Junior Legal PA
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Box Recruitment Solutions are recruiting on behalf of an award-winning global law firm known for its supportive culture, collaborative environment, and excellent long-term career development opportunities.
The primary objective of this role is to provide highly efficient and proactive secretarial and administrative support to a team of fee earners within the Real Estate and Construction team, ensuring the smooth operation of day-to-day activities. Supporting 5 Associates and working closely alongside 4 experienced PAs, this role is integral to enabling fee earners to focus on delivering high-quality legal services through seamless organisational and administrative assistance.
Key Responsibilities
* Understand and assist with billing processes and associated financial management tasks
* Engage with fee earners to support general financial housekeeping and invoicing
* Manage administrative processes for fee earners, utilising appropriate internal resources
* Develop an understanding of matter management processes, gradually increasing responsibility and risk management awareness
* Diary management including forward planning, proactive travel and meeting arrangements, identifying scheduling conflicts and resolving where appropriate
* Support fee earners with day-to-day administrative and organisational tasks
* Adhere to firmwide and divisional Best Practice protocols
* Ensure compliance with firm risk and compliance policies and procedures, escalating issues where appropriate
* Successfully complete all mandatory firm training within required timescales
* Develop skills to support fee earners with business development activities
* Build strong working relationships with fee earners and wider support teams
To apply you will have:
* Around 2 years previous administrative experience within a professional services, law, real estate or corporate business
* Experience supporting senior stakeholders, managers, or fee earners is highly desirable
* Someone genuinely interested in developing a career as a PA
* Strong organisational and prioritisation skills with the ability to manage busy workloads effectively
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including strong grammar and punctuation Strong IT skills, xsngvjr particularly Word, Outlook, Excel and diary management systems
* Ability to work collaboratively within a team while also managing tasks independently
* Please note: law graduates are unlikely to be suitable for this particular role
Training & Development
* Structured 2-year development programme
* Ongoing mentoring, support, and regular check-ins
* Clear opportunity to develop a long-term PA career within the firm
Work arrangement and whats on offer:
* First 4 months: fully office-based, and after probation, hybrid (3 days office, 2 days home)
* 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays plus a holiday buy back scheme
* Interest free travel loan
* Private healthcare
* Gym membership