Paralegal - Healthcare

This role offers an excellent opportunity for someone who is considering their first step into Healthcare & Sports litigation. The role will be to work directly alongside two of the Healthcare & Sports Partners on a range of matters. The successful candidate will be required to deal with delegated tasks on non–delegated, hourly rate, high profile cases where Keoghs act for a large number of interested parties.

2 chargeable hours per day. Fielding telephone calls and dealing with general queries; together with liaising with parties involved in claims including the policy holders, insurers, experts, and witnesses. Reviewing huge volumes of medical records to provide a factual note of the evidence/chronology.

Use of Collaborate and/or Bundledocs to upload documents, providing access to clients, experts, and Counsel. Maintaining Tracker with details of new proceedings and new involvements so as to keep the digital file current. Creating indexes and bundles using Bundledocs; and/or preparing documents digitally for use by Counsel and experts.

Using Foxit to split files and save into Tracker document library. Arranging conferences with client and counsel and experts; obtaining availability for hearings, JSMs and trials. Liaising with witnesses including their availability for conferences and trials.

Registering and updating CRU, notifying CRU of settlement. Legal research. Ad hoc legal tasks.

Assisting with billing queries.