Paralegal

By joining Sedgwick, you'll be part of something truly meaningful. It’s what our 33,000 colleagues do every day for people around the world who are facing the unexpected. We invite you to grow your career with us, experience our caring culture, and enjoy work-life balance. Here, there’s no limit to what you can achieve. Paralegal Job Location: Cardiff Job Type: Permanent Remuneration: Competitive salary taking into account skills, experience and qualifications.

We have a fantastic opportunity for Paralegals to join our small claims team in Cardiff. Sedgwick Legal Services (SLS) advises and handles disputes for major insurers, Lloyds syndicates, large corporates, utilities, and local authorities. This role focuses on property damage losses, including those caused by major fires, floods, building collapse, escape of water, and subsidence. Our Legal team leads from our Central Bristol Office, with colleagues in Cardiff and London. The role requires a hybrid working model with three days per week in our Bristol office.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Updating and maintaining the case management system with diary dates as required by the case.
• Assisting on claims for other fee earners in the team, carrying out preliminary investigations and evidence gathering, ensuring technical and expert evidence obtained by insurers and their agents is sufficient to prove causation, obtaining witness statements, and contacting relevant parties to obtain contractual and other relevant documentation.
• Assisting the Partners, Associates, and Team Leaders with complex litigated caseloads, assuming responsibility for client protocol compliance both on your own files and when working on task-based assignments for others.
• Creating and developing systems and procedures to manage and allow the function of SLS within Sedgwick’s digital systems, meeting and exceeding internal targets for time recording and billing.

The skills you will have when you apply

• Professional Qualifications: Preferably have a degree or previous relevant legal experience.
• Expertise: Knowledge of the litigation process is desirable.
• Contract and Tort Knowledge: Be interested in and have a good working knowledge of general contract and tortious principles.
• Insurance Law: Be interested in and willing to learn insurance-based property damage law.
• Technical Knowledge: Be interested in and willing to learn the technical aspects of construction and property claims investigations as required for the role.
• Team Orientation: Be team-orientated, with a willingness to share knowledge with and support other members of the team.
• Commercial Perspective: Have an ability to adopt a commercial perspective rather than an ‘academic’ approach to claims settlement.

The skills that will be developed once working

Comprehensive Training: You'll receive all the Sedgwick-specific training needed to excel in your role.

What we’ll give you for this role

Remuneration & more Competitive salary taking into account skills, experience and qualifications.

• A Self Invested Personal Pension Scheme (SIPP)
• You will join an appropriate incentive (bonus) scheme
• Holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays
• Flexible working from our office or your home
• Health & support Private healthcare plan (including pre-existing conditions)
• Life assurance
• Employee assistance programme for employee wellbeing
• Wellbeing and digital GP apps
• Group Income Protection
• Other benefits
• Voluntary flexible benefits – green car scheme, health assessment, travel insurance, dental cover, cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan
• Discounts on various products and services

Not only that, we are proud to have a zero tolerance policy towards discrimination of any kind regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital/ family status, race, religion, sex or sexual orientation.

After the closing date we will review all applications and may select some applicants for an interview (which may be virtual, or in-person).

Sedgwick is the world’s leading risk and claims administration partner, which helps clients thrive by navigating the unexpected. The company’s expertise, combined with the most advanced AI-enabled technology available, sets the standard for solutions in claims administration, loss adjusting, benefits administration, and product recall. With over 33,000 colleagues and 10,000 clients across 80 countries, Sedgwick provides unmatched perspective, caring that counts, and solutions for the rapidly changing and complex risk landscape.

For more, see sedgwick.com

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