Legal Administrator

Positive Employment is currently recruiting for a Legal Administrator for our client a local government organisation in Gloucester.

The successful candidate will support a team of Lawyers and Paralegals covering public law child care proceedings within the Children and Families Legal Team.

This is initially a 6 month contract with the possibility to extend after that date. This role is hybrid working.

Duties and Responsibilities but not limited to:

• Take a proactive approach to supporting the Lawyers, Senior Lawyers, Principal Lawyers and Legal Services Business Partner in managing their cases.
• Take a flexible approach to working across Legal Services in providing support.
• Support the improvement of the administrative processes for the service through the use of electronic systems (amongst other things) and Legal Services’ Case Management System.
• Under the direction of the lawyers, the preparation of standard legal documents and correspondence forming part of the work of Legal Services.
• Provide an efficient and effective support service to the lawyers to facilitate legal meetings, court hearings, inquiries and committee meetings.
• Preparing and maintaining statistics relevant to each area as required by the Principal Lawyer and Legal Services Business Partner.
• Dealing with general enquiries relevant to the work of Legal Services.
• Assist the Team with time sensitive court matters (e.g. bundling).
• Assist with general correspondence (i.e. sending out letters via DocMail).
• Assist with invoicing process as well as opening files on our case management system.
• Arrange meetings, make telephone calls to help with ICT queries etc.
• Be a point of contact with our Service Area clients.
• Monitor our general inbox and allocate matters or queries to the relevant lawyers.

Personal Requirements:

• Previous experience of the provision of administrative support.
• Experience of working in a legal environment (Desirable).
• Experience of working in local government (Desirable).
• Computer literacy, including Microsoft Word and Outlook.
• Good IT skills including the ability to use a case management system together with the ability to introduce changes to improve service delivery through the use of the system.
• NVQ Level 2 in Business and Administration (Desirable).

Working Hours: 37hrs / 9:00am - 17:00pm / Monday to Friday

Pay: £17.74 p/h

Please note this role is within the scope of IR35.