Legal Support Administrator

at  Irwin Mitchell

We’re a national law firm with a local reach. Our philosophy is ‘we’re legal and financial experts that care’ – something you’ll find in the way we work with our clients and how we support our teams. But we’re more than just a law firm – we’re a team of people working together to help individuals and businesses navigate life’s ups and downs. Working here you’ll feel a part of our friendly and inclusive environment.
We’ll value you for who you are and what you bring. We support each other and push boundaries to achieve incredible things and make a real difference to our clients and communities.
We’re always looking to support our colleagues to work in a way that works best for them and everyone else, including our clients, the business and the regulators. Please speak to one of our Talent Acquisition team to find out more.

ABOUT YOU

• Enthusiasm, a can-do attitude and willingness to contribute to the team
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Ability to manage change and meet change in demands of the business
• Great accuracy and attention to detail with the ability to multi task
• Great time management skills
• Ability to work within strict service level agreements
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

We’re proud of our values, and we’re looking for people who share them:

• To be pioneering with an imaginative outlook
• To be approachable and caring
• To be tenacious in the pursuit of our objectives
• To be efficient in the provision of our services
• To work with a foundation of integrity.

If this sounds like you, we’d love to receive your application.

If you enjoy being part of a successful, friendly and high-performing team, then this is the job for you. You’ll be working closely with the team’s Associates and Partners to make sure they have the right administrative support at all times. This is a busy and fast-paced role, so you’ll need to be able to work quickly and accurately, building strong relationship with your team and our clients. There’s lots of room for progression and we’d really like to support you in your professional development.

You will be:

• Handling fee earner queries by email & MS Teams
• Making sure all team files are in good order and databases are kept up-to-date
• Opening & closing case files on the relevant case management systems
• Making payments of invoices, cheques, BACs payments & billing
• Supporting fee earners with the preparation of cases, e-bundles & paper bundles
• Preparing digital files for audit
• Administration of the departments digital storage platforms
• Booking fee earner travel and meetings and managing expenses
• Managing the office inbound post, printing, scanning
• Managing Radiology requests across multiple digital platforms
• Dealing with urgent support requests within a timely manner