Legal

Legal PA/Secretary (Temporary to 6 month contract) £21K Central Bristol Job No. JT5413

This is a great opportunity for an experienced legal PA/Secretary to work in a temporary contract with a leading law firm in Central Bristol as a PA within the Corporate Law team.

The role is varied and will include travel arrangements, diary management, typing and preparing your own correspondence, setting up meetings, monitoring lawyers and colleagues email accounts, dealing with marketing events, client queries and booking lunches.

You will need to have excellent legal secretarial experience,  IT, communication and administration skills.

This contract runs for up to 6 months starting 30th April. Please contact us immediately if you are interested in this role!

Legal Secretary J5411 Central Bristol £20K

Life will never be dull working for the Partner of this solicitors firm in Central Bristol.  He is charismatic with a great sense of humour and needs someone to organise his busy work schedule.

You will need to have Conveyancing experience and be used to working for an SME legal practice to deal with the variety of work that comes along.  You will also need to have the ability and confidence to work at Partner level and communicate with his senior property clients.

If this role interests you please contact us immediately.

Group Administrator – J5406 – North Somerset – £25,000

Our client is looking for someone who loves to multitask to be responsible for the overall administration of the company’s business. This involves 5 key areas of responsibility:

1. HR

Overseeing the standardisation of the company’s recruitment procedures and dealing with all matters that may arise, with the guidance of a Human Resources Consultant.

2. Insurance Claims:

Handling all insurance claims and liaising with insurance brokers and maintaining records of claims made.

3. Resales/ Marketing:

Handling all resales relating to the developments, answering all enquiries raised by the solicitors, preparing invoices, liaising with accounts department upon completion of sale and receipt of all outstanding monies.

Also ensuring that resale information on the company’s website is kept up to date, maintaining the company’s website and seeking opportunities to review and improve as appropriate.

4. Management Matters

Collating and preparing agendas and papers for regular Company management meetings, taking minutes of management meetings.

Taking overall responsibility for organising annual Manager Conferences, ensuring that legal documents, particularly those in respect of newly acquired developments, are complete and up to date.

5. PA to Managing Director

Providing secretarial and administrative assistance to MD as required on company projects, dealing with clients and other enquiries during MD’s absences from Head Office

The successful candidate is likely to have been a paralegal or legal PA with conveyancing experience who is looking for a broad ranging, busy position. However, experience in other areas of senior administration and secretarial work may be considered.

Paralegal – Public Liability – J5405 – Central Bristol – £16-18,000 per annum

Our client are looking for a full time Paralegal to assist the Public Liability Team in the Bristol Office.

The successful candidate will have experience in dealing with injury claims, preferably including Public Liability Claims.

The role will involve:

1. Assisting more senior colleagues on their cases, collating liability evidence, arranging medical reports, researching quantum issues etc and/or running own caseload and,

2. Being willing to help out in other Injury Claims teams as and when required.

Applicants must be capable of working on their own using initiative, be able to undertake research and have a desire to make the role their own.

Our standard minimum requirements of 5 GCSEs at grade C or above to include Maths and English do apply.

Hours 37.5 hours based in Bristol office.

Legal Secretary – Central Bristol – Permanent – circa £18-20.5k – J5403

Our client has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Legal Secretary with previous property experience, to join their busy team.

Responsibilities of this role include:

• Provide effective, high level secretarial support to lawyers & partners

• Dealing with any enquiries from clients and colleagues

• Audio typing

• Diary Management

• Amend and format legal documentation

• Involvement in ad-hoc projects

• Undertaking general admin tasks when required

The successful candidate will ideally have property experience and enthusiasm to learn the legal work carried out within the team. Excellent IT skills are essential, particularly Microsoft word, Excel and Outlook, as well as a fast and accurate typing speed. Our client is seeking a flexible team player with confident communication skills including the ability to develop positive working relationships with colleagues and clients. The ability to use own initiative and provide an efficient service to the teams is key.