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 £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