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PARALEGAL - Business Recovery & Insolvency   This job has expired Job id: 28207161
Location: Manchester, Lancashire
Salary: £19,000 Plus excellent benefits
Company:Prestige Executive
Job type: Permanent
Date posted: unspecified


Description: * * PRESTIGE GROUP - LEGAL SERVICES * *Our client is a top 50 full service law firm with offices in three key commercial centres outside of the capital Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds. An excellent opportunity is available in the Manchester office for a Paralegal to join their Business Recovery & Insolvency department. The BRI team provides a full service range of advice arising from the problems caused by financial under performance and distress. The team regularly acts for banks and all of the major accountancy firms in their role as business advisors or office holders in corporate and personal insolvency. Due to an influx of new personal insolvency work into the team, our client is now seeking to recruit a Paralegal to assist the senior members of the team with their caseloads. This role will be primarily focussed on bankruptcy work and the successful applicant would become a ‘specialist’ in this area, undertaking all the process-driven tasks within a bankruptcy case.Duties and responsibilities will include:§To register Trustee in Bankruptcy interests property at HM Land Registry§To prepare applications to court and supporting witness statements on issues arising within a bankruptcy§To undertake legal research on Bankruptcy related issues§Generally to assist senior members of the team on Bankruptcy matters and some corporate insolvency workPreferably with Legal Executive or Legal Practice Course qualification, previous experience as a Paralegal, ideally within Insolvency, Debt Recovery, Banking Litigation or Commercial Litigation would be a distinct advantage.The successful candidate will be: §Positive with a can-do approach§Able to work on own initiative, prioritising and working to deadlines§Organised and methodical§IT literate§An excellent communicator


Contact: Rebecca Smith
Reference: job/AFRASCO

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