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Legal Support Assistant

Kennedys Law - UK

Liverpool City Region

Remote

GBP 25,000 - 35,000

Full time

Yesterday
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Job summary

A leading law firm is seeking a Legal Support Assistant to join their busy LSA Team. This remote role involves administrative tasks such as transcribing dictations, formatting documents, and ensuring deadlines are met. The ideal candidate will have previous secretarial experience and a good understanding of legal practices.

Qualifications

  • Previous secretarial/Document Production experience.
  • Competent knowledge about legal practice.
  • Proficient in word processing/office software.

Responsibilities

  • Transcribing dictations and formatting documents.
  • Identifying key dates and liaising with the team.
  • Producing high-quality documents in house style.

Skills

Document Production
Legal Practice Knowledge
Word Processing

Job description

Kennedys is looking for a Legal Support Assistant to join our busy LSA Team. The role will include transcribing dictations, copy typing, formatting of large documents and a wide range of administrative tasks. The LSA will need to identify key dates/deadlines, liaising with the team to make sure all deadlines are met in a timely manner. This will be a remote based role, and working the hours of 2pm until 10pm. There is flexibility around these hours.

Team

Kennedys LSA team have a key role contributing to the effectiveness of the Firm by providing a comprehensive admin support service for Kennedys across all teams – UK and increasingly global.

Key responsibilities

  • Work methodically within Service Desk and BigHand and be aware of the work priorities. Work with the team in order that priority work is undertaken in a quick and efficient manner and that time is then spent on both the important and urgent work
  • Grow strong relationships within the LSA team, Team Leaders and wider Secretarial team and firm.
  • Follow correct procedures, instructions and protocols which will differ for each team
  • Produce a consistently high quality and quantity of work, produce a variety of documents from handwritten/type written drafts. Format documents into house style and transcribe digital dictation from BigHand as well as various administrative tasks that the team are asked to undertake.

Required experience

  • Previous secretarial/Document Production experience
  • Competent knowledge about legal practice
  • Proficient in word processing/office software.

Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to be made in order to submit your application to Kennedys.

  • where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.
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