Legal Personal Assistant/Law Clerk
Looking for legal assistant/paralegal with at least 5 years experience to join friendly and skilled close-knit team in busy boutique law firm.
Summary about this job
Legal Secretaries
Company: David Davis & Associates
Location: Melbourne
Work type: Part Time
Salary: $60,000 - $64,999 incl super
Phone: +61-7-7350-6815
Fax: +61-2-8049-9741
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Detail information about job Legal Personal Assistant/Law Clerk. Terms and conditions vacancy
About Our Team
We are a boutique law firm in Melbourne’s hip and trendy northern suburbs. Our firm’s focus and expertise is in Wills and Estates (including litigation), Property Law, and Commercial law. The firm is a close-knit team of skilled professionals who enjoy working together and engaging in a client centred approach to deliver quality, practical and exceptional legal services. The team advises clients on a wide variety of matters within our practice areas including elder abuse, Wills (simple and complex), business succession planning, probate and estate administration, estate litigation, conveyancing, property law disputes, business sales, commercial leasing and commercial litigation.
About the Role
The role involves personal assistant/paralegal support to the principal solicitor and other solicitors and law clerks as necessary. The role may be full time or part-time. The main responsibilities include:
- extensive diary management and arranging appointments;
- coordination of meetings and greeting clients when they attend;
- preparation of legal documents and general correspondence;
- extensive file management;
- maintaining principal’s diary and emails;
- typing, editing and proof reading letters, memos, briefs and court documents;
- preparing briefs to counsel;
- indexing discoverable documents;
- drafting correspondence;
- liaising with clients, lawyers and other staff as required;
- preparing monthly client reports and itemised accounts;
- billing and debtor management;
- collating and reporting on referrer status;
- operating and managing simple files;
- liaising and ordering with suppliers and service providers;
- reception duties including:
- answering incoming calls
- mail check
- banking
- archiving and deeds
- co-ordinating staff social events
- managing casual administration staff; and
- assisting other personal assistants and lawyers as necessary.
About Your Skills and Experience
We are seeking a personal assistant/paralegal with at least 5 years’ experience in Wills and Estates and/or Conveyancing and/or Commercial law. The position suits a team player who works in well with a close-knit team, but is also readily comfortable showing initiative and working autonomously. You will need excellent legal technical skills, and have a sharp eye for detail together with meticulous organisational abilities. We’re looking for excellent inter-personal skills with clients and other stakeholders and the ability to develop effective working relationships within the team. Additionally, you must be proficient in MS Office and be able to quickly familiarise yourself with legal practice management systems.
Our law firm is proud of its positive culture, flexibility with days and hours, and a healthy life/work balance. We are committed to ensuring both staff and client satisfaction as we believe this provides the happiest working relationships and positive client service experience.
We are happy to offer an excellent salary package commensurate with experience.
We will consider both part-time and full time applicants.
To apply email your cover letter and CV to Eleanor Davis [email protected]