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Legal Assistant/Paralegal

🏢 Insight Law 📍 Cardiff, Wales 💼 Full Time
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£21,000 - £21,000
£1,750 - £1,750 / mo
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Location Base
Cardiff, Wales
Tier-1 UK Economic Zone
Est. Take-Home Pay
68% - 74% (After PAYE & NI)
Single tax filer baseline
Transatlantic Parity
1.0 GBP ≈ $1.28 USD Living Standard
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Position Overview & Specifications

JOB DESCRIPTION

Title:

Legal Assistant/paralegal

Salary & benefits:

Salary at competitive rates and dependent on experience

22 working days’ annual leave

Employer’s Pension Scheme

Firm wide bonus scheme

“Work from home” financial contribution scheme

Flexible working

Location:

Bristol/Cardiff office

Reports to:

Head of Department / Partners

Purpose:

To support the Head of Department/Directors in the provision of legal services by providing legal and administrative assistance to fee earners and clients.

Key Responsibilities

  • To assist fee earners in the management of their caseload by actioning legal procedures as directed by the fee earner.
  • To assist fee earners in the management and progression of their caseload by dealing with file related queries either face to face or by telephone.
  • To assist fee earners in the processing of matters in a timely and cost effective manner.
  • To support fee earners in the maintenance of files by effective file management.
  • To ensure that clients are dealt with efficiently and politely and that appropriate legal matters are raised with the fee earner.
  • To attend to clients, taking instructions, and conducting letter and telephone enquiries as necessary.
  • Assist in the opening of client files and updating their records onto the case management system.
  • Provide general administrative support in the following areas: photocopying, faxing, scanning, binding documents and deeds, filing and archiving.
  • Provide support with Land Registry searches and other searches as required.
  • To ensure that billing takes place promptly and that outstanding balances are collected as soon as feasible.
  • To use the correct Practice procedures and systems in order to manage cases effectively and in accordance with the firm's standards and legal requirements.
  • To improve and enhance the firm's client base by effective liaison with existing clients.
  • To maximize the firm's potential to cross - sell services by identifying appropriate opportunities.
  • To manage own work allocation, productivity and quality of work under supervision.

Personal Qualities

Managing Yourself

  • Self-motivated and willing to take responsibility for organising your own activities to ensure that all targets and quality standards are met.
  • Copes effectively in demanding circumstances
  • Good time management, adopting a flexible approach to work.
  • Demonstrates persistence and commitment to completing tasks and objectives.
  • Delivers work output to the required standard.
  • Pays attention to detail and quality of work.
  • Demonstrates a commitment to improving working practices and supports company plans and policies.

Working with People

  • Ability to build and maintain working relationships with others and act as a role model for the values of the Firm.
  • Operates effectively as part of a team encouraging others to contribute ideas and seek improvements.
  • Willing to offer help to all colleagues to ensure company success.

Problem Solving

  • Demonstrates sound judgement and good decision making when dealing with problems.
  • Able to identify a problem arising and can develop a solution or take the correct course of action.
  • Knows when to seek guidance or further input from others before taking action.
  • Checks that information is accurate and complete.
  • Looks for new solutions to problems as well as tried and tested methods.

Communication Skills

  • Able to express oneself both orally and in writing in a clear and constructive way.
  • Willing to ask questions, listen to others views and accept advice.
  • Willing to contribute ideas and seek improvements.
  • Good client / introducer handling skills both by telephone and face to face.

Experience Required

Essential

  • Practical experience of working in a legal office environment.
  • Practical experience of working in an office administration capacity.
  • Practical experience of handling client enquiries both face to face and by telephone.
  • Computer literate with good keyboard skills and used to word processing packages (preferably Microsoft Word).
  • Practical experience of property transactional work

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £21,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • Free parking
  • Health & wellbeing programme
  • On-site parking
  • Work from home

Schedule:

  • Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

  • Bonus scheme

Ability to commute/relocate:

  • Cardiff, CF23 8RB: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

  • conveyancing/buy to let: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Cardiff, CF23 8RB

Application deadline: 28/06/2023
Reference ID: Legal Assistant/Paralegal
Expected start date: 26/06/2023

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Candidate Selection & Onboarding Process

1

Application & Resume Screening

Submit your tailored CV/Resume directly to the talent acquisition portal.

2

Technical & Competency Interviews

Virtual interviews with the hiring manager and multidisciplinary team.

3

Formal Offer & Benefits Negotiation

Written agreement outlining compensation, equity, retirement vesting, and relocation allowances.

4

Onboarding & Corporate Integration

Equipment provisioning, team orientation, and commencement of duties.

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