Name: Solicitors
Rating: 4.5 (77 reviews)

RESPONSIBILITIES

Billing (primarily Legal Aid)
Preparation of documentation and correspondence including mail and enclosures.
General administration including filing, photocopying, message taking and diary arrangements.
Typing via digital dictation
Occasional receptionist duties
Cataloguing and organisation of documentation.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Business administration and secretarial qualification is desirable but not essential
Must have relevant experience of working in a busy legal practice, gained in a Family Law and Care department.
Must understand and have experience of the Legal Aid application and billing system; CCMS including fixed fee billing, court assisted bills and HCCPs and must be able to respond to and resolve billing enquiries from LAA on own initiative.
Must be able to liaise with professionals, experts, other agencies and the Court.
Good typing speed (at least 80/90 wpm) and excellent typing accuracy.
Good spelling and punctuation
An understanding of the concept of confidentially and how to deal with confidential information

PERSON SPECIFICATION:

Excellent organisational skills
Self-starting approach to tasks and projects and ability to work on own initiative
Well-developed interpersonal skills – an ability to interact with people all levels and able to inspire confidence in clients and colleagues
Good communication skills and excellent telephone manner
Ability to work under pressure and as part of a team
Good attention to detail
Ability to learn quickly and flexibility to take on new types of work
Ability to remain calm and professionally detached in all circumstances

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Microsoft Office including a proficiency in Word and Outlook
Internet
Ability to use a case management system and understand business accounting systems.

Interested in this role? Apply without delay by sending your CV with a covering letter to [email protected] on 0191 567 0465 for a confidential chat.

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

What our clients say

Excellent, everything from the start to the finish done very professionably.

Wills, Trust & Probate

Excellent Service, Great service and very sound advice, thank you :)

Employment Law

Terms and conditions, a necessity to protect your business and your customers. We needed to develop new T&C's to reflect our current operations. In this past this has been complex, expensive and time consuming. Including difficult too understand legal jargon and language that is often included in T&C's. As we operate with transparency is was very important that our T&C's are clear and easy for our customers to understand and agree to. Right from the beginning Phil removed the complexity and jargon, resulting in brand new T&Cs which are customer friendly. He made the whole process easy, efficient and painless! Thank you Phil!

Commercial Law

Perfect from beginning to the end of my house purchase could not fault the service I received

Residential Conveyancing

Richard Reed handled all aspects of the sale of my sisters house recently. They were always available to clear up outstanding details.
their advice was clear and concise. Their costs were entirely reasonable. Everyones demeanour was to be kind and helpful. I would be happy to recommend them and will use them again.

Residential Conveyancing

Kat could not have been more helpful, valuable, professional or friendly. I could not have asked for a better experience in going through my settlement agreement than the service I received from Kat and she was the reason we achieved an outcome far more beneficial to me than I expected. In our conversations Kat was very clear about the process, she did not rush me through any of my questions or decision-making and I genuinely felt like it was important to her that I got the best outcome possible. I would not hesitate at all to work with Kat again or to recommend her to anyone else who would need legal advice. Thank you, Kat!

Employment Law

Carnt express how wonderful Richard reed solicitors actually are been through rough time past year and they have been the best professional friendly and very supportive and understanding especially Amy and Alison with you through every step in which can be a very difficult time in someones life would highly recommend

Family Law

Kat Moody provided an excellent service. She was invested in my case and provided good advice. I would highly recommend Kat.

Employment Law

Big enough to know. Small enough to care.

Role & Person Specification: Legal Assistant – Family Law

What our clients say