We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Paralegal to join our Clinical Negligence team at Enable Law. Enable Law is part of the Foot Anstey group and is one of the UK’s leading specialist medical negligence, personal injury, and mental capacity law firms. Working both remotely and within our friendly Exeter office, you will be joining a team who really make a difference in their clients’ quality of life.At Enable Law our people, like our values, are at the very heart of our business. You will be a central member of the team heavily involved in a variety of work for our clients. We aim to provide our employees with a rewarding career progression opportunities and work environment and an attractive and flexible benefits scheme as part of supporting the importance of work/life balance. What you’ll do

The role will support lawyers across the firm in the initial stages of a claim to include setting up of the file, obtaining and reviewing medical records.
Completing tasks that arise in relation to the clinical negligence pre-action protocol stage.
Drafting relevant documentation and providing legal and administrative support to senior lawyers
Carrying out research into quantum, medicine, legislation, and case law
Supporting the team with file management

What we’re looking for

Highly organised individual who is able to manage deadlines.
Experience of dealing with client information with tact and sensitivity, and able to discuss matters with clients in an empathetic manner.
Highly flexible approach and the ability to work well and flourish in a team environment.
Excellent all round communication skills including the capability to develop and maintain strong client relationships.
Excellent IT skills with an in-depth knowledge of MS Outlook, Word, and Excel
Great time management and organisational ability

Why Enable Law?Enable Law is one of the UK’s leading specialist medical negligence, personal injury, and mental capacity law firms. Our team of over 80 individuals aims to provide a high-quality service in a friendly and approachable way. We work for clients across the UK and have offices in seven locations across the Southwest, South Coast and London. We consider our people to be our most valuable asset and therefore, offer continual opportunities for support and professional development.Meet the team: https://www.enablelaw.com/meet-the-team/Enable Law are a part of Foot Anstey group. Foot Anstey LLP is one of the UK’s fastest growing law firms, Foot Anstey believes in helping our clients and people achieve their ambitions, unlocking new and exciting opportunities. Our team of business and legal advisors are motivated by understanding clients’ goals and collaborating with them and other advisers to deliver solutions. By becoming our clients’ most trusted advisor, we are enabling them to achieve their ambitions. How we do it is just as important as what we do. Our values define the way we act with our clients and one another every day, and because of these we think our culture and environment sets us apart.Over our history we’ve grown from a high-street firm to a significant regional and national player working with leading brands and individuals predominantly across six key sectors: Private Equity, Retail & Consumer, Energy & Infrastructure, Islamic Finance, Developers and Private Wealth. Our strategy of gaining market share through meeting clients’ needs, investing in and developing high quality talent and using technology and innovation to enhance our services has led to significant growth. We now operate from nine locations: Truro, Plymouth, Exeter, Taunton, Bristol, Southampton and London, as well as a ‘hub’ base in Oxford and Manchester.Our people are central to our success, in every part of the business. We actively support our employees to achieve their aspirations through offering meaningful careers with balanced rewards, which have been carefully designed to focus on personal wellbeing. We offer continual opportunities for support and professional development through our Business Skills Academy and Digital Skills Academy and believe in empowering each other to achieve and strive to create a progressive and inclusive working environment. Being forward-thinking, we are open to discussing flexible working patterns for all of our vacancies, with over 40% of our existing employees having a permanent flexible working pattern. In addition, our impressive suite of flexible benefits will enable you to prioritise what matters most to you.Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is integral to delivering our strategy, and we were delighted to be awarded the National Equality Standard for a second time. We consider this to be right at the heart of our priorities and goes way beyond our policies – it’s something we consider across everything we do, from the make-up of our client teams, encouraging staff to reach their potential, through to our leadership. We aim to support our clients and our people to achieve their goals, regardless of background, gender, race, beliefs, sexuality or other non-work related factors. We champion aspiration and encourage it in everyone that works with us. As such we actively encourage applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any characteristics protected by law. If you apply for this role, you may be encouraged to answer our diversity and social mobility monitoring questions, so please be reassured that any answers you provide will remain entirely anonymous and confidential and will in no way impact your application.

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Paralegal – Clinical Negligence