Complex Injury Paralegal




Application Deadline: 30 October 2026




Department: Legal




Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time




Location: Southampton




Description




Keoghs LLP | Complex Injury Team


Full-time | 35 hours per week | Monday-Friday




Are you looking to develop your career in complex and high-value personal injury work?

Keoghs is looking for a dedicated
Complex Injury Paralegal to join our successful and growing Complex Injury Team in Southampton.



This is an exciting opportunity to gain hands-on experience assisting with
large loss ,
catastrophic injury , and
high-value multi-track claims -including
multi-million-pound brain, spinal, amputation, and fatal injury cases , as well as large loss claims up to GBP 1m.



If you're currently working in a personal injury paralegal or support role and want to advance your career in complex injury litigation, we'd love to hear from you.



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What You'll Be Doing



Working closely with our Lead Lawyer and wider Complex Injury Team, you'll support the progression of high-value personal injury matters from instruction through to resolution. Duties will include:




File & Case Support

• Preparing, filing, serving, and diarising basic court documents and hearing dates


• Liaising with experts, counsel, insureds, and witnesses


• Coordinating conferences, hearings, joint settlement meetings, and expert appointments


• Managing CRU registrations, updates, and settlement notifications


• Reviewing medical records, photographic evidence, and surveillance footage


• Drafting summaries, mandates, and applications for records and police reports


• Redacting documents to maintain privilege and GDPR compliance


• Taking and fielding calls from all parties involved in the claims

As Your Skills Develop



With experience and supervision, you'll progress to tasks including:

• Preparing instructions to counsel


• Drafting witness statements and liaising with witnesses


• Preparing and reviewing disclosure


• Attending client meetings and preparing notes


• Drafting updates to clients and more complex court documentation

What we're looking for




Essential Skills & Experience

• Minimum of 5 GCSEs (grade 5/C or above)


• Demonstrable interest in law (e.g. LPC, CILEX, or experience in a legal environment)


• Experience of the litigation process-ideally in personal injury


• Strong communication and telephone skills


• Confident, organised, and able to manage competing priorities


• High attention to detail-especially when tasks are repetitive


• Good IT, literacy, and administrative skills


• A proactive team player with the flexibility to support the needs of the team


• Ability to work in line with the SRA Code of Conduct

Soft Skills

• Team Commitment - Values collaboration and others' perspectives


• Resilience - Calm under pressure


• Growth Mindset - Keen to develop and improve


• Adaptability - Embraces change positively


• Client-Focused Thinking - Adds value through service quality


• Commercial Awareness - Understands broader business implications

Job Benefits

• Davies Incentive Plan


• 25 days holiday per year which increases with level of service (opportunity to buy & sell 3 days)


• Simply Health Care Cash Plan


• WeCare - 24/7 online GP, mental health support and virtual wellbeing covering a whole host of topics to do with health, mental health, wellbeing & healthy living and financial & legal wellbeing


• Death In Service - after 1 years' service


• Pension Contribution based 5% Employee / 3% Employer


• Cycle to Work Scheme*


• Tech Scheme*


• Season Ticket Loan*


• Gym Flex*


• Access to Online Discount Sites


• Discounted Gourmet Society Membership


• Discounted Tickets for Merlin Attractions nationwide


• Discounts at local retail outlets

*after successfully completing probation