A free paralegal résumé example, counted in bundles and documents
One complete paralegal résumé, written out in full in three dated roles. The person is invented. The reading and the score come from the product itself.
— matters supported, documents reviewed, deadlines met.
Paralegal work is confidential by default, which leaves most résumés for it describing duties rather than scale. This example is written out in full so you can read a page that describes scale without describing a case, then put through the tools here so you can see what a parser stores. The candidate is invented.
The example, in full
An invented person. Not a real document, and not yours.
Ottoline Marchbanks-Ezeh
Paralegal, Commercial Litigation
London, United Kingdom · [email protected] · +44 20 7946 0188
Summary
Paralegal with seven years in commercial litigation, working on disclosure, trial bundles and witness evidence for claims up to 12 million pounds. Runs the case files of 3 partners and a trainee.
Experience
Senior Paralegal · Harrowmere and Vance LLP, London · 2022 to present
- Managed disclosure on 6 commercial claims and reviewed 90 000 documents through Relativity without a single late exchange in 3 years.
- Prepared 22 trial bundles across 4 court sittings over 2 years and delivered every one to the listing office inside its deadline.
- Drafted 60 witness statements from client interviews over 3 years, and 9 of them stood without amendment through the other side's questions.
- Reduced disclosure cost on one claim by 34% by narrowing the search terms and removing 40 000 duplicate files before review.
- Supervised 2 paralegals and a trainee across 3 case teams and checked every court filing before it left the office.
Paralegal · Quillet Brackenridge Solicitors, Reading · 2019 to 2022
- Ran the limitation diary for 140 cases and never let a single deadline pass unmarked across 3 years at the firm.
- Researched 80 points of law over 2 years for 4 fee earners and wrote each answer up with its own authority attached.
- Prepared 40 court documents a year through the electronic system and cleared every one without a rejection from the court office.
- Built chronologies for 12 disputes over 3 years and gave each fee earner one dated record the trial team worked from.
- Handled 200 client letters and emails a month and answered 9 in every 10 without passing it to a fee earner.
Legal Assistant · Quillet Brackenridge Solicitors, Reading · 2018 to 2019
- Indexed 30 000 documents into the case management system in the first year and kept the numbering consistent throughout the matter.
- Attended 20 court hearings with counsel over 12 months and produced a written note of each one for the file.
- Checked 900 pages of exhibits against the index and corrected 60 wrong references before the bundle ever reached counsel in chambers.
- Opened 140 new matter files a year under the firm's own procedure and completed every client identity check before any work started.
- Recorded 1 100 chargeable hours in the first year and kept the narrative on every entry clear enough to bill.
Education
LLB Law · Thameshill University, London · 2015 to 2018
Skills
disclosure and e-disclosure, trial bundles, witness statements, chronologies, court filings, legal research, case management systems, Relativity, limitation diaries, client correspondence
Languages
English · native · French · B2
Certifications
CILEX Level 3 Paralegal Practice · 2020
Count the work, name no case
Six commercial claims with 90 000 documents reviewed on a disclosure platform and no late exchange in three years. Twenty-two trial bundles across four court sittings, each delivered to the listing office inside its deadline. Sixty witness statements drafted from client interviews. A limitation diary of 140 cases with no deadline passed unmarked. Every one of those is a fact about the paralegal, and none of them is a fact about a client.
Fee earner counts are worth as much as document counts. Researching eighty points of law for four fee earners, and supervising two paralegals and a trainee across three case teams, is a description of pace that a litigation partner recognises instantly.
The cost line is the unusual one
Disclosure cost on one claim down 34% after the search terms were narrowed and 40 000 duplicate files were removed before review. Cost control is normally described as a partner's concern, and a paralegal who has moved it is demonstrating judgement about the process rather than diligence within it.
The bundle line carries a quality figure in the same way: twenty-two bundles across four court sittings, every one inside its deadline. Bundles are where mistakes become visible in court, and a record like that means something to anybody who has prepared one.
Skills for a paralegal résumé, grouped
Ottoline's skills group into litigation, research and systems. Litigation support: disclosure and e-disclosure, trial bundles, witness statements, chronologies, court filings, limitation diaries. Research and correspondence: legal research, client correspondence. Systems: case management systems, Relativity. A supervising partner reads the litigation group first, because it says which tasks can be handed over.
Paralegals in property, private client or corporate work use other terms, so name the groups after your practice area. The résumé builder takes any group names you choose, and it is free.
From legal assistant to senior paralegal
A legal assistant's résumé proves careful administration: files opened, documents filed, deadlines diarised. The Quillet roles start there. A paralegal adds disclosure volumes, bundles and research.
A senior paralegal adds responsibility: matters run with less supervision, juniors trained, a cost saved on a process. The cost line is the unusual one and worth keeping. The certifications guide covers where CILEX belongs.
How it reads and scores
The import review reads 3 roles, 1 degree, 2 languages and 10 skills before anything reaches the editor. The ATS checker scored it 98 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with readable volume 3 points short and achievement quality 2 points short: 100 × 30% for parseability, 100 × 30% for completeness and 95 × 40% for content. The writing check scored it 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied here, and the five it did not award are the tense rule. The method behind these numbers is written up once, in how our examples are made and checked.
What this example leaves off
No case names, no client names, no counsel names and no outcomes. A litigation partner reads the absence of those as the first evidence that this candidate can be trusted with a disclosure exercise.
Modules from a law degree are left off as well. The degree with its dates and one practice qualification carry it; a list of undergraduate options is the sort of thing that belongs on a first application and nowhere afterwards.
What to change for your own
Change the practice area. Property, family, employment, immigration and criminal work all use this shape with different documents and different deadlines. Keep the shape: three dated roles, five verb-first lines under each, a figure in every line. Then put in your own matter counts, document volumes, filing records and fee earner support.
Keep the qualification with its year. Keep one line about a process you improved. The guide on experience bullets covers the construction, the design gallery holds 37 layouts, and the solicitor example, the reporter example and the receptionist example sit beside this one.
Write yours beside it
Opens the builder with Ottoline's example loaded, saved as its own entry in the Ledger design. Replace every line with your own. Free, no account.
Use this exampleCheck a résumé insteadQuestions
- Is Ottoline Marchbanks-Ezeh a real paralegal
- No. She is invented for this page, and so are Harrowmere and Vance LLP and Quillet Brackenridge Solicitors. The figures show a shape and describe nobody, and no matter described here exists.
- How is legal work described without breaching confidence
- By counting it. Matters supported, documents reviewed, bundles prepared, filings made. None of those identifies a client, a case or an outcome, and together they describe the work precisely.
- What is the strongest paralegal line
- Deadlines met. Six commercial claims of disclosure with no late exchange in three years, and forty court documents a year cleared without a rejection from the court office, is the claim a litigation partner most wants to be true, and it is a record a firm can confirm.
- What did the checker score it
- 98 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with readable volume 3 points short and achievement quality 2 points short. The arithmetic is 100 × 30% for parseability + 100 × 30% for completeness + 95 × 40% for content. The writing check scored it 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied to it.
- Should e-disclosure platforms be named
- In the skills row, yes. Review platforms are a filter term in litigation recruitment, and the cost line shows the platform being used well rather than merely used.
- Which design is this rendered in
- Ledger, one of the eight layouts in the ATS family and one of the 24 ATS-safe layouts out of 37. This page used to show the document in Serifbook and argue that a direct application to a partner did not need an ATS-safe layout. The eight were chosen on 2026-09-14 from a measurement: each one exports a PDF whose text layer scores exactly what the pasted text scores, on both test documents, in one column, with the reading order kept and no graphics.
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