Paralegal - Small Claims

Join Thompsons Solicitors as a Paralegal in our Sheffield small claims team and build a career where your work genuinely changes lives. Whether you’re new to the legal sector or looking for a fresh challenge, we’ll give you the training, coaching and support you need to thrive.

The Role

You'll join a team managing a high-volume caseload, with support and guidance from experienced colleagues. Working closely with clients involved in road traffic accidents, you'll play a key role in progressing cases from initial evidence gathering through to instructing medical experts. Throughout the process, you'll ensure every client feels heard, informed and supported.

Clear, confident communication, whether by phone, email or in person, is essential, along with the ability to stay organised and manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment”

Who we are looking for..

We’re looking for someone with strong attention to detail, excellent organisational skills and a genuine commitment to delivering outstanding client care. If you’re motivated, eager to learn and ready to grow, you’ll fit right in. Once fully trained, you’ll also have the option to move into a hybrid working pattern.

Use the personal summary section to tell us what you’ll bring to the team—we’re excited to hear from candidates from all backgrounds, and no prior legal experience is required.

What we offer you

• Contributory pension scheme
• Permanent health insurance
• Healthcare Cash Plan (Medicash)
• Life assurance
• 23 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Additional 5 days leave over Christmas
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Cycle to work scheme
• Subsidised sports and social club
• Annual travel and parking loans
• Financial support for professional development

Start your journey with us and build a rewarding career helping people when they need it most.

About Thompsons Solicitors

For 100 years, leading social justice law firm, Thompsons Solicitors, has been fighting for the rights of the injured and mistreated and changing lives for the better. Since 1921, we have stood shoulder-to-shoulder with trade unions to implement key legal reforms and give a voice to those who might otherwise have been disadvantaged and marginalised.

Thompsons ran:

• the case that established the right for injured workers to be compensated in 1937
• the first asbestos case that was successful in the House of Lords in 1972
• the first equal pay for equal value claim in the UK (1988) and later in Europe (1993)
• the case against UK construction companies for blacklisting union members in 2016
• hundreds of cases on behalf of women who received negligent treatment at the hands of disgraced breast surgeon, Ian Paterson (2017) and behalf of those injured by mesh (2019).

Today, Thompsons employs 800 staff who work at 18 offices right across the UK. Key areas of legal specialism include: personal injury, serious injury, asbestos diseases, medical negligence, road traffic accidents, accidents at work, industrial diseases and trade union law. As a point of principle, the firm has never worked for employers or insurers.

Over the last 100 years, we have consistently won the cases that have advanced the law for working people, but, as long as there are employers who put profit before the safety and rights of their workforce, there is always more to do. We continue to expose injustice, holding those responsible to account and campaigning for positive change.

We want to hear from anyone who is keen to progress a legal career with a firm that won’t let up in its quest for fairness.

Visit www.thompsons.law or call 0800 0 224 224

Thompsons Solicitors is a trading name of Thompsons Solicitors LLP.