About the role
Make a Real Impact
Bevan Brittan is a leading commercial law firm. Alongside our recognised expertise in housing, local government, and health and social care, we are specialists in the construction, energy and resource management, higher education and financial services sectors.
Supported by our valued business services professionals, our award-winning and growing legal teams provide almost 2,000 organisations with commercial, corporate, property, finance, regulatory, employment and litigation (commercial and clinical negligence) legal and advisory services.
As a responsible business, we embrace four values: Relationships, Reputation, Responsible and Results. These give us a sense of purpose. They influence the decisions we make and how we work with each other. Importantly, they motivate us to deliver meaningful outcomes for our clients and the communities that we're part of.
Consistently recognised as one of The Times Best Law Firms and highly ranked across the legal directories, we are proud of our hard-earned reputation. Our 2025/26 financial results confirmed both revenue and profit growth for a thirteenth consecutive year, ensuring our ability to continue investing in our people.
Looking to the future, we're targeting ambitious growth and success. And we're looking for the best people to be part of it.
Join a team of experts and progressive thinkers Housing is one of our core markets and focus areas for growth. The Bevan Brittan Housing Management team has experienced significant growth over the last couple of years and is now one of the largest housing management practices in the country. Our track record of delivering high quality advice means that growth is set to continue, with a number of major tender wins adding to an already impressive list of clients based across the country and nationally.
We advise a considerable number of registered providers, ranging from many of the top ten largest providers in the country at one end of the spectrum to smaller, specialist providers at the other and everything in between. We assist our clients to tackle anti-social behaviour, tenancy fraud, unlawful occupation, disrepair claims, access issues and rent arrears as well as assisting them to manage changes to legislation and the consequential effects that changes in government policy have on their organisations.
Whilst the majority of our work is for housing associations, we also increasingly provide housing management services to a range of other types of organisation including local authorities, care providers, the NHS, universities, charities, and private landlords.
The role
We have an excellent opportunity for a Paralegal, ideally with some litigation legal experience, to join our team. The role will involve supporting the Solicitors within the team with their caseload, but will also offer the opportunity to build a personal caseload of appropriate cases. The clients you will be advising will mostly be housing associations, local authorities and specialist supported accommodation providers. Full support and supervision will be provided. The successful candidate will work very closely with our dynamic and passionate team of Housing Management lawyers to advance cases to court or to settlement. The work will be varied, challenging, interesting and often urgent. Examples of the types of work that the Paralegal will need to undertake are as follows:
Ensuring compliance with litigation deadlines
Drafting County Court claims
Preparing witness evidence
Preparing disclosure lists and documents
Liaising with Counsel, opponents and the Courts
Preparing trial bundle indexes and bundles
Drafting costs schedules for hearings
Arranging case conferences, witness meetings and conferences with Counsel
The role will also include contact with clients to take instructions and progress cases.
What we are looking for from you
The successful candidate will have the following experience
A genuine interest in social housing
Competent in all IT applications, including Word, Excel and Outlook
Strong attention to detail and a clear communication style (both written and verbal)
Punctual with good time management skills and the ability to manage and prioritise a range of tasks
Commitment to good customer service
Good empathy skills and the ability to deal with a range of different personality types when working with clients and witnesses
Commitment to meeting or exceeding personal targets
Willing to listen and learn
Good team player with a willingness to assist colleagues
Self-motivated, enthusiastic, committed and approachable
Ability to remain calm and professional when under pressure
Topics
- Hybrid
- Leeds