Legal Recruitment & Executive Search Specialist
Contract
Full-Time
Senior Practice Assistant – Charity and Community
A top UK Law firm is looking to hire a new Senior Practice Assistant on an initial 10-month FTC, to support the Charity & Community team with all secretarial and administration duties.
This role will be to work 9.30am – 5.30pm, two days a week in the office, 3 at home. The firm are offering a competitive salary, plus great benefits.
Responsibilities as a Senior Practice Assistant within Charity & Community will include effective and proactive diary management, and awareness of Fee Earners’ workloads to plan ahead, with minimal supervision, processing relevant applications, forms or searches, researching new clients/contacts and prepares bios before meetings, and conducts basic research (on-line or otherwise) for Fee Earners when required, arranging travel and any other activities on behalf of Fee Earners, creating typed work of a high quality, formatting in accordance with house style, at high speed, with accuracy and following internal guidelines, creating new documents from the Firm’s templates, using contact data from InterAction, preparing bills (including bill narratives), preparing AML documentation and obtains relevant documentation, carrying out conflict searches and correctly identifies the work type. Candidates will be tasked with maintaining up to date knowledge and a strong understanding of Fee Earners’ matters to be able to provide the best level support and assist with training sessions for the team and providing knowledge induction for new team PAs.
Experience from a Charity, Social Enterprise or Not for Profit department of a law firm would be advantageous, however not essential. Excellent written, communication and organisational skills are essential, in addition to excellent attention to detail skills.