legal assistant Southport, England
Job description
Napthens is a large regional and dynamic legal practice, providing a wide range of services to meet the needs of businesses and individuals.
As a firm with a collection of partners, we are ambitious to grow the business and maintain and enhance our reputation for outstanding relationships. We do this through our firms’ values which are instilled within the life blood of our organization.
- We Understand
- We Collaborate
- We Excel
These values ensure we fulfil our commitment to each other, our clients and ultimately our combined success.
Napthens Southport office are hiring a Legal Assistant to join our Private Client, probate team.
Working closely with the Head of Probate and lawyers handling the administration of estates you will be required to assist in the day-to-day progression of files, office administration and management of lawyer’s diaries’, calls and internal administration.
Day to day you will be involved in: -
- Diary management.
- Preparation of documentation.
- Record keeping.
- Arranging client meetings and internal management meetings;
- Arranging practical aspects relating to the administration of estates and management of client property
- Processing invoices and assisting with general file management;
- Attending meetings to witness documents being signed (including home visits, where required);
- Ensuring fully executed documents are recorded and updated to all relevant databases;
Skills/Experience/Qualifications required to perform the role:
- Committed team player
- Detail-orientated approach to your work and have the ability to work under pressure
- Initiative
- Excellent telephone manner
- Effective time management
- Experience gained within a private client department as a legal assistant or legal secretary.
- Proven experience of working with a case management system, e.g. Proclaim.
- Working knowledge of probate, wills, LPAs, trusts and estates.
NB* Agencies. Please do not send speculative CVs unless you have been instructed to work with us. Thank you.
