Legal Personal Assistant
Job details
The Role Legal PA - South Manchester - Up to £32,000 salary This is a superb opportunity to join an award-winning law firm offering specialist quality Personal Injury legal advice. Due to the development and expansion of the firm’s Clinical Negligence department, the firm is looking to appoint a Legal PA to join the team and assist in driving forward a resilient and progressive legal practice. The ideal candidate will be a self-motivated individual with previous legal secretary / personal assistant experience and knowledge of Personal Injury. Key Responsibilities
- Full support to fee earners, as required, including preparing correspondence and documents
- Opening and maintaining files on the case management system
- Preparing mail and enclosures for dispatch
- Proactively dealing with conflicting diary appointments and an ever-changing diary
- Ensuring a timely response to all communication from both internal and external stakeholders
- Attending to clients, primarily on the telephone, and providing such support in a professional and friendly manner
- Producing and amending legal documentation using digital dictation
- Typing extensive reports to private healthcare; trusts and clinics, clinicians and indemnifiers, and general admin duties
- Collating billing information and producing invoices
- Monitoring fee earners’ e-mails and drafting responses
- Constantly maintaining a high level of confidentiality
- Salary up to £32,000 depending on experience
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays - rising with length of service
- Private health insurance
- Flexible working
- Generous company pension
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