Family Legal PA - City of London

AJ Chambers are working with a top award winning Family Law firm situated in Central London. We are assisting them with the recruitment of a full time experienced Legal PA to work alongside one of the Senior Partners, and also assist the paralegals, solicitors and administration staff.

Some of the main responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• Providing comprehensive and efficient support to a busy partner;
• Organising,arranginganddiarisingappointments;
• Managing fee earner’s diary in relation to deadlines and daily reminders;
• OpeningfilesandcarryingoutAMLchecksincludingconflictchecks;
• Archiving files in accordance with SRA rules in case management system;
• Chase up applications; applying for payments on account and changes to certificate scope or limitations;
• Arranging appointments and meetings with clients, counsel, professionals etc;
• Obtaining information about availability, fees etc from counsel’s clerks;
• Booking counsel, solicitor advocates and/or clerks and occasional outdoor clerking;
• Keeping case management systems up to date;
• Carrying out specific pieces of work on solicitors’ files under supervision;
• Assisting solicitors in the preparation of cases including taking instructions and drafting documents and managing such cases under supervision;
• Preparing monthly bills, including speaking to clients about making payments on account;
• Obtaining disbursement invoices and filing on case management system;
• Preparing,paginatingandfinalisingcourtbundles;
• Followingcourtcasesandlatestcourtdecisions;
• Updating case tracker;
• Maintaining and updatingdatabase on case management system;
• Covering team members includingreception from time to time.

This is a great opportunity to join an established leading firm supporting at Senior level.

The Successful candidate will demonstrate working to tight deadlines, have excellent organisational skills, typing speed of 60wpm and previous experience within family law and supporting at Partner level.

The role will offer a competitive salary and benefits package in prestigious offices.

For further information please contact Ella Britton at AJ Chambers