Legal Support Assistant & Real Estate

Brabners LLP; Manchester; On-site; GBP 22,000 - GBP 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading law firm in Manchester is seeking a Legal Support Assistant to provide comprehensive PA and administrative support. Responsibilities include managing client contacts, diary arrangements, billing, and ensuring effective communication within teams. The ideal candidate should possess excellent communication skills and the ability to organise tasks efficiently. This role offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including 25 days of holiday, pension scheme, and opportunities for development in a flexible working environment.

Benefits

25 days holiday (increasing to 32 days)

Pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Income protection insurance

Responsibilities

• Act as a point of contact for clients and internal/external contacts.
• Manage matter management including file opening/client inception.
• Ensure accurate monthly delivery of volume bills.
• Handle diary management including appointments and deadlines.
• Perform audio typing/transcription of dictation.
• Organise and book travel arrangements.
• Submit expense claims.
• Provide reminders for important tasks and deadlines.
• Assist in preparing standard form correspondence.
• Maintain administrative systems and procedures.

Skills

Excellent written and communication skills

Ability to organise and prioritise workload

Flexibility and adaptability

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for an organised individual to join our team!

The Legal Support Assistant will be responsible for providing a comprehensive, proactive PA and administrative support service, showing initiative and working unprompted, enabling fee earners to maximise their fee earning potential and develop their practice.

The team supports our Development, Investment & Property Management, Construction and Housing Development teams.

What we need from you

✔ Excellent written and communication skills.

✔ Ability to organise and prioritise workload.

✔ Flexibility and adaptability.

What you'll be doing

• Acting as a point of contact for clients (new and existing) and internal and external contacts
• Matter management, to include file opening/client inception
• Manage accurate monthly delivery of volume bills
• Diary management, including making appointments and bookings, diarising hearings and deadlines
• Audio typing/transcription of dictation and documents where required by the fee earners
• Organising and booking travel arrangements
• Submitting expense claims
• Providing prompts and reminders for fee earners’ important tasks and deadlines
• Assisting with the preparation of standard form correspondence
• Implementing and maintaining administrative systems and procedures

Benefits

Our successful candidate will have an incredible opportunity to develop a rewarding and successful career with an award-winning law firm in a flexible and agile working environment.

We provide a competitive salary and benefits package, including 25 days’ holiday (increasing to 32 days through our loyalty recognition programme) plus the option to purchase an extra five days each year.

We also offer a pension scheme, private medical insurance, life assurance and income protection insurance, as well as plenty of opportunities to get involved in our colleague committees to make a real impact in the local community.

About Brabners

Brabners is purpose-led independent law firm. A certified B Corp with award-winning environmental credentials, we seek to demonstrate that business can bring about positive change by being innovative, diverse and sustainable.

With over 200 years of history, we’re proudly anchored in the North but serve businesses and individuals across England and Wales.

We have won awards for being innovative at the Legal 500 Northern Powerhouse Awards and diverse as Manchester Law Society’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Champions. We are also recognised as one of the 25 best large companies to work for in the UK and have won The Legal 500 Future Lawyers awards for job satisfaction, quality of work, social life and work/life balance.

We have a number of colleague-led affinity groups including for LGBTQ+, REACH, physical and mental health and social mobility, as well as a sustainability, environmental and green group.

It’s all part of how we make the difference.