THE ROLE
Your primary role as a Legal Assistant, working within our Clinical Negligence and Serious Injury Team, will be to assist the lawyers progressing their cases, which will include the following day to day tasks:
- Assisting with Access Requests for medical records and associated follow up
- Sorting medical records to produce relevant chronologies
- Obtaining additional or missing records or information
- Paginating medical records
- Collating documents to accompany instructions to experts/counsel
- Researching/approaching medical experts
- Liaising with clients over the phone or by email
- Liaising with the Court and other third parties over the phone or by email
- Liaising with Defendant representatives over the phone or by email
- Drafting letters/documents
- Drafting witness statements
- Arranging appointments and conferences
- Opening files and drafting new client packs
- Insuring cases
- Assisting with taking new claims enquiries and obtaining all relevant information when required
- Updating internal systems
- Assisting Fee Earners and carrying out other ad hoc tasks that assist the team
- Maintaining compliance in accordance with internal policies and GDPR
What experience do I need?
We are looking for an experienced Legal Administrative Support Secretary or Legal Assistant looking for their next role. You should demonstrate an interest for working within a Clinical Negligence and Serious Injury department and will ideally have previous experience of working in a role that has had to deal with medical records and chronologies. We will consider candidates with PI experience.
What skills should I have?
- Conscientious and meticulous with great attention to detail
- Strong IT skills, particularly experience with having used customer/client databases and MS packages such as Outlook, Word and Excel
- Analytical skills
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
- A great team player
- Flexible
What are we offering?
- A supportive, relaxed and flexible work environment in an experienced and growing team.
- 28 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays
- Medicash and Unum dental cash back schemes after 1 years' service
- Life Insurance
- EAP and various other physical and mental wellbeing support services
- Family friendly policies such as enhanced maternity and paternity pay plus, family events leave
- Company sick pay
- Cycle scheme