Legal PA - Employment Law for a specialist Employment Law Firm in the City supporting Partner level. £45,000 + Hybrid working 2 days at home.
Legal PA and administrative support to Partners, fee-earners and to deliver pro-active support to the Marketing and Operations Director, displaying a strong focus on exceptional client service.
Key Responsibilities
- Providing administrative and secretarial support including assisting on specific projects.
- Word processing, typing and collating correspondence and other documents, amending and formatting documents quickly and accurately.
- Assisting with the onboarding of new clients and matters, including processing KYC and AML checks and preparing engagement letters.
- Maintaining diary systems including arranging and booking internal and external meetings including client lunches and dinners.
- Arranging travel and hotel requirements for fee-earners.
- Handling expense claims for fee-earners.
- Scheduling archiving and retrieval of files from storage.
- Managing front of house and client and internal meeting rooms including meeting and greeting external clients / visitors.
- Assisting with organising internal events (e.g. client lunches and dinners, social events).
- Ensuring fee-earner capacity trackers are kept updated.
- Arranging couriers, redirecting post.
- Assisting with resolving any routine business operations problems as part of the overall support team.
- Assisting with IT admin / equipment set up / return for new joiners and leavers and ordering new equipment for existing staff, when required.
Skills and Experience
- Prior experience in a legal secretarial role / prior secretarial / PA experience in a fast-paced City environment is desirable.
- Strong, accurate typing skills (65+ wpm).
- High proficiency in all Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), together with the use of house styles.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including strong proofing skills.
- Pro-active with a strong ownership approach to the operational workflow.
- Good judgement and ability to work on own initiative.