Job Details

Legal PA - Corporate

Owen Reed are recruiting for a Legal PA to join a international law firm based near Liverpool Street Station.  The Legal PA will be working within the Corporate team.  The Legal PA will provide skilled administrative and secretarial support to a group of fee earners helping to maximise the effectiveness of the lawyers' practices.

Key activities/responsibilities of the Legal PA
Client Service
•Proactively manage and maintain diary planning and coordination for allocated fee earners
•Travel management, booking transport, hotels, client meetings and producing detailed itineraries.
•Coordinating business development and client liaison initiatives for fee earners
•Proactively dealing with all aspects of claiming expenses
•Dealing professionally and promptly with client (internal and external)
•Creation, uploading and general maintenance of client sites

Technical and Organisational Skills
•Monitoring fee earners' mailbox when they are out of the office
•Using initiative to route emails to the appropriate individuals for swift response and action
•Preparing bills, including resolving queries and dealing with outstanding fees, maintaining accurate billing/contact details
•Providing secretarial assistance to assigned fee-earners, which includes audio typing, copy typing, formatting documents, creating correspondence, pitches and presentations.
•Organising client documents (delegating scanning, formatting, photocopying and collating of information where necessary)