Background
The team provide administrative and secretarial support through a helpdesk to the departments within individual client services to include but not limited to clinical negligence and personal injury.
The role
Duties are varied and will include:
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Preparation of court or legal documentation e.g. court bundles
- Preparing standard correspondence and composing routine letters for lawyers
- Typing and updating complex documents and correspondence
- Audio typing
- Drafting bills and dealing with clients when bill queries come through
- Encrypting and secure electronic sending of documents
- Managing diaries for lawyers, organising meetings booking car parking spaces etc.
- Responding to telephone calls and taking messages
This is an opportunity to join an experienced and friendly legal support team. You will be provided with full training and continued support.
Following training, the role affords the opportunity to work three days in the office and two remotely. Hours of work are 9 – 5.30pm Monday to Friday inclusive.
Skills & Qualifications
As all work is undertaking electronically a high level of IT literacy is needed. Previous secretarial or administration experience is required. Legal or medical experience is desirable but not essential.
Life at Hugh James
We never shy away from a challenge
We are a leading, full-service UK law firm. Since our beginning, we have been led by the things that matter. We care about fighting for the right outcomes. Solving the seemingly unsolvable. Protecting businesses, individuals and livelihoods. Supporting our people, our communities. Safeguarding our planet. Looking for a way forward? At Hugh James, challenges of all sizes are readily accepted.
The Hugh James difference
Our law firm has always been guided by the idea that self-belief is just as important as skillset. Our pursuit of righting wrongs and protecting what’s important keeps us driving forwards. It’s in our roots! We won’t stop until we find the answers; the outcomes that are needed.
We are focused on the work we do, the business we run, and our culture. Our entrepreneurial spirit has taken us from humble beginnings to a strong presence across the UK with offices in Cardiff, London, Manchester, Southampton and Plymouth – servicing clients from businesses, individuals and banks to public sector organisations, property companies, education establishments and utilities providers. Our collegiate culture, our forward-looking ethos, our values serve to make us bigger, better, bolder than ever before.
A positive force in the community
Our work with charities on a local and national level plays a huge part in our day-to-day lives. We work with a large range of charities, some of which we support through fundraising, donations, volunteering and others we partner with where our areas of work cross paths. Staff, clients everyone comes together through a shared passion to do good in the community and support those in need.
Some of our benefits on offer include:
Minimum of 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Two Corporate Social Responsibility days
Birthday day off
Death in service equivalent to twice annual salary
Auto enrolment pension scheme
Hybrid working
Employee Assistance Programme
Discounts for local businesses
Professional fees paid (subject to requirement for your role)
Employee recruitment incentive scheme
Hugh James is an equal opportunities and disability confident committed employer.
Thank you for taking the time to consider this opportunity. If you have questions, please contact Stephanie Williams
We reserve the right to close our vacancies earlier than the given deadline if we receive sufficient applications for the role.
