Paralegal Housing, Development and Regeneration (HDR)

About the role:

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 youll manage your own infrastructure matters liaising with clients and solicitors reviewing and negotiating agreements and deeds and ensuring all necessary consents are in place. Youll progress transactions through to completion and handle a high volume of work efficiently and accurately.

About you:

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.

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 26 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 in the heart of Birmingham City Centre with an onsite restaurant
• Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development

Equal Opportunities:

Gowling WLG is committed bothto 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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