Legal PA (Private Client)

Edinburgh Permanent £28,000 - £32,000 per year View Job Description
Our client is looking for a Legal PA
  • Urgent
  • Edinburgh

About Our Client

A leader in their field

Job Description

  • Diary management - makes and amends appointments, arranges meeting rooms, tracks responses and organises refreshments if required.
  • Responsible for taking new client queries (including relevant details of the background to the query).
  • Anticipate requirements for meetings i.e. organise papers, produce itinerary, directions, backgrounds/profile information.
  • Proactive e-mail management - ensures documentation copied to client folder (as required), flags important emails and ensure dealt with, checking lawyer inbox when out of office/in meetings and actions important/urgent emails where appropriate
  • Scan mail save to the document management system ('DMS') in the relevant folder, organise and prepare necessary responses for lawyers and paralegals.
  • Prioritise and manage multiple projects and follow through on issues in a timely manner.
  • Responsible for maintaining practice area organisation during times of holidays/absences for lawyers and paralegals- checking for important mail/voicemail/emails and responding if necessary or passing to another lawyer or paralegal.
  • Responsible for ensuring all BigHand and non-BigHand work is complete within required timescales for lawyers and paralegals
  • Responsible for inputting data into case management system.
  • Maintain intimate knowledge of current affairs in office and able to deal with clients and third parties on a day-to-day basis via e-mail, phone or in person, ensuring that accurate messages are communicated and dealt with professionally and proactively.
  • Update contacts and distribution lists in Outlook.
  • Proficient in the preparation of Excel spreadsheets.
  • Responsible for drafting letters of engagement.
  • Organises expense claim forms and collate necessary receipts.
  • Pay invoices in compliance with office internal procedures. Follow up process with relevant practice area through to completion ensuring completing appropriate cash form as required.
  • Assist with billing, attend team/billing meetings, prepare bill and narratives for lawyers to sign off on and send to appropriate biller for finalising.
  • Organise transfer of time from lawyer's suspense account to relevant matter number.
  • Assist with case management.
  • Assist in collating trust bibles.
  • Assist in populating and updating internal systems and databases to enable information to be pulled from these databases when necessary.
  • Responsible for sharing appropriate documents within the team - ensuring that all presentations are listed on a central database and all templates are available to all members of /practice area
  • Undertaking some specialist duties e.g., finance, marketing/business development.
  • Complete mail merges when required.
  • Implementing standardised system in respect of saving documents saved to DMS.
  • File documents in appropriate location both electronically and in hard copy, and organises opening and closing of files and papers when necessary.
  • Sourcing travel and accommodation, organising all aspects of travel and anticipating important information and documents that fee earners may need whilst travelling, i.e., timetables, distances, etc.

The Successful Applicant

  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Ability to multi task and prioritise
  • Proficient in the use of Microsoft applications:
  • Word - track changes/mail merge
  • Outlook - diary management, contacts, tasks
  • Excel
  • PowerPoint

What's on Offer

A competitive salary and excellent benefits

Contact
Victoria Natillo
Quote job ref
JN-092024-6525663
Phone number
+44 131 243 2919

Job summary

Job function
Legal
Subsector
Banking & Finance - Private Practice
Sector
Business Services
Location
Edinburgh
Contract type
Permanent
Consultant name
Victoria Natillo
Consultant phone
+44 131 243 2919
Job reference
JN-092024-6525663