Junior Legal PA

SC Staff and Consult; City Of London; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

A reputable law firm in London is seeking a Junior Legal PA to support their associates. The role involves preparing legal documents, managing diaries, and assisting with reporting. Ideal candidates will have previous admin experience in a law firm, high IT literacy, and excellent attention to detail. This is a great opportunity for career progression within the legal sector.

Qualifications

• Admin experience in a law firm or legal environment is essential.
• Proactive and enthusiastic approach required.
• Ability to adapt to change and learn efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Prepare hard and soft copy legal documents.
• Manage diary and email for fee-earners.
• Assist in weekly/monthly reporting.
• Conduct proof reading and quality checking.

Skills

Administration experience

High levels of IT literacy

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Time management skills

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Overview

JUNIOR LEGAL PA - Up to £34k

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a world class law firm as a junior legal PA in one of their highly regarded teams! This is a super opportunity to make a progression move into a law firm if you have already gained administration experience from a law firm or legal environment.

Looking after Associates and trainees you will report into a Manager who will be focused on your continual development.

Responsibilities

• Preparation of hard and soft copy engrossments and other legal documents
• Copy-typing and digital dictation as required
• Amending and formatting documents
• PDF conversions
• Assisting with weekly/monthly reporting
• Proof reading and quality checking of documents and correspondence
• Working within Excel documents
• Diary and email management for the fee-earners within your team
• Travel arrangements and handling telephone enquiries as and when required
• Processing fee-earner expenses
• Managing workflow to the Document & Design Centre, Print Room etc as required; proactively taking steps to ensure work is returned within required timescales
• Liaison with Finance and other business support teams
• Assisting across other teams when necessary

About You

You will need to be adaptable to change whilst maintaining a professional approach, demonstrating high levels of client care, organisational and time management skills.

To be considered

You must be able to demonstrate admin experience gained within a law firm and have a proactive and enthusiastic approach with high levels of IT literacy, superb attention to detail and the ability to learn new systems quickly.