About Us

At Clyde & Co, we're leaders in the Casualty market. Built on scale, unparalleled expertise, and a new vision for making the most of AI, data and technology, our Casualty practice is the biggest in the UK. With 480 partners, 2400 lawyers, and 3200 legal professionals in over 60 locations on 6 continents, our reach is truly global.

Based at our fabulous offices in Manchester, our incredibly varied workload includes £multi-million cases that take us from our desks to courtrooms across the UK. It's a chance to learn from true industry experts and experienced people at all levels of our business - all committed to helping you build a successful law career.

The Team

Our market-leading catastrophic injury specialists are trusted around the world by general and specialist insurers corporations, and health and public sector bodies to defend their most serious and highest value cases.

We handle the whole range of complex and high value claims including fatality, acquired brain injury, spinal cord damage, amputation, chronic pain, the funding of long-term care and rehabilitation.

The Role

The role, based in Manchester, would be assisting lead lawyers and partners in our London office in every aspect of their cases. With cases involving such serious injury the team adopt a very forensic approach to liability and valuation aspects of the case. It would be assisting with those, instructing counsel and medical experts, taking statements, assessing evidence, reviewing medical records, attending conferences with counsel and court etc. Every case is different and all really interesting. We act for most insurers and have team recognised for their technical excellence.

At the same time, we would focus on your development and training generally so as to ensure you are progressing against objectives. We have fabulous offices in Manchester. Our paralegals come in 2 days a week and work from home the others.

Key Responsibilities

Your role will involve assisting the Fee Earner with all aspects of the day to day management of claims, everything from assisting with liability enquiries, obtaining and reviewing medical records and reports, drafting witness statements, preparing instructions to Experts and Counsel, preparing Counsel/Court bundles and any general admin duties.

Essential Skills & Experience

Applicants must have excellent communication and organisational skills, along with the ability to work well under pressure and to strict deadlines. Knowledge of the litigation process would be useful alongside some exposure to assisting on Catastrophic Injury work.

Paralegal Academy

Joining the Catastrophic Injury and Large team within our Casualty practice means you will be part of our Paralegal Academy. The training provided in the academy will be tailored to varying levels of experience, so all our Paralegals are supported when it comes to their development and career progression.

There is also the opportunity to apply for our Casualty SQE qualification programme once you have completed the required amount of work experience in the firm.

Our Values

Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for our clients and our firm. We:

• Work as one We are a globally connected team of talented people who act with a firm-first mentality to achieve success
• Excel with clients We aim high and challenge ourselves to deliver unique excellence for our clients, keeping them at the centre of everything we do
• Celebrate difference We help each other to be at our best and believe our differences result in greater achievement
• Act boldly We seek new opportunities, take action and learn as we go, recognising that curiosity drives our development and contributes to growth

What We Offer

We are always looking to recognise and reward our people for the work they do. Here are just a few of the benefits you will have access to, as part of our team

• Competitive salary
• Hybrid working - 2 days in the office, 3 days at home.
• Pension scheme
• Group income protection
• Maternity and paternity pay
• Holiday purchase
• Season ticket loan
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Gym subsidy

This is the job description as constituted at present; however the Firm reserves the right to reasonably amend it in accordance with the changing needs of the business.

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