Paralegal - Employment

Department: Employment, Pensions and Immigration - North

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Leeds

Description

The Leeds Employment team acts for a range of market leading clients across the financial services, healthcare and commercial sectors. The team has a strong and growing reputation in the Leeds market and is recognised as Band/Tier 1 in both the latest Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 UK rankings.

The team has a strong reputation in the Leeds market, acting for a stable of significant financial services clients and household name corporates as well as being a market leader in the public and independent health sectors.

For more information on our Employment and Pensions expertise please go to https://www.dacbeachcroft.com/en/gb/expertise/services/employment-and-pensions/

Key Responsibilities

• Undertaking a wide range of document management activities, with a particular focus on more complex and document-heavy exercises.
• This includes the full range of disclosure tasks in litigated cases and also conducting the first level review of data subject access requests (DSARs) under data protection legislation, with a view to taking greater responsibility and ownership for DSAR review exercises over time.
• Both may involve formulating and applying search terms to electronically held data provided by the client, sifting and reviewing raw data for relevance (whether through e-discovery platforms or other electronic means), identifying non-relevant/privileged/business confidential material, collation, redaction and indexing ready for production, and working collaboratively with clients' IT / discovery management personnel.
• Considering evidence to establish relevant witnesses and checking availability.
• Drafting agendas and lists of issues for case management discussions.
• Assisting with the drafting of COT3 settlements.
• Drafting briefs to counsel and liaising with barristers and clerks.
• Drafting applications to Employment Tribunals and liaising with Tribunals.
• Drafting costs applications and preparing schedules of loss/costs.
• Regular liaison with other paralegals, trainees and lawyers to ensure the efficient management of caseloads and deadlines.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• A good academic record with a 2.1 in Law or a related subject.
• Previous experience of working as a paralegal within an employment team.
• Preferably with practical experience of handling larger scale disclosure and/or employee DSARs under data protection legislation, including the core steps as set out in the section above.
• Familiarity with e-disclosure tools and platforms would also be preferable, but not essential.
• A confident communicator.
• Able to deal effectively with internal and external contacts with strong verbal and written communication.
• Close attention to detail and an eye for quality.