Paralegal (Telecoms)

This full time, (35 hrs a week), London based paralegal role is to work within our market leading commercial real estate and licensing department who deal with three main sectors. These are commercial property, licensing and the telecoms sector.

As a paralegal in the telecoms team, your main focus will be supporting two partners on contentious and non-contentious work centred around ‘The Telecoms Code’. 

Day to day tasks will include:

• Carrying out title checks and preparing title reports.  
• Preparing a first draft of reports pre the service of notices under the Telecoms Code.
• Drafting and serving notices under the Telecoms Code.
• Instructing Counsel on pleadings.
• Preparing bundles.
• Dealing with filing of claims and filing of documents whilst in proceedings.
• Dealing with service of documents.
• Attending meetings and hearings where required.
• Helping with trial preparation. 
• Formatting and tidying up documents.
• Assisting in the preparation of reports for the client. 
• Running conflict searches, setting up new clients / matters and making sure that client information is up to date.
• General ad hoc tasks to support the team.

This role would be an ideal starting point for someone entering their first fee-earning role as a paralegal. Alternatively, you may well have some previous paralegal experience in a real estate team or telecoms team (telecoms experience not essential). 

The main thing that we will be looking for is that you have a passion for providing first class client care, thrive in a busy work environment that involves a lot of time sensitive deadlines (including court deadlines), and enjoy organising your day around an intellectually stimulating and varied workload.

In return, you will have the opportunity to work on a high quality caseload for some of the largest telecoms businesses in the UK, supported by an inclusive team who support each other with good humour and a focus on a shared goal. 

Application review

Your profile will be screened by a member of the WS recruitment team. If your CV is shortlisted, you will be invited to have a short call with our Recruitment Manager, Ash Evans, to discuss your interest in the vacancy. No AI is used in our application screening process! Every candidate who applies to this role will be told if they have been successful or not in moving to the next stage.

Interview (in person at our London office)

At this stage, you will get the opportunity to meet the head of our commercial real estate and licensing department and the partner who heads the telecoms team. This is will be a good opportunity to ask role specific questions and understand more about how this role fits into the team. 

Every candidate who reaches this stage will be offered the chance to have a feedback call with our Recruitment Manager to understand why they weren't offered the position, so that you can use this feedback to help with other job applications.

Offer of employment

If you are successful and accept our offer of employment, we will submit your details to our background screening company (Giant), who will conduct a series of background checks. Once these have been completed and we have separately validated your proof of right to work in the UK, a start date can be agreed, and your onboarding schedule can be planned.