Paralegal - Commercial, Development and Investment (CDI)

About the role:

We have a great opportunity for a Paralegal to join our Commercial Development and Investment team within in our Real Estate Sector.

As a Paralegal you will be supporting a busy commercial development and investment team working on major acquisitions lettings (for both landlords and tenants) and development projects. The team is made up of senior lawyers junior fee earners and paralegals all collaborating closely across a wide range of clients and matters.

Were currently recruiting for two Paralegal rolesone based in our Birmingham office and the other in London. Were committed to supporting professional development and as part of these roles were looking to offer the opportunity to support and sponsor the successful candidates through the SQE route to qualification as an NQ if that is a route the successful candidate is interested in exploring.

About you:

Were seeking an individual who is proactive highly organised and detail-focused with excellent case management and IT skills. Ideally youll have some experience working in a legal environment though this isnt essential and a good understanding of the procedural aspects of commercial property transactionswhether gained through academic training or hands-on experience.

Youll be someone who thrives in a team builds strong relationships with colleagues and clients and remains calm under pressure.

To this role you will bring an enthusiastic reliable attitude to working ready to contribute to a busy and collaborative team.

What We Can Offer You:

The opportunity to work for a firm that has been recognised as one of best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work for 25 consecutive years.

Excellent benefits including:

• A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
• 25 days annual leave with the option to buy up to a weeks 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 with an onsite restaurant
• Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development

Equal Opportunities:

Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firmand 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 WLGwe 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 everyones potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.

If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description please contact Meg Astley at

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