Senior Legal Assistant
Hybrid working available, on-site parking with good transport links, Monday to Friday 9am to 5:30pm. Great benefits and salary of £34k to £38k.
Dynamite Recruitment is currently working in partnership with a very well-established corporate business who are based in the local area.
Due to huge growth plans our client is now looking to expand their specialist legal team and require a senior legal assistant.
As a
Senior Legal Assistant
, you be responsible for the following tasks:
You will be working as part of a Specialist Legal Services team and handle a variety of defended and bespoke litigation files from start to finish. These cases will range from Innocent Purchasers, SARS, DPA requests, Dealer Claims and other ad-hoc matters.
Your daily tasks will include the following:
- Working within a team of Legal Assistants to support them with their caseloads of Return of Goods, Money Claims and enforcement where necessary.
- Defending claims where proceedings have been issued against the business.
- Avoiding reputational damage and mitigating ongoing financial risk to the business.
- Taking management of specific cases that require corresponding with various third parties and customers. In this regard, all correspondence must be signed as you being their "Legal Case Manager".
- Having an awareness of the cost implementations of cases you are involved in and the commercial benefit in continuing or withdrawing from a claim.
- Striving for the best outcome for the business on every occasion.
- Adhere to the FCA Conduct rules.
The Ideal Senior Legal Assistant will have / Be
- Previous experience as a senior legal assistant / legal assistant.
- Experience handling a defended and contentious caseload.
- Have experience of court advocacy.
- Expert knowledge of the Civil Procedure Rules.
- Working knowledge of the Consumer Rights Act 2015 and the Consumer Credit Act 1974.
- Excellent Planning and organisational skill.
- Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
To be considered for this position please submit your CV immediately!