Senior Legal PA
Job Description
Job title: Senior Legal PA
Company: Larbey Evans
Job description: Senior Legal PAA top UK Law firm is looking to hire a new Senior Legal PA on a permanent basis, to support their busy Private Client team with all secretarial and administration duties.
- Salary to £46,500
- Generous Hybrid Working (2 days in office 3 remote)
- Collaborative and friendly working environment
The Senior Legal PA will assist the Practice Area Manager who is a Partner and a Knowledge Lawyer. The Senior Legal PA will heavily assist in organisational support for both these Lawyers and the wider practice.Responsibilities of the Senior Legal PA will include:
- Effective and proactive diary management.
- Awareness of Fee Earners’ workloads to plan ahead with minimal supervision.
- Processing relevant applications, forms or searches.
- Researching new clients / contacts and prepares bios before meetings and conducting basic research.
- Arranging travel and any other activities on behalf of Fee Earners, creating typed work of a high quality, formatting in accordance with house style.
- Preparing bills (including bill narratives).
- Preparing AML documentation and obtaining relevant documentation / carrying out conflict searches and correctly identifying the work type.
- Maintaining up to date knowledge and a strong understanding of Fee Earners’ matters.
- This position will also be supporting a Knowledge Lawyer.
Required experience of the Senior Legal PA:
- Previous secretarial experience within a law firm with, ideally with experience in a Private Client team.
- Excellent written, communication and organisational skills & attention to detail skills.
- Knowledge of InterAction.
- Experience using Structure Flow and PowerPoint or similar.
- Familiarity with producing flowcharts, family trees and diagrams.
- Document production skills are highly desirable.
