Department: Personal Injury
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Manchester
Reporting To: William Broadbent
Join JMW’s top ranked Catastrophic Injury team in Manchester and take the next step in your legal career.
We are looking for an experienced Paralegal with a background in personal injury, including catastrophic injury claims, to become part of our specialist team. This is an excellent opportunity to work alongside recognised leaders in the field, supporting the handling of complex brain injury, spinal cord injury and amputation claims, while developing your expertise within a collaborative, supportive and growing team.
Each year, JMW’s Personal Injury department secures millions of pounds in compensation for clients across the UK by taking positive action on their behalf and presenting the strongest possible case. Our team of expert personal injury lawyers produce some of the best results in the industry. They pride themselves on providing a high level of customer service and understand how an injury can have an impact on clients' day-to-day lives.
Over decades of success, the department has received recognition from numerous legal institutions, including being ranked in band 1 for personal injury work in the Northwest for both Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500, and receiving the Corporate Supporter Award at the inaugural Child Brain Injury Trust Diamond Awards, for our ongoing support and fundraising for the charity.
In your role as Paralegal, you will support senior members of the team with their caseloads, ensuring matters progress efficiently and files are maintained to a high standard of accuracy and client care. You'll take responsibility for a wide range of legal, administrative and case-management related tasks including:
While you settle into your role initially, your work will be full office-based. However, there will be the option for you to work from home up to 2 days per week thereafter.
Our paralegals support across the team – they need to be efficient, have exceptional attention to detail, maintain a very high standard when preparing communications and documentation, and possess a solid grounding in personal and serious injury claims work.
To succeed in this role, you will also need to demonstrate:
At JMW Solicitors LLP we strive to offer the very best in professional legal services. We are committed to delivering the highest quality, cost effective legal advice covering a wide spectrum of corporate and private client work.
Our partners, many of whom are leaders in their field, have a shared desire to provide practical, commercial solutions to our clients' legal issues. By adopting a warm, open and friendly manner, we aim to foster special working relationships with our clients, who range from private individuals in all walks of life through to SME companies and major international corporates managing flagship brands.
With 3 offices in the UK, our head office in Manchester, a full service office in London and one of our specialist family law teams in Liverpool we have a team in excess of 500 Partners and staff. JMW aims to offer an entirely new approach to the provision of legal services. We train our people on the importance of quality and efficiency to help them understand client’s needs and the best way to meet their expectations. We are proud of our northern roots and heritage, and consider it important to give back to our local community.
