Average Legal Manager salary in Bristol

Dawn Ellmore Employment are working with a top-rate law firm in Bristol, who are looking for a Legal Administrator to join their team on a full-time and permanent basis. What experience will you need? Ideally, you will have strong administrative experience from within a professional services environment. Excellent organisation and strong deadline management skills will be essential. The tasks within this role will be related to handling the renewal of clients’ intellectual property. Please see below examples of duties: Acknowledging and preparing appropriate correspondence to clients.Handling cases, noting important deadlines.Answering any renewals queries, preparing timely responses.Updating case records, ensuring all information is correct and accurately dated.Obtaining the relevant documents required for renewals. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a forward-thinking firm, where you will be able to progress and build a great career. Apply now. Dawn Ellmore Employment aims to respond to all applicants, however due to the number of applications received this is regrettably not always possible. If you have not received a response within three working days, you may assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

Legal Project ManagerBristol hybrid working available£55,000 - £65,000 + excellent company benefits Are you a project manager looking to make a real impact in the legal sector? This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking UK law firm renowned for delivering innovative and effective solutions to complex legal challenges. The firm works with a diverse client base, including major public and private sector organisations, SMEs, and high-net-worth individuals. As part of the firm’s growing Legal Project Management (LPM) function, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the efficiency, transparency, and delivery of legal services. This is a chance to work in a highly collaborative environment, engaging directly with legal teams and clients to shape the future of legal project management. Key Responsibilities of the Legal Project Manager Project Leadership: Provide expert project management support on client-facing legal matters, ensuring they run smoothly, efficiently, and on time.Strategic Collaboration: Work closely with clients and legal teams to understand their goals and deliver tailored LPM solutions.Process & Innovation: Develop and implement project management tools, methodologies, and best practices to enhance service delivery.Governance & Structure: Establish clear project frameworks, governance models, and reporting mechanisms to drive accountability.Risk & Resource Management: Oversee project plans, risks, budgets, KPIs, and resource allocation to ensure optimal outcomes.Continuous Improvement: Lead project meetings, track performance, and identify opportunities to refine processes and improve legal matter management. Skills & Attributes of the Legal Project Manager Proven experience as a Project Manager or Management Consultant, ideally within a law firm or professional services environment.Strong understanding of legal operations, process improvement, or service delivery in a corporate or legal setting.Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage effectively at all levels.Commercially aware, client-focused approach with a keen eye for driving efficiencies and value.A problem-solving mindset with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.A proactive, "can-do" attitude, with a passion for optimising performance through both technology and people. This role offers a fantastic opportunity for a project manager looking to embed LPM best practices and drive meaningful change in legal service delivery. If you thrive on improving processes, enhancing collaboration, and delivering results, we’d love to hear from you. Applications can only be considered from those eligible to live & work in the UK without restriction. Harcourt Matthews is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Harcourt Matthews is committed to diversity and inclusion. We value and encourage applications from all ethnicities and welcome everyone regardless of social background, disability, gender identity, and orientation. Diversity benefits us all and challenges our assumptions. Ref: BHJOB3543_57972

Kennedys is looking for a Legal Secretary to join our Bristol office. The successful Legal Secretary will provide an efficient, proactive and comprehensive secretarial service to a busy team of fee earners. Team Kennedys' professional liability team deal with all areas of professional liability and handle claims of all sizes and complexity, including insurers who underwrite some of the world's largest financial institutions, global law firms, the 'Big Four' accounting firms, as well as insurers who underwrite regional, local and smaller institutions and firms. Key responsibilities Thorough diary management arrange meetings and manage changes as and when they ariseArrange travel for fee earners and partners both nationally and internationally and process all related expensesReport, and assist in resolving, any IT issues for self, fee earners and partnersBuild relationships with clients, including responding to clients specific requests for information and going the extra mile to assist themAssist proactively with billing and credit control queries.Creating electronic court bundles including preparing the indexGathering/sorting documents for bundlePaginating and hyper-linking court bundlesSubmitting court documents via the e-file portalPreparing exhibits to witness statementsCross referencing witness statementsPreparation of standard correspondenceDrafting court formsResponding to insolvency practitioners with financial information to assist with preparation of annual reports (the financial information is extracted from elite) Required experience Previous legal secretarial experienceFast and accurate touch typing skillsProficient in MS Office packagesKnowledge of case management systems. Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to be made in order to submit your application to Kennedys. *where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.