Patent Paralegal - Tier 1 Firm.

Patent Paralegal

£35,000 - £42,000 +excellent benefits

London + hybrid working

The Person

You are currently a Patent Paralegal with a minimum of two years relevant experience, possessing IP professional services support exposure within a private practice, law firm or in-house environment. You should have acquired the following skillset:

* CIPA Administrator and/or CITMA Paralegal qualification
* Experience of working in a role where high levels of concentration and meticulous attention to detail are critical.
* Ability to work in a methodical manner and adopt a logical approach to individual tasks.
* Ability to move to different stages in the process to complete each task assigned.
* Ability to prioritise and manage fluctuating workloads, demands and deadlines.
* Ability to learn the preferences / requirements of multiple Paralegals / Patent Attorneys and clients and adapting approach to meet their needs.
* Writes and speaks with ease.
* Ability to develop strong working relationships with colleagues and clients


The Role

This is a key appointment in a busy legal support team, so you'll be complimenting an existing legal function with a rich diet of varied and interesting work:

* Give paralegal support including audio typing, copy typing, generating standard letters, and creating invoices for charging clients.
* Deal with incoming paralegal work without supervision.
* Keep reminders for each case of the Patent Attorney and ensure that these are kept up to date.
* Help to keep Patent Attorney diaries, booking appointments and knowing their whereabouts.
* Taking messages, checking e-mails, and making sure that anything requiring urgent attention is dealt with by another Patent Attorney.
* Delegating work to Paralegal Assistants and giving them ad hoc training.
* Having responsibility for case files.
* Meeting urgent legal deadlines.


The Company

You'll be joining a hugely reputable, award-winning Tier 1 firm who are genuinely progressive and outward looking as an organisation. Their culture is very team oriented and they pride themselves on the longevity of employee's careers as they invest in your support services career.

Client care is at the very core of how they operate, and this approach is cascaded down from Partners, via Associates to all employees. They are a wholly inclusive private practice who advocate talent attraction from a rich variety of different backgrounds and experience.

The firm offer a very transparent, fulfilling and meritocratic career path with benefits to include annual bonuses, private healthcare, generous pension contributions and holiday entitlement. Theirs is a very rewarding environment in which to work, and wholly indicative of how well they tend to retain talent in their organisation.

If you feel you have the requisite skills and experience, then please contact James Dawes for more information:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesdawesaspire/

We Are Aspire Ltd are a Disability Confident Commited employer