Legal Administrator Exeter, England
Job description
We are seeking to recruit a motivated Legal Administrator to join the Legacies team. This is a leading, rapidly growing innovative team specialising in acting for charities. You can expect plenty of opportunity to develop your skill set and to be involved in some interesting and challenging work. If you are highly motivated, energetic, possessing high levels of personal organisation skills and are looking for an entry role into the legal industry then this is the role for you.
As a Legal Administrator you will be working closely with the lawyers in the team in providing administrative support to ensure the smooth and efficient running of the teams workload in order to meet all set requirements and timescales.
What you will do
- Amending and collating letters with enclosures in line with set deadlines, ensuring sign off as appropriate by the appropriate lawyer
- Collating and completing due diligence to comply with Anti Money Laundering Regulations
- File management to ensure compliance with Foot Anstey practices and procedures
- Managing routine client telephone enquiries, to ensure all required information and details are obtained to comply with file opening requirements
- Ad hoc administration duties such as filing, scanning and photocopying for the team
What we need
- Prior experience working within an administrative function
- Excellent communicator (written and verbally) and attention to detail
- Good administration skills
- Ability to manage multiple tasks at once
- Commitment to working within a quality standard environment
- Strong IT skills with the ability to become familiar with new systems quickly
- Ability to achieve tasks quickly and accurately
- Ability to collaborate and work effectively with other colleagues internally, both within the wider team and across all practice areas
Our offer to you
In return for your efforts, you can expect considerable scope for personal as well as professional development. Tailored to match the level you're working at, we encourage people to engage with our popular and well supported coaching and mentoring programmes, which connect you to people right across the firm and at every level. We create space for mental and physical wellbeing with our weekly Lifestyle Hour, along with private medical insurance for all lawyers, 28 days annual leave and a sabbatical you can take every 5 years. Employees can also buy holiday, managing your benefits flexibly using our sophisticated portal to configure your total reward offer according to what you value most. As part of this, you can make ongoing or one-off donations to our charitable foundation and access our CSR programme where you can engage with community-based initiatives (as a team, or individually) twice a year, to give something back where you feel it matters.
If you have any questions or would like to discuss this role, please contact our Recruitment Team via email in the first instance, and we will come back to you as soon as we can: [email protected]
Why Foot Anstey?
As one of the UK's fastest growing law firms, Foot Anstey believes in helping our clients and people achieve their ambitions, unlocking new and exciting opportunities. Our team of business and legal advisors are motivated by understanding clients' goals and collaborating with them and other advisers to deliver solutions. By becoming our clients' most trusted advisor, we are enabling them to achieve their ambitions. How we do it is just as important as what we do. Our values define the way we act with our clients and one another every day, and because of these we think our culture and environment sets us apart.
Over our history we've grown from a high-street firm to a significant regional and national player working with leading brands and individuals predominantly across six key sectors: Private Equity, Retail & Consumer, Energy & Infrastructure, Islamic Finance, Developers and Private Wealth. Our strategy of gaining market share through meeting clients' needs, investing in and developing high quality talent and using technology and innovation to enhance our services has led to significant growth. We now operate from eight locations: Truro, Plymouth, Exeter, Taunton, Bristol, Southampton and London, as well as a 'hub' base in Oxford.
Our people are central to our success, in every part of the business. We actively support our employees to achieve their aspirations through offering meaningful careers with balanced rewards, which have been carefully designed to focus on personal wellbeing. We offer continual opportunities for support and professional development through our Business Skills Academy and Digital Skills Academy, and believe in empowering each other to achieve and strive to create a progressive and inclusive working environment. Being forward-thinking, we are open to discussing flexible working patterns for all of our vacancies, with over 40% of our existing employees having a permanent flexible working pattern. In addition, our impressive suite of flexible benefits will enable you to prioritise what matters most to you.
Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is integral to delivering our strategy, and we were delighted to be awarded the National Equality Standard for a second time in 2021. We consider this to be right at the heart of our priorities, and goes way beyond our policies – it's something we consider across everything we do, from the make-up of our client teams, encouraging staff to reach their potential, through to our leadership. We aim to support our clients and our people to achieve their goals, regardless of background, gender, race, beliefs, sexuality or other non-work related factors. We champion aspiration and encourage it in everyone that works with us. As such we actively encourage applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any characteristics protected by law. If you apply for this role you may be encouraged to answer our diversity and social mobility monitoring questions, so please be reassured that any answers you provide will remain entirely anonymous and confidential and will in no way impact your application.
Foot Anstey. Powering Your Ambition.
