Legal Assistant

4 weeks ago


Taunton, United Kingdom Fox Morris Group Full time

**Legal Assistant - Childrens Social Care**
**Somerset council**
**County Hall**

**Your daily duties will include but not limited to**:

- Obtain instructions from client departments, complete standard documents and obtain necessary evidence from a number of sources to initiate Court proceedings or to enable the fee earner to properly advise the client department.
- Draft letters, etc. when requesting additional/evidential information, or arranging court or meeting attendance.
- Check fee earners’ post and deal where possible with queries etc. bringing to the fee earners attention if any immediate action is required.
- Personal diary management for key deadlines, required to obtain information from court attendance notes, etc.

**Detailed knowledge and/or research capabilities are required for a highly specialised area of law, encompassing a broad range of potential issues, including but not limited to**:

- Data Protection Subject Access Requests and Freedom of Information requests
- Children Act Orders
- Statutory Interpretation
- Judicial Review Claims

Pay: From £15.88 per hour

Expected hours: No more than 37 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company pension

**Experience**:

- legal assistant: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person


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