Paralegal

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Employer: Association of British Insurers

Location: London EC3N/Hybrid (40% time spent in the office)

Salary: £30,000 - £35,000 plus benefits

Closing date: 26 Mar 2025

Sector: Charity and Not for Profit, Insurance, Legal

Role: Assistant

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time

We're looking for a Paralegal to support our Legal team in coordinating our legal activities and providing administrative input and support to the team and wider ABI policy work. This includes engaging with ABI Members and Associates, consumers, government, and regulatory authorities.

We are open to flexible, part-time and/or job share working - please let us know if this would be your preference. We work in a hybrid way with at least 40% of time in the office.

What's the job?

• Support our Legal team (comprising Director and General Counsel, Assistant Director, Head of Legal Services, and Legal Services Adviser) in ensuring legal risks are effectively managed and mitigated.
• With oversight, draft responses to straightforward legal queries raised by Members (and their legal counsel) and non-legal colleagues within the ABI.
• Provide support in drawing up and reviewing lower-risk and lower-value legal contracts.
• Take ownership of the contracts tracker and contracts signing process.
• Review, analyze, and summarize court judgments.
• Conduct ad hoc research into legal issues and queries.
• Support with preparations for the General Counsel Forum, e.g., help with preparing papers and the management of sponsors and meeting attendees.
• Help coordinate, draft, and edit our quarterly Legal Newsletter.
• Provide general administrative support to the Legal team, including arranging meetings and note-taking.
• Assist in developing and supporting ABI internal compliance policies.

What skills are we looking for?

• Legal background - you have academic qualifications in law and ideally, some prior experience in a relevant role.
• Good understanding of law - you can understand and summarize legal documents and concepts and want to expand your knowledge.
• Organization - you're proactive and can navigate a busy workload and maintain excellent attention to detail.
• Professional - you maintain confidentiality and exercise good judgment in confidential and sensitive scenarios.
• Communication - you take a proactive approach to managing internal and have excellent written communication skills.

We encourage you to apply, even if you don't have all the skills above right now.

Throughout the interview and assessment process, we will be looking for you to demonstrate our values; We are Brave; We take Ownership; We are Appreciative; We are Human and We are Curious.

Inclusion matters to us

We welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds and we run our application process in a way that removes bias as much as possible. As well as asking for a CV, we'll ask an application question which is relevant to the role and the skills we need to ensure everyone has equal opportunity to demonstrate their suitability.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and are committed to making adjustments to help you perform at your best in our recruitment process. Additionally, where practicable, we offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum requirements for a role. To discuss, please contact

To find out more

You can find lots more information on our careers page, including details of our generous benefits package and who we are as an organisation.