Legal Team Support | Dispute Resolution & Personal Injury Teams

Main responsibilities

To provide secretarial and administrative support to the Legal Advisers within the team, which will include:

• Deal with all new enquiries by phone, email or face to face.
• To receive and sort incoming post and deal with all returned client paperwork such as client care paperwork, monies on account and ID.
• Preparation and sending out of ‘pre-pack’s to clients.
• Client care and due diligence including conflict checks, credit safe and ID checks, bankruptcy searches, preparation of client care letters and preparing synopsis sheets for signature.
• Dictation, document production and collating enclosures.
• Opening of files and associated administrative tasks.
• General administration of documents including scanning and photocopying as required.
• To file correspondence and other relevant documents within client files (both hard and soft copy).
• File closing and archiving in line with the firm’s procedures.

Qualifications

• Good standard of education with a minimum of 5 GCSE’s at grade C or above in Maths and English (or equivalent).

Experience

• Minimum of 12 months experience in a Legal Secretarial/administration/support role.
• Experience of using Microsoft Outlook for diary management and to book appointments and meetings as requested.

Skills and Capabilities

• Excellent organisational skills.
• High level of numeracy.
• Ability to prioritise workload within a busy and environment.
• Accuracy and a very high standard of attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills (both written and oral).
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to prioritise and deal with multiple tasks effectively.
• Team oriented and collaborative with a flexible, can-do attitude.
• Ability to produce clear and well-presented paperwork.
• Sound IT skills and working knowledge of Microsoft packages – Outlook, Word and Excel in particular.

Location

Shrewsbury office

How to apply

To apply for this role, please send an email to emma.cross@hatchers.co.uk. Please include a cover letter and CV in your application.