Legal Support Assistant

Job Title: Legal Support Assistant

Group: General Counsel's Office

Location: Birmingham 

About the Business: 

Here at Pinsent Masons we bring together the best people to get the job done. We're naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We'll truly value your ideas. You'll be joining an award-winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you'll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You'll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work. Working in an open and supportive environment, to deliver outstanding results. 

Purpose of the role

This role will be assisting a visually impaired lawyer in the data protection team of an international law firm.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assisting in keeping the lawyer apprised of data protection developments in the news by means of weekly news updates including with respect to MEA and APAC regions 
• Assisting with reading comparison documents and documents containing track changes
• Reading aloud from a variety of sources, including letters, books, contracts, legislation
• Proof reading documents and emails for typos and ensuring good quality output from a visual point of view
• Organising/filing emails and searching for documents within emails and the Firm's document management systems 
• Taking notes on calls and in meetings
• Assisting with legal research via use of internal and external electronic resources. For example, intranet sites, Practical Law (PLC) and the Information Commissioner's Office website 
• Assisting with any ad hoc administrative and personal tasks
• Attending conferences, seminars and other events which may occasionally require overseas travel
• Travel to other Pinsent Masons offices may be required, as appropriate
• Candidate must be prepared to be flexible and work from the office as requested (typically 2-3 times a week, but subject to change)

Candidate Overview

We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience: 

• Excellent Information Technology skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent attention to detail, grammar and punctuation
• A degree in Law, studied Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx), or Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) 
• Desirable - Experience of a legal role (for example, as a paralegal)
• Desirable - Legal Practice Course (LPC)
• Flexible and able to manage frequent and sometimes last-minute changes in own workload and diary 
• Highly collaborative, emotionally intelligent and empathetic 
• Proficient in using legal research resources
• Responsible and adaptable, someone who takes sound initiative and pride in their work output 
• Able to prioritise and work to strict deadlines

What can we offer you?

• Carers' leave (up to five paid days' leave towards caring responsibilities) 
• 25 days' annual leave entitlement and the opportunity to purchase or roll over 5 days.
• Contributory pension of up to 5%.
• Private healthcare policy 
• Death in service cover (4 x base salary).
• Eligibility to apply for an interest free season ticket loan, an interest free gym membership loan and/or an interest free rental deposit loan.
• Cycle to work scheme.

What happens next? 

Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email. 

We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate. 

Our strength lies in our differences.

We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a founding member of the Mindful Business Charter, signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It's with different perspectives that we'll find solutions to our clients' most complex challenges. It's how we'll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.