Junior Personal Assistant
£36,000
London - Full-time
On of the top-ranking law firms, who has over 600 lawyers working across the world, are looking to recruit a Junior Personal Assistant to join their team in London. They solve complex issues within the construction, aviation or shipping industries, and provide advice across insurance, commodities and energy.
Responsibilities:
- Support lawyers in marketing and BD activities
- Enter new contact information onto the CRM system
- Create first draft speaker profiles for particular events
- Source corporate event suppliers
- Open and close cases in compliance with case management procedures
- Deal with basic client queries and general administration
- Arrange client meetings
- Assist lawyers in the billing and credit control process
- Send bills to clients and record dates of bills sent
- Manage diaries, ensuring they are up-to-date
- Arrange meetings, book conference rooms and travel
- Take internal and external queries
- Monitor post and/or e-mails
- Liaise with business support departments on behalf of lawyers as required
Skills and experience:
- Two years' previous experience in a law firm.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, research tools and other systems implemented by the firm.
- Excellent customer service skills
- Telephone manner and competent knowledge of telephone system.
- Communication, organisational and team skills.
- Flexible and dependable
- Able to remain calm under pressure and work to tight deadlines.
- Have a positive approach to daily tasks and have a solutions-focused working method.
- Flexible with regard to working hours, arriving earlier and staying later when the job or business requires.
This firm offers remote working three days in office and two from home.
If you would like to learn more about this opportunity, contact Lucy Allan for a confidential discussion.
LR Legal is a specialist legal recruitment agency with a reputation based on trust and integrity. We will always ask your permission before sending your CV to any of our clients.
The PQE identified on this advertisement is a guide only and does not preclude applications from those with more or less PQE.
LR Legal Recruitment is operating as an Employment Agency in respect of this vacancy.
- We require a lawyer who has gained the necessary experience for the position advertised. The PQE identified on this advertisement is a guide only and does not preclude applications from those with more or less PQE.