Senior Paralegal

We are recruiting for a Senior Paralegal in Managed Legal Services (Document Review and Collation). This is a full time, permanent position based in our Bristol Office.

Your Role

• Undertaking a first level review of documents to a high standard on all team core work types, with attention to detail, accuracy, and speed.
• Undertaking a quality check of the first level review of colleagues. Where appropriate, you will be required to provide constructive feedback to the individual, and/or feed back into the management team.
• Ability to analyse new instructions received into the team and take detailed instructions from fee earners and follow instructions, making suggestions to streamline the process to make it more efficient where appropriate.
• Being a team player, with the ability to work on your own initiative, but as part of the team to ensure that the team’s time is being effectively managed to meet deadlines of the existing workload.
• To train new members of the team on TLT systems, DRC ways of working on all work types.
• Serving as a link with the managers and delegating where necessary and appropriate.
• Communicating with client teams and external clients as required to ensure instructions are sought and followed.
• Reporting into management regularly on the progression of on-going work and to assist in managing the team’s day to day workloads when required.
• Managing your financial outputs carefully, and to encourage those around you to do the same, ensuring changes to time/cost/quality to the project are properly considered and managed.
• Financial auditing of matters worked on by you to ensure that matters have been set up to allow DRC time to be recorded accurately.
• Liaising with project mangers from eDiscovery providers and managing the ongoing relationship TLT has with them, flagging issues and working on improving systems.
• Using eDiscovery technology to a high level and that outside of a standard user.
• Assisting on training and advising on internal teams on the application and efficient use of technology.
• Use expertise and hands on experience with eDiscovery tools and other software to come up with solutions.
• Assisting on disclosure/investigation projects with the project management lead including scoping the process from review to following it through to production, ensuring that traction on matters continue to allow deadlines to be met.

Your Skills and Experience

• Extensive paralegal experience gained within a document review role.
• Proven ability to run own documents reviews to a high standard, with accuracy and minimal supervision.
• Proven technical abilities of the disclosure process.
• Proven technical ability to identify privilege.
• Proven technical ability to work on a data subject access request for any client or type to take the role as lead reviewer to liaise and update QC/second level closely. To support fully from scoping out the SAR to the production of the response.
• Sets high standards for performance and directs people with tasks with authority.
• Experience of drafting and maintaining precedents and training materials.
• Experience of using bespoke TLT systems, such as Collaborate and Kira.
• Experience of maintaining and building relationships with both internal and external clients and providers.
• Proven understanding and compliance of the financial aspect of the paralegal role, consistently taking personal reasonability for the project and monitoring the costs and WIP.
• Must have a general understanding of eDiscovery technology and its appropriate and effective application.
• Evidence of proactively using initiative to drive projects forward and keep them on track.
• The ability to build and maintain professional relationship with colleagues, clients as well as a drive for business development.
• Previous experience of supervision and/or overseeing the work of others, delegating, and providing feedback, addressing training requirements and identifying suitable resources to address training needs.
• Excellent communication and self-management skills.
• Ability to multitask and work to tight deadlines.

Your Team

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Document Review and Collation Team (DRC) within our Managed Legal Services which provides multi-disciplinary expertise and scalable legal and complementary resources to support all TLT legal groups when delivering large scale projects and legal managed services for our clients. 

The DRC team is made up of a combination of non-qualified / qualified resource and paralegals who support both contentious and non-contentious fee earners from across the firm on a variety of matters.

About TLT

Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.

We work with high profile clients in innovative sectors. With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,800 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. TLT was named Law Firm of the Year at the Legal Business Awards 2023. This marks the third year in a row the firm has taken away this accolade in industry awards - having previously been named Law Firm of the Year at The Lawyer Awards in 2021 and the British Legal Awards in 2022.

Our purpose is to protect, prepare and progress our clients for what comes next and it’s essential that we do the same for our people, our planet and our communities too. In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute.

Our Benefits

We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance. 

At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of our people. We’re happy to talk about how flexible working can work for you and this role. 

TLT is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment and encourages applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of disability, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by the laws in the locations in which we operate.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments, where necessary, to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, require any reasonable adjustments or an application to Access to work please contact the recruitment team on Recruitment.Operations@TLT.com

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