Catastrophic Injury Paralegal - Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment

Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment
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Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Complex Injury Paralegal - Newcastle - Hybrid - Defendant - £19k-£27k


The Role:


  • Preparing basic court documents; filing and serving court documents; and diarising of court orders and hearing dates.
  • Liaising with experts and counsel regarding CVs, fees and availability for conferences, joint settlement meetings and hearings.
  • Drafting of witness summons.
  • Registering and updating CRU and notifying CRU of settlement.
  • Maintaining experts' summary, interim payment records and offer history within a case management system.
  • Review of medical records and drafting summaries of those reviews using the records review spreadsheet.
  • Review of photographic evidence and surveillance footage and preparing a precis of the evidence.
  • Redaction of documents to ensure legal privilege maintained and/or no GDPR breaches.
  • Arranging payments, where required.
  • Conducting legal research.
  • Minimum of 5 GCSEs at grade A-C, with an established interest in law
  • Experience within a legal environment or further education (LPC/ILEX)
  • Experience of and understanding of the litigation process, preferably in a file handling role
  • Experience of handling Personal Injury cases.
Salary on offer is between £19,000 and £27,000 DOE.
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