Apprentice paralegal Review

my role is to assist the fee earners with client related matters. This could be attending client meetings, drafting legal documents, communicating with clients regarding their matter or communicating with externals for example the insurance companies on behalf of the client. We can hybrid working so I work from home and in the office. Sometimes I am light on work but I use this time to study.

I have learnt how to draft several legal documents and tailor them to the client needs. This requires certain words and phrases to be used which I have learnt over time. Speaking to clients and other externals has improved my professional communication skills. Lastly, working for seveal people means you have to organise and manage your time well to meet the needs of everyone and move things around if an urgent task comes up.

I have really enjoy my time at Irwin Mitchell LLP. I have made some friends for life with such a big apprentice network. I feel supported by everyone in my team and I feel like everyone wants me to suceed. I find my role very interesting and I feel like I am helping imrpove the clients life after a difficult time.

My team gave me one day off a week to complete my studies. I had 6 week meeting with my coach to go over the work I have submitted and ask her any questions. If I had any in the meantime I could just drop her an email or ask for another team meetings. They were always happy to help.

Irwin Mitchell were very flexible about my study days. We have a knowledge hub and subscribe to other legal knowledge hubs so I am able to expand on my learnig and learn in different ways. We have internal knowledge updates about the changes in the law or any landmark cases we should know about.

I had 6 week meetings with my coach and in some modules met with my teacher every 2 weeks. It is very independant learning so if you are not motived to complete the work you will not have anyone following up with you. I could email my coach any questions I had and I got a responce quickly. I was given quite a bit of informaiton at the start which was overwhelming but once I got going I started to understand it better. My exam body, CILEx, do not release any passpapers which I found difficult as I was not sure what to expect with the exams.

I got to learn about my area of law which helped me grow my knowledge in my day to day job. It helped me expand on my soft skills like communication and time mangement. We had 12 modules to help develop our skills which is required when being a paralegal. Alongside our modules I learnt about my area of law.

We have a Christmas party and other socials in the year like meals, teambuilding and away days. We normally go and celebrate the end of the tax year. As a team we are quite close which is nice. There is not a massive budget for social events so normally you have to pay for them yourself minus the Christmas party.

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Irwin Mitchell LLP have been so supportive of me and would like to be progess in my role. The company has a flexible hour policy which means you can have a good work life balance so you do not miss out on other events in your life. There is also lots of other benefits to the role e.g. healthcare.

Really understand why you would like to join Irwin Mitchell LLP, what is it about the company you like and how does that suit your personality, what is it about the role you like and what skills from the role would you like to grow and work on. Show you are passionate to work for Irwin Mitchell.