Legal Support Assistant - Southampton, United Kingdom - Foot Anstey LLP

Foot Anstey LLP

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Southampton, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Are you an experienced Legal Secretary looking for an opportunity to join a Succession and Tax team with a leading UK law firm based in Bristol or Southampton? This is a rapidly growing area of our firm, and you can expect plenty of opportunity to develop your skill set and to be involved in some interesting and challenging work. This is a superb opportunity if you are looking to use your existing legal secretarial experience to take responsibility for the progression of legal cases from start to finish in a leading UK law firm.

At Foot Anstey our people, like our values, are at the very heart of our business. You will be working in an agile environment as a central team member.

With a huge technology agenda on the horizon for the Foot Anstey group you will be exposed to new and creative ways of working which will enhance not only your IT ability but allow for a more client focused approach.

What you'll do:

Offer full Legal Secretarial support to the fee earners within a fast paced team
Take responsibility for all travel and diary management ensuring the fee earners have everything required for their meetings
File management tasks to ensure full compliance with practices including, Lexcel, Code of Conduct, and antiMoney Laundering
Produce and amend precedent letters and Housestyle documents (including dictation)
Respond to queries from clients and other stakeholders on behalf of your fee earners, ensuring excellent and clear communication at all times

What we're looking for

You will be able to demonstrate a proven track record of providing high quality secretarial support within a legal or professional services environment.

With excellent clear, concise, and effective written communication skills you will also possess great attention to detail and have strong Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills.

Strong organisational skills are a must in the role as is the ability and confidence to communicate effectively with our stakeholders whilst dealing with highly confidential information with tact and sensitivity.

Our offer to you
In return for your efforts, you can expect considerable scope for personal as well as professional development.

We encourage people to engage with our popular and well supported coaching and mentoring programmes, which connect you to people right across the firm and at every level.

We create space for mental and physical wellbeing with our weekly Lifestyle Hour, 28 days annual leave, a day off for your birthday, and a sabbatical you can take every 5 years.

You can also buy holiday and manage your benefits flexibly using our sophisticated portal to configure your total reward offer according to what you value most.

As part of this, you can make ongoing or one-off donations to our charitable foundation and access our CSR programme where you can engage with community-based initiatives (as a team, or individually) twice a year, to give something back where you feel it matters.

Why Foot Anstey?

As one of the UK's fastest growing law firms, Foot Anstey believes in helping our clients and people achieve their ambitions, unlocking new and exciting opportunities.

Our team of business and legal advisors are motivated by understanding clients' goals and collaborating with them and other advisers to deliver solutions.

By becoming our clients' most trusted advisor, we are enabling them to achieve their ambitions. How we do it is just as important as what we do.

Our values define the way we act with our clients and one another every day, and because of these we think our culture and environment sets us apart.

Over our history we've grown from a high-street firm to a significant regional and national player working with leading brands and individuals predominantly across six key sectors: Private Equity, Retail & Consumer, Energy & Infrastructure, Islamic Finance, Developers and Private Wealth.

Our strategy of gaining market share through meeting clients' needs, investing in and developing high quality talent and using technology and innovation to enhance our services has led to significant growth.

We now operate from seven locations:
Truro, Plymouth, Exeter, Taunton, Bristol, Southampton, and London.

Our people are central to our success, in every part of the business.

We actively support our employees to achieve their aspirations through offering meaningful careers with balanced rewards, which have been carefully designed to focus on personal wellbeing.

We offer continual opportunities for support and professional development through our Talent Development programme and Digital Skills Academy, and believe in empowering each other to achieve and strive to create a progressive and inclusive working environment.

Being forward-thinking, we are open to discussing flexible working patterns for all of our vacancies, with over 40% of our existing employees having a permanent flexible working pattern.

In addition, our impressive suite of flexible benefits will enable you