Legal Assistant

☞ Burnetts

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Update day: 11-06-2024

Location: Carlisle North West

Category: Legal / Contracts

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Burnetts is one of the biggest and most progressive law firms in the North of England and we are looking to recruit a Legal Assistant to support our Family team based at our Carlisle office on a full-time basis.

Who are we looking for?

The successful candidate will join our busy family team and be able to demonstrate sound knowledge and experience of office administration, ideally in a legal environment. Whilst this role is not purely a fee-earning role, there may be aspects of fee-earning expectation within it.

Knowledge and experience of assisting with family law matters is desirable. Specific training will be provided as necessary on our systems, legal procedures and the relevant law.

The role will include:

  • Providing fee earner support
  • Seeing clients and progressing cases under supervision
  • Liaising with counsel and other legal representatives
  • Drafting petitions/court documents/agreements as required
  • General administrative tasks e.g. typing, copying, scanning, file opening and archiving
  • Working with a case management system

The successful candidate will have a proactive, ‘can-do’ attitude to enable them to work closely with a team of legal fee-earners on all aspects of this work.The ability to work as part of a team is therefore essential together with excellent communication, organisational and IT skills.

What do we offer?

This is an excellent opportunity for the right candidate with the potential of longer-term career advancement in a forward-thinking law firm with a well-established client base. We are proud to be certified as a ‘Great Place to Work’. To read more about how great it is to work for us, please visit https://www.greatplacetowork.co.uk/workplace/item/3520/Burnetts

Along with this we will provide you with a competitive salary, pension, 25 days holiday and Private Medical Health Insurance; in addition, we will even give you your birthday off every year too!

Our values of Committed, Accessible, Grounded and Expert, help to engender a culture of providing excellent client service within a caring and supportive internal environment. Please see our website for further information about who we are and what we value at: https://www.burnetts.co.uk/

If this role sounds like the next step in your career then please send a copy of your CV with a covering letter to yourfuture@burnetts.co.uk

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Deadline: 26-07-2024

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