Legal Assistant
Southwark Council Agency Job role for
Legal Assistant
Job Summary;
To provide legal and administrative support to professional staff. Responding to requests for legal services, preparing routine legal letters, and maintaining information and records.
Candidate Profile
1. Relevant experience as a Legal Secretary or Administrator within a fee earning environment. Or
Law degree, or equivalent
2. Working knowledge of Microsoft Office at a level to compile; reports (including embedded tables / diagrams), correspondence, presentations, maintaining spreadsheets, meeting arrangements.
3. Knowledge of how equal opportunities principles apply in administrative and customer services.
4. Literacy skills in order to research and produce reports, management information, non-standard correspondence, minutes and accurate records of meetings.
5. Numeracy skills in order to compile statistical and financial information and undertake complex calculations.
Administrative experience, ideally in a legal environment, will include:
Interpreting policy/ procedural guidance, where courses of action are not clear, and advise others accordingly
Compiling and maintaining records and administrative systems both manual and computerised
Managing manual and IT records to achieve efficiency and confidentiality
Using a wide range of office equipment and ICT software
Organising and prioritising a workload, managing conflicting demands.
Working in a customer focused environment,
Experience of composing written materials that meet customers' needs:-
original correspondence,
appropriate use of e-mail
reports,
administration of meetings including note/minute taking
8. Good interpersonal skills and the ability to encourage positive working relationships with staff and colleagues
Legal Assistant
Job Summary;
To provide legal and administrative support to professional staff. Responding to requests for legal services, preparing routine legal letters, and maintaining information and records.
Candidate Profile
1. Relevant experience as a Legal Secretary or Administrator within a fee earning environment. Or
Law degree, or equivalent
2. Working knowledge of Microsoft Office at a level to compile; reports (including embedded tables / diagrams), correspondence, presentations, maintaining spreadsheets, meeting arrangements.
3. Knowledge of how equal opportunities principles apply in administrative and customer services.
4. Literacy skills in order to research and produce reports, management information, non-standard correspondence, minutes and accurate records of meetings.
5. Numeracy skills in order to compile statistical and financial information and undertake complex calculations.
Administrative experience, ideally in a legal environment, will include:
Interpreting policy/ procedural guidance, where courses of action are not clear, and advise others accordingly
Compiling and maintaining records and administrative systems both manual and computerised
Managing manual and IT records to achieve efficiency and confidentiality
Using a wide range of office equipment and ICT software
Organising and prioritising a workload, managing conflicting demands.
Working in a customer focused environment,
Experience of composing written materials that meet customers' needs:-
original correspondence,
appropriate use of e-mail
reports,
administration of meetings including note/minute taking
8. Good interpersonal skills and the ability to encourage positive working relationships with staff and colleagues