Do you have experience in a legal environment? Are you a effective communicator that can build strong client relationships?
The Role
Our client, a top-50 UK law firm, is looking for a Practice Assistant (Real Estate) to join their Bristol team.
Your responsibilities include:
- Manage client relationships, responsible for keeping up to date with client specific protocols and processes
- Assist with the organisation of and support with the scheduling of client events, tender meetings, and client training
- Assist with the organisation of tenders and pitches to ensure the document creation process is managed effectively and to the highest standard
- Support Lawyers in business development activities, including preparation of pitches and presentations
- Manage diaries, organise travel and accommodation, book meeting rooms, prepare and circulate agendas and papers
- Keeping CRM up to date
- Minute taking, uploading documents to PDF, arrange photocopying, printing etc.
- Managing expenses, responsible for client billing process and assisting partners and business development for client and event billing
- Requesting cheques, bank transfers, and paying in money received
- Responsible for managing the creation and maintenance of data rooms and client information
- Monitoring post/emails and ensuring client related correspondence is passed to the appropriate lawyer
Your skills:
- Organised and methodical with excellent attention to detail
- Proven experience of managing high level client facing tasks and priorities
- Customer/client service focused
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Positive can-do attitude with the ability to adapt to change
- Excellent team player
- Taking responsibility and accountability for quality of own work
- Effective problem solver
If this sounds like you, please apply today.