We are recruiting for a Legal Support Assistant to work within one of Exeter's top law firms, supporting one the firm's property teams, which deals with rural and agricultural work. In this role you would play a key role supporting Lawyers across both the firm's Real Estate Disputes and Farms, Estates and Rural Land teams with quality administrative and support services to enable the efficient delivery of the team operational strategy. This is an exciting and rapidly growing area of the firm, and you can expect lots of opportunity to develop your skill set and to be involved in some interesting and challenging work. This is a great opportunity for someone with excellent administration skills who is looking to progress their career.
Tasks will include:
- Diary management: organise travel, meetings and ensure events are fully supported within the Group.
- Manage and take calls on behalf of Lawyers.
- Assist Lawyers with managing monthly billing procedures, cash collection, expenses and credit control processes.
- Deal with file opening and accompanying maintenance procedures: production of terms of business letters, confirmation of instruction letters, ID checks etc.
- Deal with all file management tasks to ensure full compliance with Foot Anstey practices and procedures to include: Lexcel, Code of Conduct, and anti-Money Laundering.
- Assist with administrative tasks relating to business development including: client research, building marketing lists, co-ordinating external invitations to business development activities, preparing resources to take to client meetings and tracking team business development activity.
- Transactional property support such as undertaking searches and dealing with the Land Registry.
Skills and experience required:
- Ideally some previous experience of working within a legal support role
- Alternatively, some previous administration / secretarial experience coupled with either an interest in law or some property experience might be of interest
- A driven, hard-working approach
- Excellent computer skills, including typing and use of the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel and Outlook)
Benefits:
- 28 days holidays per annum
- Buy and sell holiday options
- Discounted shopping package
- Lifestyle benefits and flexible working initiatives
- Gym membership
- 5 year sabbatical benefit
- Market leading parental leave
- Emergency backup childcare
- Social & sports clubs
- Private healthcare options
- EV car and bike schemes
- 2x volunteer days per year
To apply, please submit your application or alternatively please contact James at Aspiria Recruit (contact details on the Aspiria Recruit website)