If you are looking to work in the legal field and be one of the main pillars driving a legal team, then look no further!
Maxim Recruitment Solutions are currently recruiting for an experienced Legal Assistant to assist with support duties for a prestigious law firm.
Our client is a forward-thinking, innovative, and friendly law firm. Their team is currently seeking an enthusiastic support assistant to join their Thatcham office. The role involves providing legal secretarial and administrative support to the team.
Duties:
- Assist the team in ensuring smooth progress of work and excellent client service.
- Handle general typing, document inputting, and correspondence as directed by lawyers.
- Utilise the firm's systems to prepare relevant legal documents
- Address any issues that may arise and keep clients up to date with progress
- Ensure clear ledger and file organization, preparing documents for clients, and arranging submissions to HMRC
- Assist lawyers with a variery of legal duties, pass files for scheduling, and handle confidential information
- Assist with compliance-related client letters, filing, archiving, and retrieval of client files.
- Manage appointments, new clients, and maintain lawyer diaries.
- Handle postage and other administrative tasks required for the team
- Ensure confidentiality and security of firm and client documentation/information.
Skills And Qualifications:
- Proficiency in computer usage
- Ideally previous experience working in a law firm or within the legal sector
- Excellent typing and IT skills
The salary for this role is dependent on experience however; we envisage this will be in the region of £25,000 - £28,000 + excellent benefits and a first class working environment. There are also good career growth opportunities available.
If you have the right experience and you like the sound of this fantastic job then please apply without delay!