Legal Administrator
£Excellent + Exceptional Benefits
Do you have Paralegal experience or legal administration experience?
The opportunity:
We have an exciting new position for a Legal Administrator to join our Civil Litigation team in our Manchester office. This is an independent SRA authorised and regulated legal business offering services to both insured and non-insured clients. Our clients and business partners comprise businesses, high net worth individuals, and associations across a broad spectrum of industries.
We operate out of offices in Manchester, Leeds, London and Croydon and employ over 60 specialist solicitors. Our legal teams guide, support, defend and protect clients through a wide range of key legal services. We are looking for an experienced legal administrator to support our Civil Litigation team in Manchester, which currently comprises of 14 fee earners and 2 legal administrators.
You'll be supporting our fee earners, handling post, coordinating court hearings and liaising with 3rd parties, assisting with diary management and travel arrangements, preparing bundles and filing and service legal documents. The work is fast-moving, varied and exciting, and the successful candidate will receive full training in our internal practices and procedures.
What you'll be doing:
- Ensure all files are set up and maintained within required standards and in line with relevant procedures. Liaising with clients and potential clients regarding new instructions
- Handle post for the team - ensuring that incoming post is distributed in a timely manner and saved to the correct file and section, as well as that all outgoing post is ready in good time, with any deadlines strictly adhered to
- Co-ordinate Court hearings and liaise with third parties (such as authorities and legal advocates) to set up files arrange meetings, facilitate the exchange of information and otherwise assist in the progression of their matters
- Communicate effectively with the team to ensure workloads are prioritised correctly and timescales provided where necessary
- Assist with fee earners' diary management and travel arrangements as and when required
- Be able to meet crucial deadlines and display key time management skills when following Court orders, filing and serving legal documents to legal representatives, opponents and the Court
- Prepare bundles, diarise key dates, draft / format / paginate letters and documents including for fixed deadlines linked to the completion of transactions and/or Court hearings
- Assist fee earners in the team with billing, file closure / archiving and finance-related queries
- Generally support the development of the Civil Litigation team and undertake any tasks reasonably required of the role
Our must haves:
- Strong communication and organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workload
- Experience of working within the legal sector (ideally within civil litigation)
- Good IT skills and working knowledge of Microsoft Office and legal case management software (ideally Partner for Windows)
- Excellent data entry and word processing skills
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy and recognise the importance of order and clarity in the workplace and the presentation of work
- Able to demonstrate first class client care and communication skills across all levels, including having an excellent telephone manner
- Continuously seek improvement to achieve higher levels of efficiency, customer service and effectiveness. Think laterally to find the most efficient and practical means of overcoming challenges
- Abel to maintain a high standard of professionalism at all times
- An effective team mate, demonstrating positive and co-operative interaction with team members
What's in it for you?
- A great starting salary plus 5% annual bonus & strong benefits package...
- 25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays, with the opportunity to buy/sell extra leave
- Fantastic company pension scheme, private medical and dental cover, life assurance, travel insurance cover, income protection, season ticket loan as well as other great benefits on offer
- There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we can provide the support needed to do just that!