Legal PA

Provide proactive and professional Legal PA support to the group. Provide services to the business in a manner which is consistent with the increasingly competitive environment in which the Firm operates.

Requirements

• Building and maintaining effective relationships with both internal and external clients and their teams and developing knowledge of their business
• Actively contributing to client service initiatives in the group, including attending client events and seminars where required
• Developing and maintaining core sector understanding to support delivery of optimum client service
• Liaising regularly with lawyers to identify work commitments and prioritising your workload accordingly
• Proactively identify areas of responsibility and tasks you can take ownership of
• Diary management for lawyers including arranging meetings and appointments, both internally and externally
• Proactive advance monitoring of lawyers' diaries, reminding them of diary commitments and taking responsibility for the provision of all supporting paperwork and necessary information for each meeting
• Liaising with the travel company to make travel and accommodation arrangements
• Taking ownership of answering lawyers' telephone calls when they are unavailable
• Screening, prioritising and dealing with lawyers' incoming e-mails, post and voicemail when lawyers are out of the office
• Proactively ensuring that the Exigent transcription service and Document Production service is utilised effectively
• Managing production of documents, co-ordinating changes made including taking responsibility for the consistency of those documents
• Coordinating typing of audio files, drafting correspondence, producing documents/letters/e-mails and memos

Benefits

• Carers’ leave (up to five paid days’ leave towards caring responsibilities)
• 25 days’ annual leave entitlement and the opportunity to purchase or roll over 5 days.
• Contributory pension of up to 5%
• Private healthcare policy
• Death in service cover (4 x base salary).
• Eligibility to apply for an interest free season ticket loan, an interest free gym membership loan and/or an interest free rental deposit loan.
• Cycle to work scheme