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Junior Legal Support Assistant

Commercial

Bristol, Exeter

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Are you looking for an opportunity to grow your admin career in an entry level/junior role, with a leading UK law firm?  We currently have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic Administrator to join us as a Junior Legal Support Assistant/Secretary in our Commercial team based in either Bristol or Exeter. This is a rapidly growing area of our firm and you can expect plenty of opportunity to learn and develop your 'admin' skill set and to be involved in some interesting and challenging work. If you are already working in a similar entry level admin role and have great organisational skills and a desire to learn and grow with us at Foot Anstey, we are keen to hear from you.

At Foot Anstey our people, like our values, are at the very heart of our business. With a huge technology agenda on the horizon for the Foot Anstey group you will be exposed to new and creative ways of working which will enhance not only your IT ability but allow for a more client focused approach.

What you'll do

If you don't have experience of the following, we can help you learn along the way.  Supporting our Legal Support Assistant on a day-to-day basis across all areas of Commercial law, you will be involved in a variety of interesting tasks including but not limited to the following:

  • General administration and secretarial support tasks
  • Travel and diary management and ensuring the fee earners (legal professionals) have everything required for their meetings
  • Responding to queries from clients and other stakeholders on behalf of your fee earners, ensuring excellent and clear communication at all times
  • Dealing with legal file opening and closing activities
  • Finance and Risk Management – assisting with managing monthly billing procedures, cash collection and credit control processes
  • File management tasks to ensure full compliance with practices including, Lexcel, Code of Conduct, and anti-Money Laundering
  • Producing and amending precedent letters and House-style documents
  • Working and collaborating with a friendly team, in a fast paced environment

What we're looking for

  • Experience of providing admin support 
  • A passion for learning, and the ability to take instruction/support in order to learn everything you need to know about the role of an LSA
  • Strong Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills
  • Excellent organisational, communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Superb attention to detail and accuracy (verbal, written and numerical)
  • The ability to deal with highly confidential information with tact and sensitivity
  • The desire to work in a fast paced, collaborative and friendly team in a legal environment

Successful applicants will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process which includes a financial integrity check and a DBS check. If you wish to discuss any issues or questions in connection with this, please do speak in confidence with a member of the Talent Acquisition Team. Contact us at [email protected] and we will come back to you as soon as we can.

Our offer to you

In return for your efforts, you can expect considerable scope for personal as well as professional development. We encourage people to engage with our popular and well supported coaching and mentoring programmes, which connect you to people right across the firm and at every level. We create space for mental and physical wellbeing with our weekly Lifestyle Hour, 28 days annual leave, and a sabbatical you can take every 5 years. You can also buy holiday and manage your benefits flexibly using our sophisticated portal to configure your total reward offer according to what you value most. As part of this, you can make ongoing or one-off donations to our charitable foundation and access our CSR programme where you can engage with community-based initiatives (as a team, or individually) twice a year, to give something back where you feel it matters.

Why Foot Anstey?

As one of the UK's fastest growing law firms, Foot Anstey believes in helping our clients and people achieve their ambitions, unlocking new and exciting opportunities. Our team of business and legal advisors are motivated by understanding clients' goals and collaborating with them and other advisers to deliver solutions.  By becoming our clients’ most trusted advisor, we are enabling them to achieve their ambitions. How we do it is just as important as what we do. Our values define the way we act with our clients and one another every day, and because of these we think our culture and environment sets us apart.

Over our history we've grown from a high-street firm to a significant regional and national player working with leading brands and individuals predominantly across six key sectors: Private Equity, Retail & Consumer, Energy & Infrastructure, Islamic Finance, Developers and Private Wealth. Our strategy of gaining market share through meeting clients' needs, investing in and developing high quality talent and using technology and innovation to enhance our services has led to significant growth. We now operate from seven locations: Truro, Plymouth, Exeter, Taunton, Bristol, Southampton, and London.

Our people are central to our success, in every part of the business. We actively support our employees to achieve their aspirations through offering meaningful careers with balanced rewards, which have been carefully designed to focus on personal wellbeing. We offer continual opportunities for support and professional development through our Talent Development programme and Digital Skills Academy, and believe in empowering each other to achieve and strive to create a progressive and inclusive working environment. Being forward-thinking, we are open to discussing flexible working patterns for all of our vacancies, with over 40% of our existing employees having a permanent flexible working pattern. In addition, our impressive suite of flexible benefits will enable you to prioritise what matters most to you. 

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is integral to delivering our strategy, and we were delighted to be awarded the National Equality Standard for a second time in 2021.  We consider this to be right at the heart of our priorities and goes way beyond our policies – it’s something we consider across everything we do, from the make-up of our client teams, encouraging staff to reach their potential, through to our leadership. We aim to support our clients and our people to achieve their goals, regardless of background, gender, race, beliefs, sexuality or other non-work related factors. We champion aspiration and encourage it in everyone that works with us.  As such we actively encourage applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any characteristics protected by law. If you apply for this role you may be encouraged to answer our diversity and social mobility monitoring questions, so please be reassured that any answers you provide will remain entirely anonymous and confidential and will in no way impact your application.

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