We are currently looking for an Apprentice Trainee Legal Support Assistant to join our Property Litigation team in our Cardiff office. This is a two-year fixed term contract with the potential to become permanent.
The successful applicant will spend one day a week at college studying a Business Administration Level 3 Apprenticeship. The other four days will be office based.
An example of the Roles and Responsibilities:
1. Provide administrative and legal support to assigned fee earners, including dealing with email and telephone instructions in order of priority from assigned fee earners
2. Assist and work cooperatively with other LSAs to provide support to other/non-assigned fee earners as appropriate
3. Prompt administration of files including:
4. opening files running conflict checks, obtaining AML documents, creating the e-file and all relevant sub-files
5. initial conduct of matters preparing template letters of engagement and terms of business (if client-specific, check LSA and populate rates/fee estimate for the fee earners to check/confirm); ordering searches and managing the timely return of the same; order title, plans and copy documents from Land Registry portal as appropriate, save down relevant precedent documents into the e-file
6. ongoing conduct of matters updating reports accordingly
7. closing files organising deeds/documents and accounts/billing (see below),...