About the role
We're looking for an experienced Personal Assistant to join our property litigation team on a 12-month fixed term contract.
Job Description
In this role, you will provide comprehensive administrative support to fee earners, ensuring the delivery of seamless legal services to our clients. You will play a proactive role in managing and coordinating all aspects of their day-to‑day workload, delivering exceptional and efficient support.
You will act as the workflow manager for support services, ensuring that tasks such as document production, file management, and copying or scanning are delegated effectively and completed to a high standard. In addition, you will take an active interest in client matters, developing a thorough understanding of their requirements so that you can deliver exceptional service to both fee earners and clients.
About you
* Proven experience as a Personal Assistant or in a similar position, ideally for at least 12 months, demonstrating knowledge of Real Estate Litigation experience and working in a fast‑paced environment.
* Advanced skills in Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint, as well as confidence using research tools and other systems adopted by the firm.
* Professional telephone manner, ability to manage routine client queries and take appropriate action when fee earners are unavailable.
* Strong communication, organisational and teamwork skills, complemented by exceptional attention to detail.
* Flexible, proactive, dependable, results‑driven mindset; calm under pressure, manages tight deadlines and prioritises effectively, confident in taking initiative.
What We Can Offer You
The opportunity to work for a firm recognised as one of the best places to work in the UK and ranked by Great Place to Work® for 25 consecutive years.
Excellent benefits, including:
* A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
* 25 days annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave.
* Free private medical insurance, and the option to add family members.
* A generous pension allowance.
* Life assurance covering four times your annual salary.
* The chance of a three‑month sabbatical every five years.
* Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes.
* A range of health and wellbeing programmes.
* State‑of‑the‑art offices in Birmingham, with an onsite restaurant.
* Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development.
Equal Opportunities
Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re‑assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.
At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.
Contact
If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description, please contact Meg Astley at meg.astley@gowlingwlg.com.
Location
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Administrative
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