Marston Group Ltd have an exciting opportunity for a Paralegal / Legal Officer to join their team based in Epping. Offering a competitive salary of £25k per annum. This is a great opportunity to join one of the biggest Enforcement companies in the UK.

As our Paralegal / Legal Officer it will be your responsibility to support the Head of Legal to ensure that Marston and its associated companies, the Marston Group, have access to effective, creative and robust legal advice to support and meet their legal and business needs by providing your own legal advice and support the Marston Group with supervision. 
Within the Paralegal / Legal Officer role you will be have a varied caseload of high quality and wide variety of responsibilities, these include;
Core duties and responsibilities as our Paralegal / Legal Officer:
- Under supervision, provide timely, high quality and innovative legal advice and support to Marston.

- Under supervision, provide timely, high quality and innovative legal advice and support to the Marston Group.
- Under supervision be personally responsible for the preparation, care and conduct of case work including tribunal and court matters, subject access requests and other data protection matters
- Provide briefings on legal issues as directed by the Head of Legal. 
- In appropriate cases, represent the Marston Group at meetings, corporate project teams, tribunals and hearings, including providing advocacy in straightforward matters
- Under supervision, prepare and negotiate straightforward contracts, agreements, notices and other legal documents
- Under supervision, procure legal advice from external solicitors and barristers and manage those relationships to deliver effective cost efficient legal support and advice to the business
- To promote and protect Marston Group’s interests in all communication and assist the Head of Legal to identify and manage risk in the business
- To support the Head of Legal in the efficient and effective monitoring of the performance of the legal service within the Marston Group
Person specification 
- The ability to assimilate large amounts of complex information quickly and accurately to provide clear advice and direction on the most appropriate course of action
- Ability to produce briefings and documents relating to legal concepts and cases in a clear and effective manner for a variety of audiences
- Excellent oral communication skills including the ability to communicate effectively with different audiences and display confidence in presentation and advocacy 
- Ability to propose creative solutions to problems
- The ability to draft documents in a logical and accurate manner
- The ability to prioritise work to meet demanding workloads and to deal with different types of work from a variety of sources
- Be a positive member of the legal team and work constructively with people in different disciplines across the business
- Good ICT skills

If you feel you have the skills and experience needed to become our Paralegal / Legal Officer please click ‘Apply’ now.