Job Description
Legal Assistant
Family Department
Hours: 9am – 5pm
Are you proactive, organised, and keen to play a vital role in a dynamic legal team? At Redkite Solicitors, our Legal Assistants are the driving force that keeps cases progressing — providing essential support to our solicitors, ensuring clients receive exceptional service, and living our values of Trust, Bold Thinking, Teamwork, and Excellence every day. If you thrive under pressure, enjoy variety, and take pride in delivering work with accuracy and care, we’d love to hear from you.
Redkite Solicitors prides itself on offering a broad range of legal services that meet the diverse needs of our clients. Since 1898, we’ve been providing trusted legal advice to individuals, families, and businesses in our communities, supporting them every step of the way. Today, we are a forward-looking, ever-expanding firm with around 250 dedicated staff members, and we’re proud to be recognised as an employer of choice.
Based at our Cardiff office, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a Legal Assistant to join our Family Team on a full-time, permanent contract. This role will see you working closely with solicitors and other team members to provide essential administrative and case management support, helping us deliver the best possible outcomes for our clients. The ability to multi-task with confidence — balancing deadlines, maintaining accurate records, and handling sensitive client matters with professionalism and empathy — will be key to your success in this role.
What you’ll do:
* Assist Fee Earners with organising and prioritising their caseload to improve client service and case progression
* Provide day-to-day support, including drafting letters and documents, conducting legal research, and liaising with clients
* Manage administrative tasks such as file opening, billing, and general case management
* Support Fee Earners with handling new client enquiries
* Take responsibility for new enquiries directed to the department, ensuring clients are updated accurately and within appropriate timeframes
Who you are:
* Dynamic, team-oriented, and committed to delivering excellence
* Shares Redkite’s ethos of bold thinking, ambition, and high-quality client service
* Interested in playing an active role within the department and wider business
* Confident communicator, both written and verbal
* Strong organisational and self-management skills
* Friendly, approachable, and able to build strong working relationships
* Proactive, focused, and driven to achieve the best results for clients and colleagues.
What is in it for you?
We’re committed to creating a supportive, inclusive, and high-performing legal team. You’ll be joining colleagues who are not only legally excellent but also commercially astute and down-to-earth. We value trust, boldness, excellence and teamwork — and we want you to thrive as part of that.
* 25 days annual leave entitlement
* Holiday buy and sell scheme
* Contributions to gym membership
* Flexible working considerations
* Career development
* Redkite rewards scheme
If you’re interested in this role please send your CV and covering letter to careers@redkitelaw.co.uk
At Redkite, we are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and supportive workplace where everyone is valued. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, including gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion, and neurodiversity. We are dedicated to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond to ensure all employees can thrive. We believe that diversity strengthens our team and helps us better serve our clients.