individual GPs and dentists on a variety of different injuries ranging from low to high severity, with particular expertise in relation to fatal claims, industrial disease cases, amputations, brain injury and multiple injuries.
The opportunity:
We have an exciting role available for a Paralegal to join our thriving Medical Negligence team. You will play a key role to provide support to senior fee earners.
This is a hybrid role where you will be required to travel into our Birmingham office on a weekly basis.
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Key Responsibilities
- Liaising with clients in a professional and empathetic manner
- Providing assistance on a broad range of medical negligence work
- Working with appropriate supervision, to assist on large complex claims
- Assessing medical records
- Instructing experts and considering their reports
- Drafting Letters of Claim and considering the responses
- Instructing Counsel
- Preparing cases for the issuing of Court Proceedings
- Assisting with litigated case
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- A minimum of 6 months' experience within medical negligence, personal injury, general litigation etc. gained in a Law Firm or professional services
- Strong IT skills, to include MS Office and Excel
- The ability to manage files effectively
- Experience in working to strict deadlines
- Enthusiasm for working with medical negligence matter
- Ability to produce a high standard of work at a fast pace whilst maintaining accuracy and good attention to detail
- Good communication skills with the confidence to liaise openly with colleagues and clients
- Ability to demonstrate flexibility, initiative and confidence in your own ability
Benefits, Agile Working and Additional information
We embrace agile working and offer a blended approach to where and how we work.
We appreciate that people have different needs and preferences and we’re keen to be flexible, after all, we value what you do, not where you do it.
We have the following hubs across the UK: Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, Leicester, Lincoln, London, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Sheffield, Stratford upon Avon & Tunbridge Wells.
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Additional information:
Please be aware, for some vacancies, where we receive high numbers of applications we may need to bring the close date forward.
Due to the nature of the work undertaken, confirmation of employment will be subject to a variety of checks which will be carried out once an offer of employment is accepted. Details of the checks can be found here.
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Equal opportunities
Lime, as part of the Ampa Group is a committed equal opportunities employer. We seek to attract, develop and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. We value and respect individuality and encourage a culture within our business where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths and experiences. Everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.
About Lime
Welcome to Lime Solicitors, where we believe in the power of expert legal advice to transform lives. Our commitment to empowering individuals is at the core of everything we do. With a client-centric approach, we ensure a seamless legal process founded on empathy and understanding.
As market leaders in medical negligence, personal injury, inheritance disputes, employment disputes, and professional negligence, Lime Solicitors is dedicated to excellence in every aspect of our work. Join our supportive nationwide team, where everyone is valued and treated with respect and dignity.
As part of Lime Solicitors, you'll have the opportunity to collaborate closely with clients, advocating for their needs and achieving the best possible outcomes for them and their families. Together, we share their stories to raise awareness and make a positive impact in our communities.
We are proud to be a part of Ampa, a group focused on unlocking potential. We believe in the power of &: corporate & human, purposeful & profitable, ambitious & inclusive. Ampa Group provides the shared infrastructure, development programmes, culture, values and empowered working framework that enable our brands, and our people, to thrive. For you, that means access to award-winning learning, flexibility built on trust, and opportunities to collaborate across a diverse network of specialists.
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