Job Details

Legal PA - Part time - Corporate

Owen Reed are recruiting for a Part time Legal PA working for an international law firm. The Legal PA will  work on Thursdays and Fridays, who can demonstrate secretarial and administrative competencies to the highest level. The Legal PA will be providing first class administrative support and secretarial service to a number of fee-earners such as Partners, Associates, Trainees and other work providers.

The Legal PA will be supporting the Legal Support Manager and Legal Support Team in ensuring a high level of client service and provision of quality secretarial services in order to contribute to a world class 24 hour administration service.

Responsibilities of the Legal PA
• To support fee earner administrative activities (for example, bundling, indexing, general organisation etc.)
• To support client activities and requirements in a proactive manner, liaising with clients e.g. take messages, pass on information, deal with simple queries, meet and greet and client events
• To prepare client registration documents, engagement/assignment letters, conflicts checks, money laundering and audit Letters, with direction from partner/fee earner
• To manage the production of all documents (even those not typed personally) from initiation to delivery back to the relevant fee earner, involving Document Specialists as required
• To ensure documents returned to fee earner accurately reflect the original request before returning work, including proofreading the document, checking spelling, grammar, sense, amendments and presentation
• To undertake general filing administration, liaising with Filing Administrator as appropriate
• To pro-actively manage diaries, arrange meetings
• To undertake e-mail management (manage inbox and file e-mails), ensuring that urgent emails are promptly picked up by fee earners, or forwarded to another fee earner in their absence
• To undertake limited typing i.e. urgent short documents (digital and non digital dictation)
• To make travel arrangements (visas, flights, hotels, dinners)
• To work collaboratively with other secretarial support for the Department, to provide a responsive and professional secretarial support service to fee earners and clients
• To ensure that there is comprehensive telephone cover across the department, in accordance with the standard operating procedure
• To organise and liaise with Filing Administrators for routine administration tasks and the Document Support Unit for document production/amendments
• To maintain CRM by updating InterAction and maintaining fee earner contact list
• To support Marketing and BD administration e.g. prepare pitch documents, arrange marketing events, ad hoc research
• To support billing processes and timesheets

Requirements of the Legal PA
• 'Can-do' attitude
• Proactive, takes initiative
• Consistently demonstrates secretarial competencies to the highest level in all areas
• Strong technical skills
• Proficient in all software packages (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Previous professional services experience / background
• High level organisational skills

For more information please contact Aimee Baker