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About Turcan Connell
We are trusted and respected legal and tax planning experts and our approach to providing a personal, discreet and tailored service is key to our success since the firm was established in 1997. The Firm acts on behalf of individuals, entrepreneurs, landowners and works with charities, philanthropists, and trustees to guide and manage complex legal and financial affairs on their behalf. Our values make our clients feel looked after.
With a close-knit team of around 230 colleagues including 26 Partners across offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow and London, Turcan Connell's comprehensive service covers everything required for efficient tax, estate and succession planning as well as advice on the many aspects of land and property management and transactional activity. We also handle the complexities of divorce and family law, employment law and dispute resolution advice and provide a range of business law services to our clients.
Opportunity
We have exciting opportunities for full-time PAs to join our Office Services Team in our Edinburgh office on permanent basis. The PAs will primarily work with our Tax & Succession teams. The full-time hours are 33.75 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
The roles will principally be based in our Edinburgh office, initially fully office based, but in the long term the Firm supports a hybrid working approach through our Smarter Working policy. The successful candidates will provide a proactive and comprehensive PA service to Partners & Fee earners to enable them to focus their time on providing legal services to clients.
As a PA you will be managing diaries, ensuring these are kept up-to-date and include all meetings and periods of absence (e.g. holidays, etc.) as well as preparing and distributing meeting packs/working papers in advance of diarised meetings. The PA will arrange internal and external meetings including the booking of rooms, arranging refreshments and equipment as required. checking rooms prior to meetings and liaising with other attendees.
As a PA you will monitor the Partners email inbox and respond to emails as required. The role will also take telephone calls and taking accurate messages where required and passing messages on in a timely manner, or deal with the enquiry where appropriate. PAs arrange travel requirements for the team.
The PAs within Tax & Succession provide each other with assistance as required. PAs also complete our CMI and AML processes for their teams and assist fee-earners in organising Business Development and Marketing activities as required.
As a PA you will also assist and liaise with fee-earners and the Finance team for any financial matters including Cashroom and Billing tasks e.g. raising bank transfers requests and assisting in the production of fee letters/emails and Aderant reporting.
The successful candidate will ensure out-going mail and enclosures are ready for collection by the mailroom. All documentation should be signed and sealed, where possible and should be ready in a timely manner. In addition, you will monitor post and/or e-mails as required and ensuring all relevant client related correspondence is direct to the appropriate fee earner.
Person Specification
The successful candidates will have previous PA experience, Legal PA experience would be advantageous but is not essential.
Strong organisation and confident communication skills will be essential as is experience using Microsoft Office packages and digital dictation. Full training will be given on other platforms which are used in the business. You will have strong attention to detail and interpersonal skills with the ability to work on own initiative and prioritise own workload.
A high level of discretion and confidentiality is a requirement of this role as you will be exposed to sensitive information.
Turcan Connell will provide you with the opportunity to build on your career and realise your ambitions in an environment with an unrivalled reputation, and a commitment to our colleagues as individuals. We invest in the development of our talent and provide outstanding training opportunities within a congenial working environment. We have a very strong team across the Firm, and many of our colleagues have chosen to invest their whole career at the Firm. Through living our Firm's values, we want to make you feel looked after.