Legal Support Assistant - Family

Brabners LLP; Manchester; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading law firm in the UK is seeking a Legal Support Assistant to provide comprehensive administrative support within their Family team. The successful candidate will act as a key point of contact for clients and assist with matters such as managing appointments, preparing court bundles, and ensuring the efficient running of the team’s operations. Offering a competitive salary and numerous benefits, this role is ideal for an organised individual who thrives in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

25 days' holiday increasing to 32

Pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Income protection insurance

Qualifications

• Strong organisational skills demonstrated through managing workloads and deadlines.
• Proficient in handling audio typing and transcription.
• Experience in matter management including file opening and client inception.

Responsibilities

• Act as a point of contact for clients and internal contacts.
• Manage diaries and appointments efficiently.
• Prepare court bundles and manage billing.

Skills

Excellent written and communication skills

Ability to organise and prioritise workload

Flexibility and adaptability

Experience of working within a Family team

Job description

We have a brilliantopportunity for an organised individual to join our Family 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.

What we need from you

• Excellent written and communication skills.
• Ability to organise and prioritise workload.
• Flexibility and adaptability.
• Experience of working within a Family team- desirable

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
• Preparing court bundles
• 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
• Allocating post
• 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.