Job Description
Vacancy for Commercial Litigation Legal Support Assistant
Salary: Competitive
Do not pass up this chance, apply quickly if your experience and skills match what is in the following description.
Preferred Location: Southampton
Job SummaryVacancy
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Legal Support Assistant
Business Group
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Location
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Southampton
Ref. No.
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SOU 221673
Blake Morgan is one of the UK's leading full service law firms, with offices in London, Wales, Thames Valley and the South Coast region. We provide our clients with practical and straightforward legal advice whatever their regional, national and international requirements. Our clients are commercial businesses, not-for-profit organisations, government agencies and private individuals.
Our business groups are:
- Banking and Finance
- Commercial and Charities
- Commercial Litigation London / TV
- Commercial Recoveries
- Construction
- Corporate
- Employment, Pensions, Benefits & Immigration
- Private Client
- Property Services
- Regulatory
The Role
We are currently working remotely and will continue to work predominantly in this way on an informal basis until government guidelines change and likely beyond. Therefore, so as long as you would be able to come to one of our offices at least twice per week, client and team requirements depending, you will be able to undertake this role. You will be a core part of the team and able to access the technology, support and resources you require.
We are looking for a Legal Support Assistant to join the Commercial Litigation South/Wales business group to support the teams with a broad range of administrative and operational tasks. The successful candidate will have proven excellent communication and organisational skills required to assist the lawyers in the group.
Typical Workload
The role will be providing administrative support to assigned fee earners. This will include:
- Prompt administration and management of files including: opening file tasks, initial conduct of matters, closing of files
- Ongoing assistance with matters
- Organisation of documents including printing, scanning and organising e-files
- Accounts/billing responsibilities including liaising with our accounts team
- Collating, analysing and reporting of data as required by fee earners/clients
- Conference and meeting arrangements, diary management
- Other ad hoc duties as required by fee earners
Skills / Experience Required
- Collegiate and team-playing approach
- Enthusiastic and committed
- Ability to engage fully with clients and other professional and organisational contacts to provide an excellent service
- Committed to rigour around treating all clients fairly
- Focused on attributing dedication, determination and loyalty to colleagues, clients and communities
- Able to demonstrate continuous development and diversity in thinking
- Understands and complies with Information Security responsibilities commensurate with this role including Data Protection and the duty of confidentiality
Some of the benefits of working at Blake Morgan include:
- 26 days' annual holiday and option to purchase 1 weeks' leave
- Birthday holiday, should your birthday fall on a working day
- Performance related bonus scheme
- Private medical insurance including access to a health advice helpline
- Auto-enrolment pension scheme (5% employer pension contribution when employee contributes 3%)
- Critical illness cover
- Cash Plan - claim for flu jab, health screening, optical and dental plus a range of wellbeing and health services
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Professional subscriptions
- Season ticket loan (Cardiff, London and Reading)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounts at leading retailers
- Volunteering leave
- Gifts at key lifestyle and career milestones
Our Culture and Environment
We pride ourselves on our Personality, which is weaved into everything we do for our staff, clients and communities alike. We have created an environment underpinned by our "ACTS framework" that places high value on being:
Astute (commercially)
Team playing
Straightforward
It's part of the way we like to do things. If you wish to work amongst colleagues with these behaviours, then you will find yourself amongst likeminded individuals at Blake Morgan.
We work as one team and believe in supporting our colleagues to strengthen the firm. We act honestly and openly in all that we do. We care for our communities and encourage all our people to actively participate in our sports, social and charitable activities. We foster a mature and smart flexible working environment which is family friendly. We also offer opportunities to develop your skills and knowledge and to progress within the firm via our Blake Morgan Academy.
Blake Morgan strives to create and maintain a positive, non-discriminatory work environment. We will ensure that all applications for vacancies will be considered without discrimination against any person on the basis of race, colour, religion, disability, nationality, ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, age or marital status. We strive to ensure that our shortlisting and interviewing panels are diverse. Further details about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion can be found here .
If you have any questions, please email Rebecca Donnelly at Rebecca.Donnelly@blakemorgan.co.uk or telephone on 023 8085 7217.
Please note that we are currently only accepting CVs from direct applicants.