Burnetts is one of the most progressive law firms in the North of England and have not only achieved awards for being a Great Place to Work© each year from 2021, but also hold the accreditations for being one of the UK wide Best Workplaces for Women, for Wellbeing, and for Development.
We have an exciting new role of Legal Assistant that we are recruiting for, to support our Wills, Trusts & Probate team in Carlisle. Whilst full-time would be preferable, we will also consider part-time hours (3.5/4 days) for the right candidate.
Who are we looking for?
The successful candidate will join our busy and friendly team, and be able to demonstrate sound knowledge and experience of office administration, ideally in a legal environment
Knowledge and experience of assisting with wills, trusts and probate law matters is desirable. Specific training will be provided as necessary on our systems, legal procedures and the relevant law.
The role will include:
- Proactively managing diaries and arranging appointments.
- Contact with clients to obtain necessary information for conflict and AML checks.
- Liaising with Compliance Team as necessary to ensure all relevant client information is up to date on case management and compliance systems.
- Prepare correspondence and documents from digital dictation and copy typing where required.
- Preparing and giving quotes as delegated by department based fee earners.
- Liaising with Compliance Team as necessary to open and close files.
- Filing, archiving, photocopying, scanning documents as and when required.
The successful candidate will have a proactive, ‘can-do’ attitude to enable them to work closely with a team of legal fee-earners, paralegals and legal assistants on all aspects of this work. The ability to work as part of a team is therefore essential together with excellent communication, organisational and IT skills.
What do we offer?
This is an excellent opportunity for the right candidate with the potential of longer-term career advancement in a forward-thinking law firm with a well-established client base. Along with this we will provide you with a competitive salary, pension, 30 days holiday and Private Medical Health Insurance; in addition, we will even give you your birthday off every year too!
Our values of Togetherness, Balanced, Accountable, Progressive and Integrity, help to engender a culture of providing excellent client service within a caring and supportive internal environment. Please see our website for further information about who we are and what we value at: https://www.burnetts.co.uk/. To read more about how great it is to work for us, please visit
https://www.greatplacetowork.co.uk/workplace/item/3520/Burnetts
If this role sounds like the next step in your career, then please send a copy of your CV with a covering letter to yourfuture@burnetts.co.uk
Closing date: Friday 20th December.
Please be aware that we are closed from 24th December until 2nd January 2025. We will therefore update you on the status of your application before Friday 10th January.
