Winckworth Sherwood LLP
Paralegal (Telecoms)
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ABOUT THE ROLE
This full time, London based paralegal role is to work within our market leading commercial property, licensing and telecoms department. As a paralegal in the team, your main focus will be supporting two partners on contentious and non-contentious work centred around ‘The Telecoms Code’.
Day to Day Tasks
- Carrying out title checks and preparing title reports.
- Preparing a first draft of reports pre the service of notices under the Telecoms Code.
- Drafting and serving notices under the Telecoms Code.
- Instructing Counsel on pleadings.
- Preparing bundles.
- Dealing with filing of claims and filing of documents whilst in proceedings.
- Dealing with service of documents.
- Attending meetings and hearings where required.
- Helping with trial preparation.
- Formatting and tidying up documents.
- Assisting in the preparation of reports for the client.
- Running conflict searches, setting up new clients / matters and making sure that client information is up to date.
- General ad hoc tasks to support the team.
Please note, we are sourcing this role directly and won't require agency support.
ABOUT YOU
This is an excellent opportunity for someone with prior commercial property, property litigation or telecoms related paralegal experience to join one of the leading telecoms teams in the UK. You will have a passion for providing first class client care, thrive in a busy work environment that involves a lot of time sensitive deadlines (including court deadlines), and enjoy organising your day around an intellectually stimulating and varied workload.
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In return, you will have the opportunity to work on a high-quality caseload for some of the largest telecoms businesses in the UK, supported by an inclusive team who support each other with good humour and a focus on a shared goal.
WHY US
Winckworth Sherwood is an exciting, diverse, and growing business. We are a full-service law firm with a diverse client base, that prides itself on providing advice across a broad range of sectors and markets. Delivering a first-class service is key to everything we do.
Our clients range from some of the UK’s largest businesses and institutions, housebuilders and developers through to investors, professional partnerships, family offices, not for profit organisations and private individuals – all of which benefit from the flexible, practical approach of our lawyers.
We recognise that our people play a key part in our success and as a result we are committed to their development and well-being. We promote a healthy work-life balance and flexibility, keeping our people motivated and stimulated to deliver great things.
YOUR APPLICATION JOURNEY
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Your profile will be screened by a member of the WS recruitment team. If your CV is shortlisted, you will be invited to have a short call with our Recruitment Manager, Ash Evans, to discuss your interest in the vacancy. No AI is used in our application screening process! Every candidate who applies to this role will be told if they have been successful or not in moving to the next stage.
Interview (in person at our London office)
You will get the opportunity to meet the head of our commercial property, licensing and telecoms department and the partner who heads the telecoms team. This will be a good opportunity to ask role specific questions and understand more about how this role fits into the team.
Every candidate who reaches this stage will be offered the chance to have a feedback call with our Recruitment Manager to understand why they weren't offered the position, so that you can use this feedback to help with other job applications.
Offer of Employment
If you are successful and accept our offer of employment, we will submit your details to our background screening company (Giant), who will conduct a series of background checks. Once these have been completed and we have separately validated your proof of right to work in the UK, a start date can be agreed, and your onboarding schedule can be planned.
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