Admin Assistant

At BCLP, we've built our firm on the foundations of thinking differently. Curious, inquisitive and unbound by tradition, we're building change within our sector and beyond.

It starts with our people, which is why we need a Legal Admin Assistant to join our team. You will provide Legal PAs and Fee Earners with effective, proactive, professional and high quality administrative support that enables Fee Earners to focus on providing legal services to clients, and Legal PAs to provide personal/client management to Fee Earners. A Legal Admin Assistant will be an integral part of a busy team and will need to interact daily with Legal PAs and Fee Earners, and have the ability to prioritize workloads and liaise with other support functions to ensure timely delivery.

BCLP is an award-winning international law firm that provides legal services to well-known brands, including National Grid, The Financial Times, Tesco and Thames Water to name just a few.

Any successful law firm needs excellent support and we are currently looking to expand this pool of resource through hiring a Legal Admin Assistant.

Responsibilities will include the following tasks, delegated by Legal PAs or directly from Fee Earners:

• Production of engrossed documents, particularly those with multiple appendices.
• Printing of emails and attachments.
• Small volume photocopying and scanning, and delivery/collection of large volume document production, courier and repro jobs.
• Processing/submitting travel invoices, expense claims, and maintenance and filing of copies.
• Administration in association with payment for Fee Earners' individual memberships of institutes and associations.
• Preparation of admin for money payments e.g. Chaps payments.
• Simple file opening including conflict searches and money laundering requirements, liaising with the Office of General Counsel.
• Organising and maintaining systems to ensure effective document management, including closing files, archiving and ensuring all relevant paper-based documents are filed electronically.
• Supporting Fee Earners with updating Dynamics; ensuring new business contact details are entered, contacts from Fee Earners' Outlook address books are shared, updating contact changes and activities when BD activity is planned with a client/target.
• Assisting Legal PAs with proactively downloading and printing reports on contacts ahead of meetings and pitches, populating Dynamics mailing lists with contacts as directed by Fee Earners and editing/refining these lists as appropriate.
• Assisting Legal PAs with the billing process, including updating reports, checking time entries, collating supporting information and liaising with the billing team.
• Supporting the group in updating information on Connexus or in

managing and maintaining particular pages.

• Supporting Fee Earners and Legal PAs with the firm inclusivity strategy; key tasks include: booking rooms, coordinating meetings, booking meeting room facilities, arranging events (invitations, room bookings, catering, speaker presentations, event materials).
• Undertaking research using the internet, databases etc.
• Creation, uploading and general maintenance of client sites and extranets.
• Collating and indexing legal documentation.
• Practice group specific support.

Additionally, there are a number of real estate specific tasks which you may be required to undertake if you are a Legal Admin Assistant in our Real Estate department such as but not exclusive to:

• Searchflow searches
• SIM searches
• other Land Registry searches
• company searches
• creation of Laserforms
• Land Registry application forms

Skills and experience required:

• Standard GCSEs a minimum of: C for English Language; C for Maths.

Interpersonal/communication skills:

• Constant enthusiastic, can-do and positive approach to tasks and situations, as well as requests for action outside normal scope of duties.
• Ability to take personal responsibility, ownership and behave responsibly.
• Good communication skills, both oral and written.
• Friendly, co-operative and approachable at all times.
• Remains calm and focussed under pressure i.e. when faced with high volume workloads or difficult situations.
• Ability to build relationships with Fee Earners and Legal PAs.
• Listens carefully and questions to make sure you have all the information you need to take action.
• Displays discretion when dealing with sensitive information.
• It is a key requirement that the LAA is able to demonstrate proactivity, initiative, confidence, attention to detail and willingness to do whatever it takes to ensure the team meets the needs of the clients.

Organisational skills:

• Ability to plan and manage own workload and multiple tasks, and prioritise work calmly and effectively in a pressurised environment.
• Strong organisation and planning skills.

Knowledge/Technical/General Skills:

• Good knowledge of Microsoft and other commonly used software.
• Effective and professional telephone manner.
• Client service orientated approach.
• Able to work either on own initiative or part of team.
• Able to anticipate problems and develop solutions.
• Attentive to detail; sense and quality checking work and the work of others.
• Accountable and professional.
• Ability to develop self and others and be learning oriented, wanting to learn and seek improvement.
• Ability to display discretion when dealing with sensitive and confidential information.
• Willing to learn and understand different cultures as well as have the required patience to ensure good working relationships.

Other requirements:

• Flexibility with responsibilities and working hours as required and willingness to go the 'extra mile' as required.

At Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner we understand the value of a diverse workforce and we believe people perform at their best when they can truly be themselves at work. We aim to create an inclusive environment where all our employees are valued, motivated and able to be themselves. In order to provide the best possible service to our diverse client base, we are committed to recruiting, retaining, rewarding and developing our people with regard to their abilities and contributions and without reference to their background, gender, gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, age, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, political belief, disability or any other protected characteristic.