Paralegal Development and Regeneration; HDR

We have a great opportunity for an individual to join our Housing, Development and Regeneration (HDR) team within our Real Estate Group (REG) as a Paralegal based in Birmingham. As a Paralegal, you'll manage your own infrastructure matters, liaising with clients and solicitors, reviewing and negotiating agreements and deeds, and ensuring all necessary consents are in place. You'll progress transactions through to completion and handle a high volume of work efficiently and accurately.

We are looking for an individual who demonstrates a solid understanding of our systems, a strong willingness to learn the process of managing infrastructure agreements, and the ability to handle multiple matters in an organised and timely manner. This experience will include applying sound technical and theoretical land law knowledge in practice, using a case-management system effectively, and bringing experience from a legal or business environment.

You should be confident in dealing with clients independently or as part of a team and ideally have undertaken and completed the Legal Practice Course.

Excellent benefits, including:

• A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
• 25 days annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave
• Private medical insurance, and the option to add family members
• A generous pension allowance
• Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
• The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
• Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes
• A range of health and wellbeing programmes
• State of the art offices, in the heart of Birmingham City Centre, with an onsite restaurant
• Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development

Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.

At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.