Legal Support Assistant

Morrisons Solicitors LLP is a long established top 200 law firm with offices in Surrey and South West London.  We are ranked in the UK Chambers & Partners Directory. 

We have a long history and big ambitions. We combine the depth of knowledge, capabilities and resources of a large firm with the approachability of a local practice.  Morrisons is a Lexcel accredited Law Firm and has been awarded a Silver Accreditation for Investors in People.

The practice of law is, at heart, all about people: business people, employers and employees, investors, home owners, private individuals, families, vulnerable adults – people. So, it’s no surprise that we place a very high priority on attracting and recruiting, developing, rewarding and retaining the right people – for our clients and our business.Morrisons is a community of high-calibre professionals – lawyers and support specialists – who are dedicated to delivering expert, commercially focused advice that helps clients to achieve their goals. We choose to do this is in an approachable, down-to-earth, practical way, offering solutions rather than lectures.

As part of our ongoing commitment to training and development we offer a Newly Qualified Development Programme.  This applies to all newly qualified solicitors during their first three years of qualification and its purpose is to support and help you reach your full potential.

We encourage all our staff to reflect and commit to the firm’s core values; integrity, insight, and sense of community. Each member of our staff has an important role to play in achieving our goals as a firm, our offices have a community feel to them and we are committed to working together as a team to actively encourage other to excel.

We understand the importance of a healthy work life balance and are open to considering variable working arrangements to support our staff with their commitments outside of work – this includes applications from Job Share partners.

Our Dispute Resolution team comprises qualified arbitrators and mediators – all experienced and robust negotiators – and we work with our clients to design the most appropriate strategy for their circumstances. We can also draw on the experience and knowledge of specialist teams, including colleagues from our employment, property, clinical negligence and personal injury teams, to ensure that whatever course our clients take we have the best possible chance of success.

As an Administrator, your duties and responsibilities will be to provide support to the fee earners of the department. No legal experience is necessary, but you must have good IT skills (Outlook, Word, Excel and ideally Adobe Pro).

You must have an excellent telephone manner; and you must be very well organised, proactive and enthusiastic, with the capacity to work to deadlines. Office-based experience would be ideal, but is not essential.

Key Responsibilities

• File opening for new matters using our practice management system
• Creating editable and non-editable PDF bundles of documents
• Communicating with clients to obtain ID and schedule meetings etc
• Produce information by formatting, inputting, editing, retrieving and copying data in both Word and Excel, and uploading to shared platforms
• Organising meetings; scheduling couriers, preparing expenses, costs and billing reports and estimates.
• Maintaining diaries of fee earners by planning and scheduling conferences, recording key dates
• Preparing and paying invoices and tracking payments.
• Maintain client confidence by keeping client/lawyer communication free flowing.

The ideal candidate:

• Will have a minimum of GCSE English and Maths at A-C or equivalent
• Be extremely organised and have excellent attention to detail
• Enthusiastic and keen to offer support to the team and be relied on
• Excellent IT skills and the ability to pick up new systems quickly
• Your verbal and written communication will be clear, straightforward and accurate
• You will have the ability to use your own initiative and demonstrate excellent team working skills.
• You will be adaptable, logical and work well under pressure

We encourage all our staff to reflect and commit to the firm’s core values; integrity, insight, and sense of community. Each member of our staff has an important role to play in achieving our goals as a firm, our offices have a community feel to them and we are committed to working together as a team to actively encourage other to excel.

Permanent, Monday – Friday, 35 hours per week

Morrisons Solicitors LLP are committed to promoting equal opportunities for all candidates irrespective of your age, sex, race, colour, religion, religious belief, national original marital status, sexual orientation, physical disability or mental disability, including persons who have aids or have tested HIV-positive or any other legally protected classification, except as may be permitted by law. The firm is committed to provide an environment in which the rights and dignity of all its employees are respected, and which is free from discrimination, prejudice, intimidation and all forms of harassment including bullying.

If, as a result of a disability, you believe that there are aspects of the recruitment process or job that you would find more difficult, please contact a member of HR Team as soon as possible. We will then be able to discuss with you any reasonable adjustments that could be made to the recruitment process or the job itself.  Any equality data provided by you will be used to monitor our diversity policies and practices.