Legal Assistant

6 months ago

Lewes, United Kingdom Adams and Remers Full time

**About Adams & Remers**

We are a long established law firm with a professional, modern, client-centred approach. Delivering exceptional service to our clients is at the heart of everything we do.

We have an excellent reputation and have built strong, responsive and complementary practice areas that help private individuals, businesses and institutions in the UK and internationally. We have developed expertise in established and emerging sectors to ensure we offer the best specialist advice available.

We have offices in Lewes and London, with this role being based in our Lewes office. Across our practice areas of Commercial and Residential Property, Private Client, Litigation and Corporate and Commercial, we have 18 partners and a full team of around 100.

Our Private Client team, based in Lewes, advises UK and international private individuals including multi-generational families, high net worth individuals and entrepreneurs and business professionals. We offer a full range of services including wills, inheritance, powers of attorney, trusts and probate, estate planning and tax.

We have top rankings for our Private Client team in Chambers High Net Worth Guide and Legal 500 directories. Our lawyers also have personal top rankings across various legal directories. The team receives excellent feedback and reviews from clients, industry partners and referrers:

- “Provides a Rolls-Royce service.”_
- “Excellent knowledge, extremely efficient and an absolute delight to deal with.”_

We strongly believe in taking the time to get to know our clients - really listening and understanding what matters to them. Our team has specialist practitioners to ensure we can provide the best advice available. This commitment to personal service and offering the highest standards of advice is what encourages our clients to return to us time and again as their circumstances change. Creating and nurturing strong professional partnerships and referrer relationships are also key to our new business development.

**The Role**:
We are looking for a Legal Assistant to join this team to carry out:

- File opening and closing;
- Drafting routine correspondence including engagement letters
- Amending documents from manuscript and copy typing of documents
- Diary management
- Liaising with clients and other third parties
- Preparing bills, management of payments, receipts and transfers, dealing with arising queries and issues
- Create and maintain database Will, EPA and LPA records
- Handling of original Wills/Powers of Attorney
- Maintain Trust permanent folder

**Skills needed**:

- Previous experience of working as a Legal Secretary or Legal Assistant
- fast, accurate typing skills and good attention to detail
- the ability to follow procedural and legal protocol
- a methodical approach and good time management
- excellent IT skills
- good communication skills and the ability to work as part of a team
- positivity and adaptability
- a high standard of written and spoken English

**Working for Adams & Remers**

We fill our teams with people who are professional, motivated and reliable and share our values and our determination to deliver the best possible experience for our clients.

To help you develop yourself and your role, we offer a friendly working environment with opportunities for training and development to help you strengthen your skills and expertise.

We have a strong focus on wellbeing and provide you with excellent support and resources. Our friendly, welcoming team regularly organise social events to keep us connected.

The salary for the position is £20,000 to £25,000 depending on experience. We offer a very competitive benefits package including discount vouchers, cashplan offering money towards medical and health treatments, virtual GP service and fitness and nutrition health checks.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £20,000.00-£25,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Free flu jabs
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- Paid volunteer time
- Transport links

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

**Experience**:

- Legal Secretary or Legal Assistant: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person

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