Housing Management Disrepair Paralegal

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Housing is one of our core markets and focus areas for growth. The Bevan Brittan Housing Management team has experienced significant growth over the last couple of years and is now one of the largest housing management practices in the country. Our track record of delivering high quality advice means that growth is set to continue, with a number of major tender wins adding to an already impressive list of clients based across the country and nationally.

We advise a considerable number of registered providers, ranging from many of the top ten largest providers in the country at one end of the spectrum to smaller, specialist providers at the other and everything in between. We assist our clients to tackle anti-social behaviour, tenancy fraud, unlawful occupation, disrepair claims, access issues and rent arrears as well as assisting them to manage changes to legislation and the consequential effects that changes in government policy have on their organisations.

Whilst the majority of our work is for housing associations, we also increasingly provide housing management services to a range of other types of organisation including local authorities, care providers, the NHS, universities, charities, and private landlords.

The role

We have an excellent opportunity for a Paralegal, ideally with some litigation legal experience, to join our team.

The role will involve supporting the Solicitors within the team with their caseload, but will also offer the opportunity to build a personal caseload of appropriate cases. The clients you will be advising will mostly be housing associations, local authorities and specialist supported accommodation providers. Full support and supervision will be provided.

The successful candidate will work very closely with our dynamic and passionate team of Housing Management lawyers to advance cases to court or to settlement. The work will be varied, challenging, interesting and often urgent.

Examples of the types of work that the Paralegal will need to undertake are as follows:

• Ensuring compliance with litigation deadlines
• Drafting County Court claims
• Preparing witness evidence
• Preparing disclosure lists and documents
• Liaising with Counsel, opponents and the Courts
• Preparing trial bundle indexes and bundles
• Drafting costs schedules for hearings
• Arranging case conferences, witness meetings and conferences with Counsel

The role will also include contact with clients to take instructions and progress cases.

What we are looking for from you

The successful candidate will have the following experience:

• A genuine interest in social housing
• Competent in all IT applications, including Word, Excel and Outlook
• Strong attention to detail and a clear communication style (both written and verbal)
• Punctual with good time management skills and the ability to manage and prioritise a range of tasks
• Commitment to good customer service
• Good empathy skills and the ability to deal with a range of different personality types when working with clients and witnesses
• Commitment to meeting or exceeding personal targets
• Willing to listen and learn
• Good team player with a willingness to assist colleagues
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic, committed and approachable
• Ability to remain calm and professional when under pressure

The Recruitment Process

The next stage of our application process will be a video assessment. This provides a great opportunity for you to share additional information with us to support your application. The video assessment will take between 10-15 minutes and requires you to record yourself answering 4 short questions.

The final stage of our recruitment process will be an interview with two managers from the relevant team. This will be a one-hour online interview, including a mixture of experience and competency-based questions.

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