Legal Personal Assistant
Posted 4 days ago by SC Staff and Consult
£48,000 Per year
Undetermined
Hybrid
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Legal Personal Assistant (PA) involves providing essential support within a global law firm, particularly as part of a Float team. This position requires managing diaries, assisting with travel arrangements, and handling document management while fostering relationships with partners and clients. The contract is for 12 months with a hybrid working arrangement, necessitating at least 50% office attendance. Candidates should have prior experience as a legal PA, ideally covering both corporate and litigation law.
Key Responsibilities:
- Quickly forming working relationships with Partners and PAs to provide a seamless PA support function
- Managing various diaries and inboxes providing proactive management
- Assisting with travel arrangements including hotels and transport, compiling thorough itineraries
- Document management, including opening files, archiving and filing documents electronically and paper-based
- Supporting with end-to-end billing and liaising with the billing team
- Typing where required either via dictation or handwritten changes
- Establishing and managing relationships with clients
Key Skills:
- Experience as a legal PA within a law firm
- Ability to cover both corporate and litigation areas of law
- Strong diary and inbox management skills
- Proficient in document management
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
- Ability to assist with travel arrangements
- Typing skills, including dictation
Salary (Rate): £48,000.00 yearly
City: City Of London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Legal PA - FLOAT - 12 month contract
Do you love the variety a global law firms practice can offer an experienced legal PA like you? My client is a global law firm, with stunning offices and celebrates their established Float team who don't just parachute in on last minute requirements - they are a vital part of a successful support function to the firm and fee earners and PAs. Many of the floats undertake long term placements and become vital members of the practice teams. This is an initial 12 month contract with hybrid working of at least 50% attendance in the office.
Duties will include:
- Quickly forming working relationships with Partners and PAs to provide a seamless PA support function
- Managing various diaries and inboxes providing a proactive management of both
- Assisting with travel arrangements including hotels and transport, compiling thorough itineraries
- Document management, including opening files, archiving and filing documents electronically and paper-based
- Supporting with end-to-end billing and liaising with billing team
- Typing where required either via dictation or handwritten changes
- Establishing and managing relationships with clients
This Float Legal PA position is a full time, fixed term contract role, working Monday - Friday, 9:30am -5:30pm Candidates will need experience of working as a legal PA within a law firm and if you do not have float experience you must be able to offer experience that has covered both corporate and litigation areas of law.