This well-established Yorkshire firm is looking for a Legal Assistant to join its Harrogate office. This firm is looking for support in its Personal Injury department.
Company Benefits:
- 25 days of holiday
- Gym membership contribution
- Wellbeing day
- Study day if the candidate is studying for SQE or to be a Chartered Legal Executive
- Company Pension Scheme
- Private health cover and death in service benefit
- Firmwide social opportunities
- Employee Assistance Programme: Wellbeing and Health Information, Structured Counselling, Debt and Money Information and Support, Legal Information, Remote GP Services, Subsided Optical Treatments – eye tests, prescribed glasses or contact lenses
The roles itself will have the Legal Assistant dealing with administrative tasks as well as assisting with calls on legal helplines covering a wide range of legal areas. The legal helplines are run by the firm on behalf of a client. This role is ideal for a candidate at the start of their legal career and for gaining experience of dealing with clients from the outset.
Legal Assistants Key Tasks:
- Dealing with telephone calls within both departments
- Providing administration support to lawyers within the personal injury team and on the legal
helplines
- Liaising with clients and other parties on behalf of the team and dealing with enquiries as
appropriate
- Making Subject Access Requests
- Drafting letters of instruction to medical experts
- Digital filing, photocopying and collating documents
- Preparing electronic bundles
- Maintaining diaries, arranging appointments with medical experts and arranging
conferences with Counsel
- Preparing and up-dating spreadsheets
- Assisting in up-dating precedent letters for the case management system
- Creating and sending SharePoint links to third parties
If this sounds like the legal assistant role for you then apply or drop Dan Craddock at G2 Legal a message.
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