Legal Admin Assistant

2 months ago


Dorchester, United Kingdom Acorn Recruitment Limited Full time

This is a great opportunity to acquire excellent experience in Tax and Trusts Law. The role will involve supporting the Dorchester based Trust and Tax team, predominantly with processing of information onto the online Trust Registration service, along with other associated administration and general admin to assist the team. This is a full time office based role.

Essential Skills required for the role are:

- Circa 6 months admin experience gained within a professional environment or a recent Graduate with a Law or Business (or related) Degree
- Strong administration/ data processing skills
- Demonstrates a desire to forge a career within the legal sector
- Excellent client service skills
- Highly numerate
- Must have a high level of initiative
- Good keyboard, MS Office
- Excellent written and spoken English with good numeracy and literacy
- Ability to work as part of a team and also on own initiative
- Excellent organisational skills
- Attention to detail, accuracy, resilience and tenacity to complete tasks to a high standard in a very busy team
- Professionally presented both visually and verbally
- Quick to adapt to changing priorities
- Hard working with a 'can do' attitude
- Good reliability and timekeeping
- Be confidential and diplomatic at all times.

Pay: £18,528 - £21,000 per annum dependent upon skills/experience/ qualification

Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm with a 1-hour lunch break (35 hours per week)

Holidays: 25 days plus bank holidays and ½ day for birthday

Benefits: Subject to eligibility - contributory pension scheme, Life Assurance, Employee Health Cash plan, Discretionary bonuses.

Acorn by Synergie acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment.


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