Legal PA

Shoosmiths - UK Law Firm of the Year Winner at the Legal Week British Legal Awards 2015.

A leading UK law firm with a network of offices from the South Coast to Scotland, working together as one national team. An innovative practice and the first top 100 law firm to achieve “Gold Standard” Investors in People, our values and culture are not just words on our website but are the heartbeat of the firm. The lack of barriers between departments, a real lack of hierarchy, zero tolerance for arrogance and pomposity makes Shoosmiths a fantastic place to work.

Our pensions team, which is ranked in the top tier for pensions in the South East (Legal 500, 2011/2012) offers a specialist practice combining high quality advice and support with competitive fees. We encounter many pension schemes with similar problems and concerns, but recognise that each scheme is unique. We pride ourselves on providing tailored and practical advice.
Our advice combines sound legal analysis with an understanding of the factual background. Whether advising the trustees or the scheme sponsor, we strive to provide workable solutions for our clients.
Our clients cite cost effectiveness, efficiency, and response times as reasons for choosing us over many London firms, while our partners all have experience in City pensions practices.
We advise in relation to more than 200 occupational pension schemes, ranging from £1m to more than £1billion in size.

You will be required to work within a busy team providing both PA and Secretarial support to ensure a comprehensive and quality service for our clients.  You will work alongside our existing PA within the department.

The role involves a large amount of digital dictation, drafting documents and typing correspondence to clients.  You will deal with the administrative matters such as file management ensuring the files are accurate and all filing is up to date.  You will deal with all file inceptions, conflict checks and money laundering procedures.  Within this role, you will also assist with the billing and credit control and assist with the organisation of our business development events. Other tasks will include photocopying, scanning and engrossing documents, following our accounts procedures, internal collation of post, archiving and organising of your supervisor’s dairy, arranging meetings and travel requirements.

The position will suit an individual who may have had previous legal secretarial experience.  You will be both effective and confident when communicating with team members and clients whilst maintaining a polite, courteous and friendly manner.  You will have high standards of personal organisation and time management with the ability to manage your own workload and a friendly and approachable determination to succeed with the ability to work with little supervision.  The individual must have a good attention for detail with dealing with e.g. file management and document production and have the ability to use their own initiative.   You must have excellent keyboard skills with a minimum speed of 60 wpm.

If you are committed, confident and enjoy working as part of a team then contact us now.

Shoosmiths is a committed Equal Opportunities employer promoting equality of opportunity. This means that everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, whatever their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.