Legal Assistant/Paralegal/NQ Solicitor
Milton Keynes
Salary negotiable depending upon experience
Duties include:-
- To assist all Solicitors with a number of family law clients in relation to divorce, children (private law), injunctions, cohabitees, financial remedy. All privately funded work and undertake your own caseload.
- To undertake work in a timely and efficient manner, reporting where appropriate. This could be either fee earning or administrative work to include but not limited to:-
- New client appointments
- Deal with any matters thereafter
- Prepare Court Applications
- Take instructions from clients over the telephone or face to face
- Prepare Statements
- Prepare Form E financial statements
- Prepare any other Court document or other documents
- Prepare bundles
- Photocopying
- Deal with any procedural tasks delegated to you
- Deal with any correspondence delegated to you
- Sit behind Counsel, prepare attendance notes and report back thereafter
- Record all work on the file and on the firm’s time recording system and invoice monthly as appropriate
- Ensure files are kept in order
- Ensure files are compliant with internal procedures, SRA, The Law Society and external regulations
- Any other task of a fee earning or administrative nature assigned to you.
- To consider each relevant and procedural element of all client matters on a regular basis and when appropriate or necessary, advise or consult with the client and/or receive, record and action their proper instructions
- To keep up to date with all aspects of the law, its practice and procedures
- To be responsible for maintaining the level of technical and service standards set by the firm
- To achieve specified targets set for you for time recording and fees.
You will also ensure that:-
- All aspects of the client’s matters are dealt with properly.
- Review, consider and assess as necessary from time to time any cases or delegated aspects of cases and any cases it is your responsibility to deal with.
- Issue proceedings, as appropriate, and ensure that proceedings are properly dealt with thereafter.
- Deal with interlocutory matters and comply with all time limits imposed by the Courts.
- Instruct Counsel, where appropriate, to advise or appear in Court on behalf of the client.
- Prepare cases for hearing and arrange representation at any hearing, if necessary.
- Report to your supervisor at all times to fulfil the requirements of the job, and to accept and promptly act upon their proper instructions
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THIS POSITION PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR CV TO TANYA BROWN AT BROWNS RECRUITMENT GROUP AS DIRECTED.