Commercial PA

Legal PA

£40,000 per annum

Well established law firm

Dynamic forward thinking environment

This incredibly high profile law firm are looking for a Legal PA to join their Commercial team. This is a real opportunity to join a firm who truly believe in career development and a supportive culture.

In this role you will support an allocation of 1 Partner and the wider team of fee earners. Duties required but not limited to are:

• Extensive and proactive diary management
• Work to ensure unique and individual support needs are understood for each lawyer
• Pre-empt needs for enhanced or specific support at times when individuals might be under additional pressure
• Ensure 'quality control' forms part of regular work flow patterns, whereby any work that is delegated to another team is thoroughly checked before it is returned
• Complete appropriate/necessary DP tasks to the highest standards and ensuring house style requirements are met
• Prepare PowerPoint presentations
• Take the initiative of overseeing adhoc administrative projects for the lawyers, for example, archiving, confidential shredding, photocopying, organising filing systems
• Liaise with relevant parties to arrange meetings; booking internal rooms; ensuring the appropriate room setups are in place; and that refreshments are booked and confirmed
• Liaise with and co-ordinate meeting attendees, both internal and external, ensuring all parties have the relevant information ahead of time
• Proactively prepare and collate papers ahead of meetings
• Co-ordinate travel arrangements
• Support lawyers in marketing activities including involvement in the preparation of pitch documents and presentations
• Act in a professional and courteous manner when dealing with clients (including internal clients), potential clients and third parties
• Assist in arranging internal and external events
• Capture and manage contact and client relationship data in the Firm's CRM system maintaining any existing information
• Become an active part in the care of clients and look for opportunities to build relationships with client contacts and PAs where appropriate
• Proactively deal with incoming and outgoing mail
• Action emails and manage inbox for the Partners
• Assist lawyers with billing and credit control by liaising with Accounts and preparing bill narratives and draft cost details

To be successful in your application you will need to hold

• Experience of working in a similar environment
• Experience of supporting at Partner level within a practice area in a law firm ideally a city firm
• Be a forward thinking and hold the ability to horizon scan where possible
• Be efficient and highly organised
• Be looking to join a firm who have an incredible well known culture and be valued for the work that you do

If this Support Legal PA role sounds like you then apply now!