The role as Legal PA, Commercial Dispute Resolution
This is a fantastic opportunity to join our friendly and supportive Dispute Resolution team, providing first-class professional PA support to a number of fee-earners.
The Legal PA will be an integral part of our busy Commercial Dispute Resolution team (which sits under the wider Dispute Resolution department) and will work principally for named fee-earners, but also as part of our PA team with shared responsibilities. We’re looking for an experienced Legal PA who can prioritise and delegate effectively, with excellent communication and organisation skills.
Role responsibility of Legal PA, Commercial Dispute Resolution
The Team
This role sits within the Commercial Dispute Resolution team, which is part of our Dispute Resolution Department. The team are incredibly collaborative and social; as well as principally assisting your fee-earners, we always seek to support one another and pull together to provide seamless and complete support to our fee-earner population, whose wok includes many interesting, ground-breaking cases.
Our Commercial Dispute Resolution team serves a wide range of entrepreneurial clients, from individuals through to larger, cross-jurisdictional organisations. The team’s experience covers all forms of commercial dispute resolution including litigation (both domestic and overseas), appellant work, arbitration, and mediation. We work across a wide range of sectors and deploy a bespoke strategy based on our clients’ specific commercial objectives and budgets.
Principal Tasks and Responsibilities of Legal PA, Commercial Dispute Resolution
*Proactively manage and maintain fee-earner diaries, making appointments and co-ordinating internal and external client meetings including ensuring fee earners have relevant materials required for any meetings, the booking of meeting rooms, video conference facilities, refreshments, restaurants, taxis etc.
*Making extensive travel arrangements (domestic and foreign), producing itineraries and ensuring expenses claims are completed.
*Management of fee-earners’ inboxes when they are out of the office; monitoring and responding to emails, prioritising correspondence to enable fee earners to focus on urgent matters and using initiative to route emails to the appropriate individuals for swift response and action; wherever possible, responding to and filing emails in to iManage.
*Onboarding new clients by following compliance rules, to include requesting official KYC documentation, managing opening of new matters.
*Acting as the key contact point for internal and external queries posed to the fee-earners who you support.
*Producing documentation as required - typing, drafting and amending documents, letters and correspondence where appropriate and proofreading all work to ensure consistent accuracy and high standard.
*Preparation of account forms and coordination of the end-to-end billing process and Elite 3E financial reporting; assisting fee-earners by liaising with the billing team, producing the relevant documentation and reports, and prompting fee-earners to complete all necessary paperwork etc.
*Bundling - both electronic and hardcopy (copying; compiling; preparing an index; paginating).
*Undertaking research using the internet, databases etc.
*Liaising with clients, Counsel and other external parties.
*Supporting other PAs where required, especially during any absence.
*Using initiative to take responsibility of administration that will assist the fee earners.
*Ensuring all correspondence/documentation is correctly electronically filed on iManage.
About you
Ideally you will be able to demonstrate;
*Experience in a demanding, high performing professional services environment (preferably in Dispute Resolution but not essential)
*Extremely well organised with excellent diary management and time management skills.
*Excellent oral and written communication skills.
*Display a high level of attention to detail.
*A proactive, flexible and self-motivated approach.
*A strong team player.
*Knowledge of Microsoft packages such as Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
*Experience with BigHand, Elite 3E, iManage/FileSite would be advantageous.
Additional Information / Systems Used
*Microsoft Outlook 2010
*Microsoft Word 2010
*Microsoft Teams
*Microsoft PowerPoint 2010
*Microsoft Excel 2010
*PDF Docs/Acrobat Reader/Bundledocs
*iManage
*BigHand Digital Dictation System
*Elite 3E
*InTapp Time
*My Performance Leader
*Docusign
*HubShare