Legal PA

Legal PA 12 Month FTC

Manchester

£34,000

One of our leading clients in Manchester is recruiting for a Legal PA to provide comprehensive PA and secretarial support to the Partners and Legal Advisors in the Dispute Resolution & Litigation team.

This role demands proactive thinking, exceptional organization, and the ability to use initiative to meet the team's needs.

This role is ideal for a candidate with strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to anticipate and address the needs of a busy legal team.

• Proactively managing diaries, resolving conflicts, and ensuring efficient scheduling. Coordinating meetings, travel arrangements, hotels, and related logistics.
• Collaborating with the team to manage and develop client relationships, organizing internal and external meetings and events to maximize the Partners' time.
• Completing and submitting file opening forms, liaising with the Inception Team for conflict checks and money laundering compliance, and managing incoming post by scanning to the case management system.
• Preparing expense claims, raising, and sending out invoices for the Litigation Team, and following up on payments.

Skills and qualifications

• Previous Legal PA experience in a similar role looking after Partners and a broader team,
• Specific litigation experience desirable, but not essential
• Willing to support across the broader Dispute Resolution and Litigation practice area, as necessary.

If you would like to learn more about this opportunity, contact Lucy Allan for a confidential discussion.

LR Legal is a specialist legal recruitment agency with a reputation based on trust and integrity. We will always ask your permission before sending your CV to any of our clients.

The PQE identified on this advertisement is a guide only and does not preclude applications from those with more or less PQE.

LR Legal Recruitment is operating as an Employment Agency in respect of this vacancy.

*We require a lawyer who has gained the necessary experience for the position advertised. The PQE identified on this advertisement is a guide only and does not preclude applications from those with more or less PQE.