Legal Admin Assistant (no experience) London, England
Job description
Job description
Company: LawBite
This is an exciting opportunity within the UK’s most innovative and disruptive online legal platform, LawBite. LawBite is a law tech business revolutionising the legal industry and helping thousands of entrepreneurs and small business owners to start, grow and succeed through our online platform and expert legal advice. SMEs lose over £13 billion each year in the UK by failing to access clear and affordable legal advice – we aim to radically change this equation. We use the latest on-line tools and advanced data science to streamline the lawyer-client experience – delivering expert legal advice that is faster and easier to access, clearer to understand and commonly 50% the cost of comparable lawyers.
As a fully SRA regulated law firm (Lawbriefs Ltd), we are going through a period of fast dynamic growth and as we increasingly partner with large brands, we are experiencing even greater demand for LawBite services. We are looking for motivated key players to join the paralegal team to help support our expert lawyers and drive our client experience to the next level.
Job Role: Legal Administrative Assistant
We are seeking a proactive and efficient Legal Intern, who is a fast learner and has an interest in Law as well as some administrative experience. This is a great opportunity for someone with little to no legal experience who wants to get their foot through the door of the legal industry. There is opportunity for progression into a permanent position within the Paralegal team. The tasks would include:
- Case handling and file management on legal matters relating to Corporate, Commercial, Disputes/Litigation, Property, IP, Software, Employment, Media and GDPR Law
- Providing legal support for lawyers, specifically within Commercial Litigation and Commercial Property.
- Proactively managing and monitoring Gmail inbox and Slack messages, including quick and efficient responses to lawyers and clients
- Meeting all lawyer deadlines
- Responsible for all legal correspondence coming into and out of the office
- Sending emails and letters on behalf of lawyers – copying letters on to letterhead template, editing formatting and posting out
- Creating legal bundles for court and following lawyer’s instructions on bundles, e.g. placing documents in a certain order, removing an unsigned document from the bundle and replacing with the signed version of the document etc
- Assisting with compliance and due diligence on paid files
- Calling the court and third parties for updates
- Managing all inactivity case alerts on paid matters and chasing lawyers and clients accordingly
- Adhoc admin duties e.g., printing, posting, scanning, photocopying, filing
- Managing the legal filing system in the office
- Managing client disbursements e.g., counsel fees, court fees etc and sending out payment request forms accordingly
Essential Skills:
- Organisation and time management skills
- Speed and efficiency with the ability to multi-task and prioritise multiple projects with simultaneous deadlines whilst working in a fast-paced, pressured environment
- Proactive attitude with ability to use initiative
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to pick up new tasks and skills quickly
What you will receive:
- We will provide you with full, in-depth and comprehensive training on areas such as compliance, legal admin, basic paralegal duties, the legal portal, creating bundles, dealing with disbursements, liaising with courts/other side solicitors and anything else you are tasked with
- Hybrid and flexible working options, including working from home
- Opportunity of progression into the paralegal team or other areas of the business
- The chance to work in an innovative professional services environment
Location: This is a hybrid position with around 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home, but this could vary.
Company Website: https://www.lawbite.co.uk/
Job Type: Temp to perm
Salary: £9.50 per hour
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Discounted or free food
- Flexitime
- Referral programme
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- London: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- Are you able to start work on Monday 6th February?
- Are you flexible to be able to travel to our West London office at short notice as and when required on working days?
Work Location: Hybrid remote in London
