Corporate Team Legal Assistant - Sheffield

Freeths; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading law firm in Sheffield is seeking a Legal Assistant for a 9-month programme, providing support to lawyers and gaining valuable experience. The position focuses on administrative and legal tasks within a corporate setting, requiring excellent organization, communication skills, and a team-oriented attitude. Candidates will have opportunities for training and career development. The environment is supportive and inclusive.

Benefits

Opportunity for Solicitor Qualifying Examination funding

Supportive and collegiate environment

Focus on diversity and inclusion

Qualifications

• Excellent academics and first-class organisation skills.
• Build lasting relationships and a flexible attitude.
• Excellent communication skills and team player.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative and legal support to the team.
• Assist on transactions and undertake due diligence.
• Draft documents and attend meetings with clients.

Skills

Excellent academics

First-class organisation skills

Excellent communication skills

Good IT skills

Flexible, can-do attitude

Team player

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

About The Team

Our award winning Sheffield corporate team is highly regarded for the deals on which it advises. The team typically work on a variety of acquisitions, disposals, management buy-outs and fund-raises. The team’s ethos is to recruit for the long term, seeking high calibre individuals with a strong interest in corporate work to join us as Legal Assistants, with a view to them training and ultimately qualifying into the team. We trust our people to work flexibly in the way that works best for them, their teams and our clients. Our firm is set up to ensure everyone’s voice is heard, and mutual respect is shown by all.

About The Role

Our Sheffield Corporate Legal Assistant Programme allows you to gain grass roots experience of working in a busy corporate team alongside our talented lawyers. You will work in a collegiate and supportive environment and learn from other members of the team at all levels from Trainee to Partner. Legal Assistant positions are initially for 9 months. We review performance at 3 monthly intervals. At the 9-month stage we make a decision on whether to offer funding for the Solicitor Qualifying Examinations (SQE).

With this role, if we do offer funding for the SQE, you will undertake 2 of your 4 6 month training contract seats with the Sheffield corporate team, with the other seats undertaken in practice areas which are complimentary to corporate work, designed to equip you for a career as a corporate solicitor upon qualification.

If you wish to apply, please complete our application form via Apply4Law:

• Please note, candidates should submit their applications to our Legal Assistant Programme no more than a few months prior to their availability to start work with us.
• Candidates who graduated with a law degree three years ago or more are required to undertake the Graduate Legal Essentials course. The 22 week course will be completed once you have joined us and have received a formal offer of training.

Key Responsibilities

To provide a combination of administrative and legal support to Trainees, Lawyers, and Partners, which will involve assisting on transactions, undertaking due diligence, making filings at Companies House, dealing with post-completion matters, drafting documents, undertaking legal research and attending meetings/calls with clients.

To carry out any other such reasonable tasks that may be required from time to time.

Your Skills And Qualifications

• To have excellent academics and first-class organisation skills.
• To be able to build lasting relationships and have a flexible, can-do attitude to contribute and succeed with Freeths.
• To have excellent communication skills and be a real team player with a flexible and professional approach to work.
• Good IT skills, experience, and confidence with using Microsoft packages.
• To be hard working and able to consistently demonstrate and embody the firm’s values

Highlights

• Listed in The Times Best Law Firms 2023
• Ranked 47th in The Lawyer magazine’s Top 100 UK law firms 2022
• Winner of Equality Trailblazer of the Year at the Chamber Business Awards 2021
• Winner of The Lawyer Litigation Team of the Year 2020
• Ranked 51st in the Social Mobility Employer Index 2020
• Winner of the ‘Mental Health & Wellbeing Award’ at the UK Diversity Legal Awards 2019
• ‘Diversity Champion’ for Stonewall – a charity supporting LGBT rights

Do we sound like a match? If you’re someone who cares deeply, communicates openly and collaborates effectively, then we’d love to have you join our diverse, inclusive team.