Legal Assistant - Basingstoke, Hampshire, United Kingdom - myGwork

Description

This inclusive employer is a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community.

Penningtons Manches Cooper is a leading UK and international law firm which provides high quality legal advice tailored to both businesses and individuals.

We address the specific objectives of each client through our flair and technical expertise and offer a personal service founded on a strong team ethic.

Today, we have UK offices in the City of London, Basingstoke, Birmingham, Cambridge, Guildford, Oxford and Reading while our growing overseas reach covers Singapore, Piraeus, Paris, Madrid, and Sao Paulo.

Among our clients we count multi-national corporations, public companies, professional partnerships, banks, and financial institutions as well as private individuals, owner managed businesses and start-ups.

We are conscious that our culture and close working relationships are vital assets, and we are determined to maintain these as we increase in size.

The COP Team have established a significant reputation for advising and assisting individuals, their families, carers, trustees, beneficiaries, and other professionals on a broad range of issues arising from catastrophic personal injury, including serious brain injury with high value compensation awards.

The team supports litigation lawyers throughout the conduct of the claim.

We work closely with the Court of Protection, the individual and their family to establish long-term relationships and to ensure all decisions are made in their best interests.

Our aim is to relieve the pressure of financial decision making from family members, enabling them to continue to make the key choices and to support their relative on a day-to-day basis.

Although our work largely focuses on financial management, we also become involved with welfare matters such as care funding, welfare benefits, deprivation of liberty special education and generally issues relating to capacity.

The quality of work is both complex and rewarding undertaken within a dedicated growing team.

In the Legal 500, the COP Team are noted as "a very friendly yet professional team and are keen to ensure everything they do is centred fully around the client and in their best interests", which epitomises the ethos of the team; The firm operates a hybrid agile working policy allowing employees to work from home (or another UK location) for at least 50% of their time.

Individuals can also apply for other flexible working options either at the time of recruitment or during the course of their employment.

Paralegals in this team often go on to secure training contracts with us, or other firms due to the fantastic training and experience offered.

Working on both Deputyships and Personal Injury Trusts, the successful candidate will manage an allocated case load of clients alongside a senior member of the team and will be expected to daily tasks including:
Assisting senior members of the team with discrete tasks as required;
Preparing budgets for their clients for financial advisers and the Court;
Arranging insurance policies for clients;
Liaising and consulting with senior members of the as appropriate on team policies and general management of client matters.
At our firm, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is a priority and at the heart of everything we do.

We ensure that there are equal opportunities and treatment for all job applicants and employees, at all stages of the recruitment process and employment, regardless of age, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, disability, race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and social background.

We aim to provide adjustments for people who have a disability, long-term health condition (including mental health) or neurodiversity.