About the role
We are excited to offer an excellent opportunity for a Paralegal to join our Non-Contentious Construction team in either our Birmingham or London office.
Job Description
We are seeking a Paralegal who enjoys detail, structure, and working collaboratively with fee earners, clients, and Partners to keep transactions running efficiently and will focus on the administrative side of our non-contentious fixed fee practice.
About you
We are looking for an individual with a strong foundation in non‑contentious construction work and a confident, detail‑driven approach to supporting fee earners. You will be comfortable taking the lead on the first review of construction documents—including JCT contracts and wider building agreements—and can identify issues, inconsistencies, and points requiring escalation with clarity and accuracy.
What We Can Offer You
Gowling WLG has been recognised as one of the best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work® for 26 consecutive years.
Excellent benefits include:
- A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
- 25 days annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week’s extra annual leave.
- Free private medical insurance, and the option to add family members.
- A generous pension allowance.
- Life assurance covering four times your annual salary.
- Maternity, paternity, and adoption leave schemes.
- A range of health and wellbeing programmes.
- State‑of‑the‑art offices, in the heart of Birmingham City Centre and London overlooking Tower Bridge, both with onsite restaurants.
- Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development.
Equal Opportunities
Gowling WLG is committed to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re‑assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity.
At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone’s potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.
Any offers we make will be conditional subject to clearance by the SRA, evidence of eligibility to work in the UK and DBS clearance.
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