Legal Administrator

Our client is specialist law firm with a friendly and hard-working small team based in offices in central Guildford. They are ideally looking for a graduate keen to start their first full time role .

About the role

This is a unique opportunity working closely with the key individuals in the business where you will be exposed to all aspects of how a solicitors practice is run and report to the most senior management in the firm.

You will be given a wide variety of tasks for which they will provide training, and you will then be able to perform them independently and to a high standard. Success in the role will be achieved by providing an exceptional level of support to the business development team, which is led by the senior partner.

The role will involve some client facing work as well as back-office support, including:

• Follow up and close sales opportunities

• provide admin and sales support to the senior partner

• New client on-boarding

• Build and maintain accurate contact records within our CRM

• Administrative support with marketing, webinars and seminars

• Work with the legal support team to provide ad hoc support to solicitors

You will need to quickly develop an understanding of the legal and business needs .As the firm is growing very quickly and this is a key role, there are excellent opportunities for personal development. Development could be into either legal practice (for example as a paralegal), business administration, or sales and marketing.

About You

You will be a self-starter and be excited to join a small team that will value your contribution. You will have outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, be methodical, professional and demonstrate a strong attention to detail with excellent accuracy. You will also be commercially astute and able to instinctively identify opportunities for further work. The right candidate will take pride in 'addingvalue’ by spotting and communicating problems rather than just 'doing what is asked’, will have excellent knowledge of MS Office products and be very IT literate as they are a truly paperless firm.

In return they offer a great working environment , training and support .

Sandiford Green operate as a recruitment business in relation to this role.