Housing Paralegal

We are a reputable practice committed to helping and contributing to our community by achieving justice and positive results for our clients. We are committed to providing an excellent service and have taken on some ground-breaking work.

We are specialists in Housing, Civil Litigation, Immigration, Conveyancing, Personal Injury, and Family Law.

We are an expanding firm with innovative and progressive policies and practices. We also have a branch in Birmingham.

If you are a candidate with existing Housing experience and you have run a caseload of your own files with extensive experience in handling all kinds of housing matters, particularly legal aid matters i.e. submitting applications on Legal Aid Portal on behalf of clients as well as legal aid billing, then we are definitely interested in hearing from you.

About the role

You will handle casework of your own files with supervision from senior members of staff, manage clients' expectations and negotiate settlements and offers.

The successful candidates must have knowledge of billing client files and conducting work in private as well as legal aid cases. A high level of verbal and written communication skills, as well as competency in IT skills are required.

CORE TASKS (not an exhaustive list):

• Dealing with a range of public and private housing cases including Homelessness; Disrepair; Eviction; Possession; Property Ownership Disputes.


• Dealing with landlord/tenant issues, covering various areas of law from criminal damage to breach of contract. Forfeiture, unlawful eviction.


• Drafting correspondence and documents


• Manage own work, billing on Leap and maintaining accurate time, costing.