Practice Executive / Legal Secretary 8 Month FTC - Real Estate

Ashurst; City Of London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international law firm is seeking a Practice Executive to provide proactive business support to Partners in their Real Estate practice in London. This full-time role requires a client-focused individual with excellent communication and organizational skills. Key responsibilities include diary management, meeting coordination, and client interaction. The firm offers competitive remuneration and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Competitive remuneration

Corporate health plans

Global professional development

Diversity and inclusion programs

Qualifications

• Previous experience as an Executive in a law firm or professional services environment.
• Client-focused approach with strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to draft professional correspondence, documents, and slide packs.

Responsibilities

• Manage diaries and complex travel for two Partners.
• Coordinate and delegate meeting requirements, including scheduling across time zones.
• Monitor inboxes and draft responses to reduce volume.

Skills

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Teamwork

Technical skills in MS Office (Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel)

Job description

The Opportunity:

The Practice Executive is a key role in the Legal Operations Support team, based in London.

Reporting into one of our Assistant Operations Managers, the purpose of the role to to provide high level, proactive business support to an allocation of Partners ensuring the effective completion of tasks using appropriate resources such as the Local Hub and Global Shared Services.

This role will support two Partners within the Real Estate practice group. This is a full-time role based in our London office, on an initial 8 month fixed term contract.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Active diary management and gatekeeping, including coordinating complex travel and resource requirements
• Manage, track and coordinate the review of WIP and matter billings with the relevant associate/partner
• Coordinating, or delegating as appropriate, meeting requirements (room bookings, attendee invitations, resources, catering), including scheduling arrangements across time zones.
• Monitoring and managing inboxes, using initiative to re-route or prioritise, and action or draft response for review in order to reduce volume
• Attending client meetings when required to reinforced business contacts and take notes, actions points for follow up

More information can be found in the job description attached below.

About you:

The successful candidate will have:

• Previous experience as an Executive in a law firm or other professional services environment
• A client focussed approach with well-developed communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to provide professional and appropriate first drafts of short correspondence, documents and slide packs
• Excellent organisation skills, with the ability to cope with a wide range of demands and changing priorities
• Experiencing working well within teams, and able to re-prioritise when needed to meet urgent deadlines or changed priorities
• Strong technical skills in MS Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Exce

What makes Ashurst a great place to work?

We offer you all the things you should expect from an international law firm, some of which include:

• competitive remuneration with the flexibility to reward high performance;
• corporate health plans;
• a global professional development offering for all employees; and
• an industry-leading programme that celebrates diversity and inclusion.

We are committed to delivering positive impacts to our communities through our Social Impact programme.

We aim to recruit, retain and promote the best people from the widest possible talent pools. We are committed to offering a safe and welcoming environment for all employees to ensure they are supported to work at their best.

Beyond this, what sets Ashurst apart from others is our global strength, our drive to innovate and collaborate, and our commitment to excellence. It is these values that make Ashurst a unique place to work.