Paralegal Apprenticeship 2025 - Manchester
Addleshaw Goddard, City Centre, Manchester
Paralegal Apprenticeship 2025 - Manchester
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Addleshaw Goddard, City Centre, Manchester
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted today, 4 Dec | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 2a19b01ed28048deb6fe23179284cf20
Full Job Description
- Study: Towards a Paralegal qualification, with the possibility of exemptions for further legal studies.
- Experience: Opportunities in different teams, including Innovation and Legal Technology.
- Future Prospects: Opportunities for career progression, including solicitor apprenticeship and further studies. Whilst training, as a Paralegal Apprentice, you will support the Paralegals and Senior Paralegals within the Transactions Services Team (TST), as well as the fee earners across the Firm with routine legal tasks. Paralegal Apprentices will have the opportunity to experience different sub-teams within the TST over the course of the apprenticeship and will have the option to apply to do a seat in the Innovation and Legal Technology team, and/or the TST Scotland team. This is a busy role where work may come from any of the Firm's Groups and, as a result, a Paralegal Apprentice will work on a wide variety of assignments. The complexity of work and responsibility within the TST will develop over the course of the apprenticeship. Work Assignments Include:
- Document assessment for disputes.
- Drafting legal documents.
- Quality checks on legal documents.
- Creating trial bundles.
- Due diligence for corporate exercises.
- Transactional support in Corporate, Banking, or Real Estate.]
- Managing electronic data sites, uploading and ordering documents, and liaising with third parties. In addition to the above, all Paralegal Apprentices are expected to participate in business engagement and team development activities or initiatives relevant to their role to identify ways in which the TST can support the Firm in a better way. They are also expected to become familiar with and promote the use of legal technology for routine and/or project work. We are proud to be celebrating our 11th year of recruiting legal apprentices with the TST, and we look forward to continuing this success., 1. Eligibility Screening 2. Online application 3. Situational Judgement Test (SJJT) 4. Video/Voice interview Final stage: Successful candidates will be invited to an in-person assessment centre in the Manchester office, to be held on 17th & 18th February 2025. We will support with travel arrangements. The assessment centre consists of: Competency based interview, Written task, and a Group exercise. Addleshaw Goddard work with RARE recruitment during the application process. This aims to promote diversity and review grades in a socio-economic context - providing valuable insight into the context in which grades were achieved.
- 5 GCSEs at grade 4/C or above including English and Maths.
- 3 A-levels at grades CCC or above, or equivalent. You need to demonstrate an ambition to succeed in a legal career and have an appetite to learn and a commitment to studying a 2-year programme whilst balancing working full-time., There is no Addleshaw Goddard type. We are looking for authentic personalities who are aspiring, confident and committing to becoming great lawyers. We want people who want to lean alongside the best in the profession, bringing their energy and passion to our team and our clients.
- Aspiring individuals with a passion for law.
- Skills: Communication, attention to detail, commercial awareness, teamwork, career motivation and knowledge of Addleshaw Goddard.
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Are you passionate about a career in a commercial law firm? Do you want to work for a Firm where you are valued, encouraged, and challenged to fulfil your potential? Our Paralegal Apprenticeship will provide you with invaluable and varied work experience whilst studying towards a legal qualification - all whilst earning a salary. At the end of the apprenticeship, you will be promoted to the role of Paralegal where a variety of further progression opportunities are available to you.,