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Recruiting for a Legal PA to join the London Transactional Shipping/Corporate/Commercial team of a leading international law firm supporting Partners and Legal Directors. This role will be working alongside 1 other Legal PA supporting a team of Partners, Legal Directors, Senior/Associates and Paralegals dealing with Transactional Shipping law. Although working in the Shipping department the firm will consider experience from a Commercial or Corporate background. Duties: Client relationship management: Support lawyers in marketing and BD activities, including: Enter new contact information onto the CRM system (InterAction) and keep the data up-to-date; Ensure that lawyers' client activities and PD reports are recorded on the CRM; Keep lawyers' bios up-to-date; Create first draft speaker profiles for particular events; Assist BD with capability statements and pitches; Assist BD with client events: create mailing list, invitations (Vuture), monitor responses; source corporate event suppliers; set up webinars; Open and close cases in compliance with case management procedures (IntApp); Become an active part in the care of clients and be wholly familiar with contacts/clients; Deal with basic client queries and general administration; Arrange client meetings. Financial: Assist lawyers in ensuring their time is recorded properly and entered onto the system on a daily basis; Chase and post disbursements, eg. counsel fees, on practice management system (Elite 3E); Assist lawyers in the billing and credit control process by liaising with the lawyer and Revenue & Collections team to produce standard financial/time reports through the system; Send bills to clients and record dates of bills sent on practice management system; Request cheques, bank transfers and pay in money received, as appropriate; Reclaim BD expenses. Administration: Manage diaries, ensuring they are up-to-date, and remind lawyers of meetings, etc. on a daily basis; Arrange meetings, book conference rooms (Condeco), refreshments/catering, check room set-up prior to meetings and liaise with other attendees, both internal and external; Liaise with Learning & Development Department regarding CPD; Arrange subscriptions/renewals of professional memberships; Arrange for travel bookings and related details, including travel itineraries and expenses; Arrange scanning, photocopying, printing, organising couriers, sending out of letters, etc; Arrange for documents to be eSigned (DocuSign); Arrange for files to be opened and closed; general filing requirements (Work Panel) and record-keeping; Use effective systems to ensure that both short and long-term tasks are completed within required timescales. Communications: Take internal and external queries, responding as appropriate and/or ensuring that all messages are passed on in a timely manner; Monitor post and/or e-mails and deal with as appropriate and ensure that all client-related correspondence is passed on to an appropriate fee earner if the relevant person is out of the office; Liaise with business support departments on behalf of lawyers as required; Liaise with the Team Leader regarding arranging cover for planned absences, as necessary and communicating this to the relevant fee earners. Document production: Draft standard letters, eg. client care letters, as and when required; Check that correspondence, attachments, documents, reports, presentations, etc. produced by the Document Production team are returned in good time and undertake basic/minor amendments where appropriate; Type urgent/short/confidential correspondence; Produce and maintain Excel spreadsheets as required. Team Work: Assist others in the Group, both proactively whenever there is spare capacity or it is evident that a colleague needs assistance with their workload and at the request of the Team Leader; Provide cover for colleagues; Pick up telephone calls for other members of the Group when they are away from their desk; Work effectively with other legal and business services departments as required.