Legal Assistant

Diamond Search Recruitment Ltd; England; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking an experienced Conveyancing Legal Assistant in Gravesend to provide efficient legal secretarial and administrative support. You will assist fee-earners with various tasks, including correspondence preparation and file management. The ideal candidate should have strong word-processing skills and recent practical experience in a legal office environment. This role offers competitive benefits including holiday, private healthcare, and referral bonuses.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus statutory and bank holidays

Private healthcare through AXA after six months

Workplace pension via Scottish Widows

30% discount on legal services for staff

25% discount on legal services for immediate family

Referral bonuses for staff introductions

£100 no sick bonus for full attendance

Annual black-tie Christmas party

Firm-wide summer BBQ/party

Qualifications

• Proficient in digital dictation and word processing.
• Ability to handle competing deadlines efficiently.
• Experience working in a legal office setting is required.

Responsibilities

• Support fee-earners with secretarial and administrative tasks.
• Prepare correspondence from digital dictation accurately and timely.
• Manage the file management system including electronic and paper filing.
• Respond to client needs professionally and courteously.
• Provide Reception cover as needed.

Skills

Excellent word-processing and digital dictation skills

Experience in creating and amending long documents

Ability to manage large volumes of documents and data

Ability to manage a workload with competing deadlines

Practical experience of handling client enquiries

Recent experience of working in a legal office environment

Tools

Microsoft Word

Job description

Diamond Search Recruitment are delighted to be supporting their client in recruiting for an experienced Conveyancing Legal Assistant to join their team in Gravesend. You will support the team s fee-earners by providing competent, efficient and proactive legal secretarial and administration support, including postal and Reception duties, for planned and unplanned shortfalls in secretarial staffing, covering vacancies and staff absences.

Key responsibilities:

• To support one or more fee-earners in the management of the secretarial and administrative workload, ensuring that the priorities of the department are met
• Accurate and timely preparation of correspondence from digital dictation and word processing
• Organisation of the file management system, including maintaining the relevant paper and electronic filing systems and archiving
• Proactively work with fee-earners to ensure relevant documentation is produced to meet clients expectations and the needs of the business
• Respond to internal and external client needs in a timely, professional, helpful and courteous manner
• Ensure that the firm s post is distributed internally and sent out on time
• Provide Reception cover as required for breaks and absences
• Any other tasks which may reasonably be required from time to time

Key skills and knowledge:

• Excellent word-processing and digital dictation skills
• Experience of creation and amendments of long documents
• Ability to manage large volumes of documents and data
• Ability to manage a workload with competing deadlines
• Recent practical experience of using word processing packages (preferably Microsoft Word)
• Practical experience of handling client enquiries both by telephone and face-to-face
• Recent experience of working in a legal office environment

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday plus statutory and bank holidays
• Private healthcare through AXA after six months (optional)
• Workplace pension via Scottish Widows
• 30% discount on all legal services for staff
• 25% discount on legal services for immediate family (parents, siblings, children)
• Referral bonuses for staff introductions (T&Cs apply)
• £100 no sick bonus paid in December for full attendance throughout the year
• Annual black-tie Christmas party and firm-wide summer BBQ/party

Apply today!

Diamond Search Recruitment are acting as an employment agency in regard to this role.