Job Details

Owen Reed is looking for a Practice Support Executive for a top law firm in Milton Keynes. This is an exciting 12-month FTC opportunity offering hybrid working, excellent training, and real career development within a highly respected Projects team.

The Practice Support Executive will provide proactive, high-quality support to partners and fee-earners, ensuring exceptional client service and seamless day-to-day operations. This role is ideal for someone organised, detail-driven, and passionate about delivering a first-class professional service.

Key Responsibilities Organisation & Planning

Manage complex diaries, meetings, and travel arrangements.

Monitor deadlines and organise client entertainment, seminars, and internal events.

Prepare agendas, meeting papers, first-draft correspondence, and manage inbox filing.

Liaise with internal teams to resolve operational queries and update fee-earner capacity trackers.

Business Development & Client Support

Conduct client research and act as a key contact for non-legal queries.

Support client reporting, bids, tenders, and presentation materials.

Assist with BD events in partnership with the Business Development team.

Financial Management & Matter Administration

Coordinate complex billing arrangements and supervise routine billing and expenses.

Oversee post-matter completion, WIP monitoring, NBI forms, engagement letters, conflicts, AML checks, and party lists.

Document Management

Prepare pitch documents, draft and amend Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files.

Carry out document comparisons, conversions, proofreading, archiving, and dictation transcription.

About You 18 months+ experience in a secretarial or administrative role.

Strong background supporting a practice group or busy team.

Confident using MS Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.

Highly organised, proactive, and able to prioritise in a fast-paced environment.

Professional communicator with excellent relationship-building skills.

Calm under pressure, adaptable, and comfortable delegating tasks.

A supportive team player with mentoring abilities.