Personal Injury Assistant

Shakespeare Martineau is a leading law firm that combines creativity, commerciality and clarity. We work with blue-chip companies, leading organisations, high street brands and individuals across the country.

Our multi-disciplinary team delivers a broad range of specialist legal services, and particularly stands out for its expertise across sectors including, but not limited to: energy, education, banking and financial services, investment funds, healthcare and advanced manufacturing. 

We’re proud of our people’s varied backgrounds and expertise. Our different qualities stand out and make us interesting to our clients.

We firmly believe in working hard and being ambitious. We look to recruit and develop talented people to achieve their potential - and who will contribute to achieving ours too.

Here you can fulfil your ambitions, whatever they are and however rapidly you want to achieve them. Together, and individually, we create exceptional results.

Our Litigation & Dispute Resolution group has a long-standing experience of working with some of the most successful and influential businesses in the UK and also internationally. Our specialist teams combine expertise with a sound understanding of the commercial landscape to provide exceptional solutions for every aspect of our clients’ corporate requirements.

Our Personal Injury team, Lime, specialise in high value claimant personal injury cases in areas including spinal and injuries, amputations, complex back/joint injuries and asbestosis cases. Our expertise includes claims for catastrophic or serious injuries, cycle and motorcycle accidents, defective products, fatal accidents, industrial diseases, road traffic accidents, slips and trips and workplace accidents and industrial injuries. We have settled a number of cases with compensation in excess of £1m and have recovered damages for clients running into many £100,000s.

The role:

You will work as part of a team to provide administrative support to help our legal teams deliver great service to our clients.

Your key duties will be:

• opening and closing of electronic files
• the use of a case management system to process and progress cases
• taking telephone calls and messages, handling queries and enquiries
• photocopying, scanning, faxing, printing, filing and collating documentation
• archiving, storage and retrieval of documentation (electronic and paper versions)
• typing of documents and correspondence 
• processing incoming and outgoing post and arranging couriers
• managing diaries for the team, booking appointments and making travel arrangements
• assisting with financial administration, liaison with our finance team, processing cheque requests and expenses, preparation and despatch of invoices and collecting payment
• maintaining data on Excel spreadsheets

Skills and experience you will have:

• a minimum grade C pass at GCSE (or equivalent) in English Language and Mathematics
• confidence with IT systems to include Microsoft Word and Excel
• some previous office administrative experience

Key competencies you will need:

• the ability to work well in a team and develop good working relationships with colleagues and others
• good communication skills with the confidence to liaise openly and clearly with colleagues and clients
• the ability to produce a high standard of work, sometimes under pressure, whilst maintaining accuracy and good attention to detail
• to be able to demonstrate flexibility, initiative and confidence in your own ability

About you – you will be:

• highly enthusiastic, willing to the extra mile and be happy to go beyond the job description
• respectful towards others and have a positive, willing and ‘can do’ attitude
• keen to learn, interested in driving your own career progression and be proactive in taking ownership of this

Due to the nature of the work undertaken, confirmation of employment will be subject to a variety of checks which will be carried out once an offer of employment is accepted. Details of the checks can be found here.

Shakespeare Martineau is a committed equal opportunities employer. We seek to attract, develop and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. We value and respect individuality and encourage a culture within our business where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths and experiences. Everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.