Complex Injury Paralegal
1 day ago
Southampton
Keoghs LLP | Complex Injury TeamFull-time | 35 hours per week | Monday–Friday Are you looking to develop your career in complex and high-value personal injury work?Keoghs is looking for a dedicated Complex Injury Paralegal to join our successful and growing Complex Injury Team in Southampton. This is an exciting opportunity to gain hands-on experience assisting with large loss, catastrophic injury, and high-value multi-track claims—including multi-million-pound brain, spinal, amputation, and fatal injury cases, as well as large loss claims up to £1m. If you’re currently working in a personal injury paralegal or support role and want to advance your career in complex injury litigation, we’d love to hear from you.#INDUKI What You’ll Be Doing Working closely with our Lead Lawyer and wider Complex Injury Team, you’ll support the progression of high-value personal injury matters from instruction through to resolution. Duties will include: File & Case Support • Preparing, filing, serving, and diarising basic court documents and hearing dates, • Liaising with experts, counsel, insureds, and witnesses, • Coordinating conferences, hearings, joint settlement meetings, and expert appointments, • Managing CRU registrations, updates, and settlement notifications, • Reviewing medical records, photographic evidence, and surveillance footage, • Drafting summaries, mandates, and applications for records and police reports, • Redacting documents to maintain privilege and GDPR compliance With experience and supervision, you’ll progress to tasks including: • Preparing instructions to counsel, • Drafting witness statements and liaising with witnesses, • Preparing and reviewing disclosure, • Attending client meetings and preparing notes, • Minimum of 5 GCSEs (grade 5/C or above), • Demonstrable interest in law (e.g. LPC, CILEX, or experience in a legal environment), • Experience of the litigation process—ideally in personal injury, • Strong communication and telephone skills, • Confident, organised, and able to manage competing priorities, • High attention to detail—especially when tasks are repetitive, • Good IT, literacy, and administrative skills, • A proactive team player with the flexibility to support the needs of the team, • Team Commitment – Values collaboration and others’ perspectives, • Resilience – Calm under pressure, • Growth Mindset – Keen to develop and improve, • Adaptability – Embraces change positively, • Client-Focused Thinking – Adds value through service quality, • Commercial Awareness – Understands broader business implicationsJob Benefits, • Davies Incentive Plan, • 25 days holiday per year which increases with level of service (opportunity to buy & sell 3 days), • Simply Health Care Cash Plan, • WeCare – 24/7 online GP, mental health support and virtual wellbeing covering a whole host of topics to do with health, mental health, wellbeing & healthy living and financial & legal wellbeing, • Death In Service – after 1 years’ service, • Pension Contribution based 5% Employee / 3% Employer, • Cycle to Work Scheme*, • Tech Scheme*, • Season Ticket Loan*, • Gym Flex*, • Access to Online Discount Sites, • Discounted Gourmet Society Membership, • Discounted Tickets for Merlin Attractions nationwide