Job Description

Basis

Full time

Job category/type

Paralegal

Date posted

08/07/2025

Job reference

HJ0376

This vacancy is open to direct applications only, no approaches via recruitment agencies will be accepted at this time.

Background

Our team of expert military solicitors ensure service personnel, and their families have access to the specialist legal advice they need.

This role will focus on injury claims where service personnel have not been adequately protected from illness or injury.

The role

We are currently looking for a Paralegal to join the military department.

Duties will include:

attending legal clinics in various locations sign posting clients to relevant legal services


assisting in the inspection of disclosure documents dealing with CFAs and funding dealing with telephone enquiries from clients reviewing medical records preparing of witness statements preparing instructions to experts


This role will ideally suit an individual with a law degree or similar academic achievement.

The ideal candidate will be IT literate with good interpersonal skills as the role will involve a lot of client contact, in person and over the telephone. The ability to work well in a team and excellent organizational skills are needed to be successful in this role.

Life at Hugh James

We never shy away from a challenge

We are a leading, full-service UK law firm. Since our beginning, we have been led by the things that matter. We care about fighting for the right outcomes. Solving the seemingly unsolvable. Protecting businesses, individuals and livelihoods. Supporting our people, our communities. Safeguarding our planet. Looking for a way forward? At Hugh James, challenges - of all sizes - are readily accepted.

The Hugh James difference

Our law firm has always been guided by the idea that self-belief is just as important as skillset. Our pursuit of righting wrongs and protecting what important keeps us driving forwards. It in our roots! We won stop until we find the answers; the outcomes that are needed.

We are focused on the work we do, the business we run, and our culture. Our entrepreneurial spirit has taken us from humble beginnings to a strong presence across the UK with offices in Cardiff, London, Manchester, Southampton and Plymouth - servicing clients from businesses, individuals and banks to public sector organisations, property companies, education establishments and utilities providers. Our collegiate culture, our forward-looking ethos, our values serve to make us bigger, better, bolder than ever before.

A positive force in the community

Our work with charities on a local and national level plays a huge part in our day-to-day lives. We work with a large range of charities, some of which we support through fundraising, donations, volunteering and others we partner with where our areas of work cross paths. Staff, clients everyone comes together through a shared passion to do good in the community and support those in need.

Some of our benefits on offer include:

Minimum of 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Two Corporate Social Responsibility days

Birthday day off

Death in service equivalent to twice annual salary

Auto enrolment pension scheme

Hybrid working

Employee Assistance Programme

Discounts for local businesses

Professional fees paid (subject to requirement for your role)

Employee recruitment incentive scheme

Hugh James is an equal opportunities and disability confident committed employer.

Thank you for taking the time to consider this opportunity. If you have questions, please contact Stephanie Williams

We reserve the right to close our vacancies earlier than the given deadline if we receive sufficient applications for the role.