Court of Protection Senior Paralegal - Hampshire, United Kingdom - Chadwick Nott

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Court of Protection senior paralegal - Basingstoke

Excellent opportunity to join a leading UK and international law firm which provides high quality legal advice tailored to both businesses and individuals from offices across the South East.

Based in Basingstoke 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.

They 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. Although the work largely focuses on financial management the team 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.

The successful candidate will be responsible for day-to-day general management of the clients' affairs, and in many cases will act as a primary point of contact for the client.

Working on both Deputyships and Personal Injury Trusts, the successful candidate will be required to be aware of the full details of the clients' affairs and ensure compliance with the OPG Deputyship Standards in all general management tasks. They will have an allocated case load of clients, under supervision of a senior member of the team where there are more complex management matters.

In return the firm is offering an excellent salary and benefits package.

For further details and to apply please contact Briony at Chadwick Nott.

*Where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.