Admin Recruitment (Speculative Advert)

Kingsley Napley is an internationally recognised law firm based in Central London. We support individuals and businesses in resolving conflict, safeguarding their futures and maximising opportunities. Our wide range of expertise means that we can provide support for our clients in all areas of their business and private life. Many of our lawyers are leaders in their field and our practice areas are highly ranked by the legal directories.

Secretarial Services Department

To provide flexible administrative support to teams, working closely with personal assistants (PAs), document production specialists (DPSs), fee earners, Office Services and other support teams as appropriate. The AA team provides cross-team, flexible support and cover for administration workloads as required.

Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for the day to day administrative work on the floor you are stationed on (and other floors as required) which includes supporting the fee earners and PAs by carrying out all administrative tasks and maintaining the office equipment and supplies. You will also assist with file management.

Day to day duties:

• Photocopying, printing and scanning

• Preparing bundles/exhibits/pleadings and/or correcting an existing bundle, assisting with indexing and labeling as required

• Collating enclosures for correspondence/instructions to counsel

• Hard-copy filing, ensuring physical files are maintained and up to date

• Processing searches for fee earners (e.g. Companies House, Land Registry and external providers) as required

• Processing expenses (including marketing, office and client expenses)

• Scanning and saving of final bills to the relevant systems

• Administrative activities for marketing events and seminars as requested by the PA (e.g. collation and/or copying hand-outs)

• Packaging and preparing post, courier and DX items

• Coordinating and assisting with internal and external post, couriers, special deliveries and internal documents (e.g. cheques) liaising with the relevant departments as required

• Maintaining the MFD devices to ensure they are appropriately stocked with supplies and troubleshoot any issues to IT or Office Services to ensure issues are resolved

• Emptying shredding bins

• Assisting with the production of reports as required

• Escalating any issues or concerns to AA Team Leader or the Secretarial Services Manager (SSM) so that a timely resolution can be found

File Management duties:

• Opening matters on MatterSphere and creating physical matter files

• Processing conflict searches on the relevant systems as directed, obtaining World Check search from KIS and providing results of all checks/searches to the fee earner for sign-off

• Requesting Matter Planner if required

• Importing, naming and saving documents to MatterSphere or elsewhere

• Maintaining and updating the sensitive information log/key safe

• Managing Intralinks document uploads and downloads

• Managing video/audio evidence (request, upload, download, encrypt, record, track)

• Processing file closures and archiving assisting, ensuring files are labelled and archived correctly Liaising with Archives for retrieval and return of hard copy files.