Hugh James
Paralegal - Serious Injury
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Serious Injury Department
The Serious Injury department is a multidisciplinary team which represent claimants and their families following life changing injuries such as traumatic head, brain, spinal cord injury, amputations and fatal injuries. The specialist team provides help and support with a heavy emphasis on rehabilitation.
Hugh James is a trusted legal partner of the Spinal Injuries Association (SIA), accredited by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL), approved brain injury solicitors by Headway UK, Brake, RoadPeace, Horatio’s Garden, the Limbless Association and the Brain Injury group.
Our solicitors have been consistently ranked in the top tiers by the independent legal guides, Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners, as leaders in the field of personal injury and specifically spinal cord and brain injury litigation.
The Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Paralegal to join the Serious Injury team in our Cardiff office. This is an exciting opportunity to join a new team, as part of the wider Serious Injury department. You will be responsible for:
- Assisting solicitors within the group in all procedures, including instructing counsel, issuing and pursuing court proceedings.
- Helping to manage a file load of litigated and non-litigated catastrophic personal injury cases.
- Drafting various documents including witness statements on liability and quantum, instructions to Counsel, particulars of claim and schedules of loss.
- Gathering evidence such as medical records and details of earnings losses to build up a case.
- Producing correspondence including instructions to expert witnesses and procedural forms for court.
- Arranging and attending multidisciplinary meetings, conferences with counsel and joint settlement meetings.
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The role will involve communication with clients via the telephone, email and in person. Excellent inter-personal skills are essential along with excellent client care skills to deal with sensitive issues involving emotional and vulnerable clients. You will also be expected to travel to meet clients and witnesses.
Skills & Qualifications
The successful candidate will be highly organised, responsible and a good team player.
This role will ideally suit an individual with extensive administration experience in this area of law. Knowledge and understanding of the litigation process is essential.
Life at Hugh James
We never shy away from a challenge
We are a leading, full-service UK law firm. Since our beginning, we have been led by the things that matter. We care about fighting for the right outcomes. Solving the seemingly unsolvable. Protecting businesses, individuals and livelihoods. Supporting our people, our communities. Safeguarding our planet. Looking for a way forward? At Hugh James, challenges – of all sizes – are readily accepted.
The Hugh James Difference
Our law firm has always been guided by the idea that self-belief is just as important as skillset. Our pursuit of righting wrongs and protecting what’s important keeps us driving forwards. It’s in our roots! We won’t stop until we find the answers; the outcomes that are needed. We are focused on the work we do, the business we run, and our culture. Our entrepreneurial spirit has taken us from humble beginnings to a strong presence across the UK with offices in Cardiff, London, Manchester, Southampton and Plymouth – servicing clients from businesses, individuals and banks to public sector organisations, property companies, education establishments and utilities providers. Our collegiate culture, our forward-looking ethos, our values serve to make us bigger, better, bolder than ever before.
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A Positive Force in the Community
Our work with charities on a local and national level plays a huge part in our day-to-day lives. We work with a large range of charities, some of which we support through fundraising, donations, volunteering and others we partner with where our areas of work cross paths. Staff, clients everyone comes together through a shared passion to do good in the community and support those in need.
Some of Our Benefits on Offer Include:
- Minimum of 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Two Corporate Social Responsibility days
- Birthday day off
- Death in service equivalent to twice annual salary
- Auto enrolment pension scheme
- Hybrid working
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Discounts for local businesses
- Professional fees paid (subject to requirement for your role)
- Employee recruitment incentive scheme
Hugh James is an equal opportunities and disability confident committed employer.
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