Job Description
Legal Support Assistant
Join our dynamic team as a Support Assistant, you'll play a pivotal role in providing administrative and solicitor support. This position requires a blend of technical proficiency, exceptional organisational skills, and effective communication abilities. You'll be integral to ensuring the smooth operation of our branch and supporting the firm's overarching goals.
Key Responsibilities
We’re looking for someone who can work independently and thrive in a busy environment, with the ability to proactively manage their workload and meet deadlines with accuracy. The ideal candidate will have both technical and administrative experience within a legal setting, including drafting correspondence and completing legal forms and documents for clients, courts, and third parties.
Excellent attention to detail is essential, as the role involves extracting and interpreting key information from case files. Strong communication and client care skills are also important, along with the ability to empathise with vulnerable clients. Proficiency in Microsoft Office is required, and the ability to quickly learn and adapt to new systems is expected. Full training will be provided on our internal systems and processes.
About You
This is an excellent opportunity for an organised and highly motivated individual who is committed to delivering outstanding service. The role involves providing comprehensive administrative support across a wide range of tasks, requiring efficiency, attention to detail, and a proactive approach. You will work closely with lawyers and support colleagues on a diverse caseload, including high-profile and complex matters, playing a key role in ensuring we deliver the best possible outcomes for the clients we represent.
Benefits
* Contributory pension scheme
* 5 days additional leave over Christmas
* Permanent health insurance
* Healthcare Cash Plan (Medicash)
* Life assurance
* 23 days annual leave (in addition to bank holidays)
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
* Cycle to work scheme
* Subsidised sports and social club
* Annual travel and parking loans
* Financial assistance for professional development
About Thompsons Solicitors
For 100 years, leading social justice law firm, Thompsons Solicitors, has been fighting for the rights of the injured and mistreated and changing lives for the better. Since 1921, we have stood shoulder-to-shoulder with trade unions to implement key legal reforms and give a voice to those who might otherwise have been disadvantaged and marginalised.
Thompsons ran:
• the case that established the right for injured workers to be compensated in 1937
• the first asbestos case that was successful in the House of Lords in 1972
• the first equal pay for equal value claim in the UK (1988) and later in Europe (1993)
• the case against UK construction companies for blacklisting union members in 2016
• hundreds of cases on behalf of women who received negligent treatment at the hands of disgraced breast surgeon, Ian Paterson (2017) and behalf of those injured by mesh (2019).
Today, Thompsons employs 800 staff who work at 18 offices right across the UK. Key areas of legal specialism include: personal injury, serious injury, asbestos diseases, medical negligence, road traffic accidents, accidents at work, industrial diseases and trade union law. As a point of principle, the firm has never worked for employers or insurers.
Over the last 100 years, we have consistently won the cases that have advanced the law for working people, but, as long as there are employers who put profit before the safety and rights of their workforce, there is always more to do. We continue to expose injustice, holding those responsible to account and campaigning for positive change.
We want to hear from anyone who is keen to progress a legal career with a firm that won’t let up in its quest for fairness.