Legal Pa - Birmingham, United Kingdom - CLD Recruitment (Leeds) Ltd

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Legal PA
Birmingham
Up to £27,500
12 Months FTC
Excellent company benefits
My client, a large well known corporate company seek an Legal PA to join their Birmingham office. You will be responsible for providing a high quality support service to the lawyers, utilising available resources as appropriate.

The role is based within the firm's Corporate & Commercial and Employment, Pensions & Immigration National Service Lines (NSL) as well as providing support to other NSLs in our growing office.

The role will work alongside the Document Production Specialistsand Administration Assistants whilst providing support to 4-5 fee earners

Duties include:

  • Assessing, managing and prioritising own work flow, delegating relevant tasks to the Administrative Assistants
  • Responsible for ensuring relevant documentation is available
  • Prepare and distribute agendas, itineraries and meeting papers including chasing any pending items to ensure lawyers have adequate time for planning
  • Ensure lawyers diaries are managed and maintained, including but not limited to organising/arranging events/travel, ensuring all ancillary arrangements made, work and activities are scheduled, any potential challenges resolved to make the lawyers day to dayworking easier to manage
  • Responsible for compliance and money laundering requirements
  • Ensure outstanding attention to detail, sense and quality check all work and identify quality issues and address problems prior to lawyer review

Skills Required:

  • Experience as a PA or Secretary and ideally within a legal environment
  • Experience of providing support to multiple people i.e. diary management, arranging travel/events
  • Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office systems; Outlook and Word
  • Ability to work as part of a team and establishes good working relationships at all levels
  • Excellent planning and organisational skills
  • Must be flexible and willing to work additional hours as the role demands
  • Provides outstanding client service at all times
  • Is able to communicate clearly and effectively at all levels
  • Has excellent presentational and attention to detail skills
  • Remains calm under pressure

To be considered for this role you must be able to demonstrate previous experience working within a Secretarial/ PA / EA role ideally from a fast paced professional corporate environment.

CLD Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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