Large Loss Paralegal

Our national Large Loss team provides national market leading legal service dealing with claims involving injuries of the utmost severity and complex technical insurance work. Weightmans’ Large Loss team handles claims primarily reserved over £350,000, representing in excess of £800 million of client reserves. Typical cases involve brain, spinal and amputation injuries and also substantial dependency fatality claims.

Your primary role will be to provide assistance to senior case handlers in the Large Loss team based in Liverpool or Manchester.

As a Paralegal, you will be provided with the opportunity to work on a wide variety of high value catastrophic personal injury cases for a number of Insurers. Your key duties and responsibilities will include:

• Assisting fee earners with various tasks including general case management, legal research, reviews of records, preparation for court hearings etc
• A capability to run a multi-track caseload independently (under supervision) as required
• Assisting with the instruction of Counsel and experts
• Responding promptly and accurately to correspondence and telephone enquiries from clients and other parties, with and without supervision
• Enabling compliance with client service level agreements
• Achieving set financial and chargeable targets

Supporting the team’s business development activities This list is not intended to be exhaustive and you will be expected to perform other duties and have other responsibilities that fall within the wider remit of the role. As a Paralegal you will also ensure that you comply with the relevant Weightmans and client policies and procedures, and consistently work in accordance with our values.