Legal Support Assistant - Family

Brabners; Preston; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading law firm in the UK is seeking a Legal Support Assistant to join their Family team in Preston. The successful candidate will provide comprehensive PA and administrative support, assisting fee earners in maximizing their potential and developing their practice. This role offers a competitive salary, flexible working conditions, and various benefits, including generous holiday options and a pension scheme. The ideal candidate should possess strong communication skills and the ability to manage a dynamic workload effectively.

Benefits

25 days holiday (increasing to 32)

Pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Income protection insurance

Colleague committees for community impact

Qualifications

• Strong written and verbal communication skills are a must.
• Ability to manage a varied workload effectively.
• Desirable: experience in a Family team setting.

Responsibilities

• Act as a point of contact for clients and internal/external stakeholders.
• Manage matter files and prepare court bundles.
• Oversee monthly billing and diary management tasks.
• Perform audio typing and transcription as required.
• Maintain administrative systems and procedures.

Skills

Excellent written and communication skills

Ability to organise and prioritise workload

Flexibility and adaptability

Experience of working within a Family team

Job description

We have a brilliant opportunity for an organised individual to join our Family team!

The Legal Support Assistant will be responsible for providing a comprehensive, proactive PA and administrative support service, showing initiative and working unprompted, enabling fee earners to maximise their fee earning potential and develop their practice.

What we need from you

• Excellent written and communication skills.
• Ability to organise and prioritise workload.
• Flexibility and adaptability.
• Experience of working within a Family team – desirable.

What you'll be doing

• Acting as a point of contact for clients (new and existing) and internal and external contacts.
• Matter management, to include file opening/client inception.
• Preparing court bundles.
• Manage accurate monthly delivery of volume bills.
• Diary management, including making appointments and bookings, diarising hearings and deadlines.
• Audio typing/transcription of dictation and documents where required by the fee earners.
• Allocating post.
• Submitting expense claims.
• Providing prompts and reminders for fee earners’ important tasks and deadlines.
• Assisting with the preparation of standard form correspondence.
• Implementing and maintaining administrative systems and procedures.

Benefits

Our successful candidate will have an incredible opportunity to develop a rewarding and successful career with an award-winning law firm in a flexible and agile working environment.

We provide a competitive salary and benefits package, including 25 days’ holiday (increasing to 32 days through our loyalty recognition programme) plus the option to purchase an extra five days each year.

We also offer a pension scheme, private medical insurance, life assurance and income protection insurance, as well as plenty of opportunities to get involved in our colleague committees to make a real impact in the local community.

About Brabners

Brabners is purpose‑led independent law firm. A certified B Corp with award‑winning environmental credentials, we seek to demonstrate that business can bring about positive change by being innovative, diverse and sustainable.

With over 200 years of history, we’re proudly anchored in the North but serve businesses and individuals across England and Wales.

We have won awards for being innovative at the Legal 500 Northern Powerhouse Awards and diverse as Manchester Law Society’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Champions. We are also recognised as one of the 25 best large companies to work for in the UK and have won The Legal 500 Future Lawyers awards for job satisfaction, quality of work, social life and work/life balance.

We have a number of colleague‑led affinity groups including for LGBTQ+, REACH, physical and mental health and social mobility, as well as a sustainability, environmental and green group.

It’s all part of how we make the difference.