Legal Administration Assistant

6 months ago

Liverpool, United Kingdom Hill Dickinson LLP Full time

Hill Dickinson LLP is a leading and award-winning international commercial law firm with offices in Liverpool, Manchester, London, Leeds, Newcastle, Piraeus, Singapore, Monaco and Hong Kong. With more than 950 people including 200 partners and legal directors, the firm delivers advice and strategic guidance spanning the full legal spectrum, from non-contentious advisory and transactional work, to all forms of commercial litigation.

Hill Dickinson acts as a trusted adviser to a wide portfolio of clients across a wide range of specialist sectors: from transport and logistics and international trade, through to retail, insurance, marine, health, education, manufacturing, public sector and banking and financial services.

**Job role**:Legal Administration Assistant (Full-time secondment)

**Hours**: Monday to Friday, 09:00 - 17:00 (35 hours per week)

As the winner of two Working Families’ awards for ‘Best UK employer for Flexible Recruitment 2022’ and ‘Best UK employer for Flexible Working Award 2020’, we are happy to consider flexible working opportunities to help you balance your work and home life.

**Team**:Health Litigation

**Location**:Liverpool / Warrington

**Benefits**: At Hill Dickinson we understand that incentives go far beyond a good salary, so we have created a comprehensive benefits package tailored around our people.

Here are some examples of what we offer:

- 25 days’ annual leave
- Birthday privilege day and Christmas shutdown
- Holiday buy, sell and carryover scheme
- 2 charity volunteering or pro bono days
- Flexible, agile and home working
- BUPA
- Permanent health insurance
- Flexible pension scheme
- Medicash
- EAP with access to counselling
- Enhanced family leave policies
- Access to 10 days fully subsidised emergency or back-up care per year
- Life assurance
- Annual travel season ticket loan
- Dress for your day policy
- Bespoke training and development opportunities
- Financial contribution towards home working equipment

**Role overview**
- Introduction to the role:_

This role is an excellent way to gain exposure to how legal cases are handled and has previously proven a great stepping stone for progression for many of our now, qualified solicitors.

Reporting to the designated team leader, the Legal Administration Assistant will provide administrative support to the solicitors within the team, assisting in the key client, file management and compliance processes.

This role will involve a full-time secondment at an NHS Trust in Warrington.

As a fundamental aspect of the role the Legal Administration Assistant will be required to adhere at all times to the data protection requirements established by the Health Business Group.
- Introduction to the team:_

The Health Litigation team specialises in defendant clinical negligence claims. Our main client is the NHS and but we have other defendant clinical negligence clients, including the Medical Protection Society.

Our Health team can genuinely say it is award winning, having received major recognition over the last few years, most recently being named as Legal Services Provider of the Year by the Health Service Journal.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Providing support to the Head of the Team with the co-ordination of data information for clients
- File Management - creating and archiving files and ensuring compliance procedures are adhered to
- Records - archiving and recovery of records as requested by secretarial or fee earning staff
- Preparing case bundles and documenting against agreed protocols
- Creating chronologies of medical records
- Faxing, scanning, photocopying
- Filing
- Support and advice to all users of the service
- Hand deliveries, when required
- Answering the telephone
- Some legal work on files with view to progressing to a paralegal role

**What are we looking for**:

- Organises own work effectively
- Seeks and accepts feedback and guidance
- Works flexibly to meet goals
- Competently follows agreed processes/methods
- Good team working skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Demonstrates understanding of client needs/expectations

**Equality, Diversity and Inclusion**

Hill Dickinson is committed to providing fairness and equal opportunity for all regardless of age, gender, gender identity, ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital or transgender status, nationality, religion or belief.

We understand that our power as a firm comes from empowering our people and that it is only by encouraging and enabling individuals to be themselves at work that we can truly benefit from their rich and varied strengths.

**Disability Support**

**Values**

Trust - Respect - Innovation - Collaboration

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