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Legal PA

Birchrose Associates
Posted 10 hours ago, valid for 21 days
Location

Guildford, Surrey GU48EY, England

Salary

£35,000 - £42,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • Our client, a Top 40 law firm, is seeking a Legal PA for their Guildford office to provide high-level support to Partners and Fee Earners.
  • The role requires a proactive and efficient candidate with prior Legal Secretary/PA experience within a law firm, ideally supporting Private or Litigation teams.
  • Key responsibilities include managing client matters, coordinating meetings, and assisting with billing and credit control processes.
  • This full-time position is a 12-month fixed-term contract, with working hours from Monday to Friday, 9:30am to 5:30pm, and offers a comprehensive benefits package including hybrid working.
  • Salary details are not specified, but candidates must have the right to work in the UK to be considered for this opportunity.

The FirmOur client, a Top 40 law firm are seeking a Legal PA who will be responsible for delivering the highest level of service to Partners and Fee Earners in their Guildford office.

The OpportunityThe successful candidate will be pro-active and efficient Legal PA who will support Partners and Fee Earners within their highly successful Private Client and Litigation teams. Duties to include:

  • Setting up processes for client matters
  • Supporting Partners, Fee Earners and the Business Development and Marketing teams with preparation of pitches, presentations and events and with other projects and tasks
  • Ensuring that all client related correspondence is received by the appropriate Partner or Fee Earner
  • Arranging client meetings and ensuring efficient responses to written and verbal client queries
  • Ensuring clients terms of business are in place as soon as file opened
  • Taking internal and external telephone queries
  • Diary management and coordination
  • Coordinating meetings including confirmation of attendees, arranging relevant technology, refreshments and catering
  • Arranging for files to be opened, closed and maintained
  • Ensuring time recording is up to date and captured in a timely manner
  • Processing invoices and expenses on the online system
  • Assisting the billing and credit control processes

This Legal PA opportunity is a full time, 12 Month fixed term contract role, working Monday to Friday 9:30am - 5:30pm

Requirements

  • Legal Secretary/PA experience within a law firm
  • Previous experience supporting Private or Litigation teams (desirable)

Vacancy highlights

  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Hybrid working
  • A friendly team environment

To be considered for this opportunity please contact Birchrose Associates for a confidential discussion.

Birchrose Associates, trading name of Huntress Search Ltd, acts as a Recruitment Agency in relation to all Permanent roles and as a Recruitment Business in relation to all Temporary roles.

We practice a diverse and inclusive recruitment process that ensures equal opportunity for all we work with, irrespective of race, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age or gender. As an organisation, we encourage applications from all backgrounds and will ensure measures are met when required, to allow a fair process throughout.

PLEASE NOTE: We can only consider applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.