Legal PA- Litigation

We have an exciting opportunity for an organised individual to join our team!

The Personal Assistant will be responsible for providing a comprehensive, proactive PA and administrative support service, showing initiative and working unprompted, enabling fee earners to maximise their fee earning potential and develop their practice.

What we need from you

✔ Excellent written and communication skills.

✔ Ability to organise and prioritise workload.

✔ Flexibility and adaptability.

What you'll be doing

• Acting as a point of contact for clients (new and existing) and internal and external contacts
• Matter management, to include file opening/client inception
• Manage accurate monthly delivery of volume bills
• Diary management, including making appointments and bookings, diarising hearings and deadlines
• Audio typing/transcription of dictation and documents where required by the fee earners
• Organising and booking travel arrangements
• Submitting expense claims
• Providing prompts and reminders for fee earners’ important tasks and deadlines
• Assisting with the preparation of standard form correspondence
• Implementing and maintaining administrative systems and procedures

Benefits

Our successful candidate will have an incredible opportunity to develop a rewarding and successful career with an award-winning law firm in a flexible and agile working environment.

We provide a competitive salary and benefits package, including 25 days’ holiday (increasing to 32 days through our loyalty recognition programme) plus the option to purchase an extra five days each year.

We also offer a pension scheme, private medical insurance, life assurance and income protection insurance, as well as plenty of opportunities to get involved in our colleague committees to make a real impact in the local community.

About Brabners

Brabners is purpose-led independent law firm. A certified B Corp with award-winning environmental credentials, we seek to demonstrate that business can bring about positive change by being innovative, diverse and sustainable.

With over 200 years of history, we’re proudly anchored in the North but serve businesses and individuals across England and Wales.

We have won awards for being innovative at the Legal 500 Northern Powerhouse Awards and diverse as Manchester Law Society’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Champions. We are also recognised as one of the 25 best large companies to work for in the UK and have won The Legal 500 Future Lawyers awards for job satisfaction, quality of work, social life and work/life balance.

We have a number of colleague-led affinity groups including for LGBTQ+, REACH, physical and mental health and social mobility, as well as a sustainability, environmental and green group.

It’s all part of how we make the difference.