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Immigration Paralegal

Paralegal Job at Monarch Solicitors

We are recruiting for paralegals with acute commercial awareness, excellent written English, and who have completed the LPC or the BPTC course. Experience is desirable but not necessary.

The Opportunity:

You will have a rare opportunity to take charge and develop all aspects of the immigration department and handle all the firms contentious and non-contentious work.

You will be exposed to top-quality work, developing both your legal knowledge and commercial awareness, with full responsibility and early client access.

This opportunity will suit someone who is entrepreneurial, commercially focused, self-driven and does not require supervision for day to day conduct of case work.

Qualifications and Skills:

We are ideally looking for a paralegal with experience. Although training can be provided.

The Ideal Candidate:

LPC/BPTC Graduate
Highly conversant with immigration law and services
Ability to draft all the usual documents
Ability to maintain a case list and diary for each stage of the process
Strong commercial awareness for opportunities for the firm and the clients
Ability to take new enquiries from potential clients and engage new work and clients
Ability to multi task, wear different ‘hats’ and deal with competing priorities without delay
Focus on results over and above the client’s expectations and experience of delivering exceptional results for the client
Ability to work to deadlines
Ability to maintain a personal yet professional relationship with clients
Desire to run a complex and varied workload
Interested in developing the department and to win new work
Must be self-motivated, driven and does not require supervision for day to day conduct of work a complex and varied workload
Ability to quickly get to grips with new areas of law and hit the ground running
Experience of delivering exceptional customer/client service Self-discipline to take responsibility of own work and deadlines and deadlines and to progress cases quickly and efficiently
Strong IT skills to use case management system
Ability to time record and mange billable time on files
Ability to ensure clients are regularly billed, client debts are kept to a bare minimum
Ability to time record using the firms case management software and bill to monthly targets
Ability to assist in the promotion and marketing of the firm’s services via internal/external networking events, presentations and online articles
Excellent attention to detail and continuously striving for self-improvement and development
Personality traits required: High personal standards, ability to work under pressure, driven, adaptable, enthusiastic, proactive, team player, commercial awareness and can do attitude
Excellent written and verbal communication skills

What’s In It For You:

Company pension scheme
Small team in lovely city centre offices
Early access to good quality work and clients
Exposure to marketing and business development
Exposure to various legal disciplines –you won’t be pigeon holed into one area of law
You won’t be competing with hundreds of others for progression within the firm
The more successful our small firm becomes, the more opportunities there will be for you
No glass ceilings – the role will become what you make it

The Firm:

Monarch Solicitors are a niche and respected, award winning commercial law firm based near Spinningfields, Manchester. We are 2 minutes walking distance from Salford central and about 10 minutes walking distance of both Piccadilly and Victoria Stations.

Our small but client focused team has become a recognised brand within the Manchester commercial and property law market and have a significant following in the Chinese market.