Legal Team Assistant

at  Burges Salmon

ABOUT BURGES SALMON

Our six core values – Ambition, Collaboration, Commitment, Fairness, Quality and Respect - are at the heart of everything we do and help to shape our unique culture. As well as high quality work and exciting development opportunities, we offer our people a professional, friendly and sociable working environment with a real sense of community.
A full overview of all the benefits of working at Burges Salmon can be found on the ‘working at Burges Salmon’ section of our careers page.
We are delighted to have been named RollOnFriday’s ‘Best Law Firm to Work At’ 2024, for the third year in a row, and also named as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2023. Our commitment to excellence has recently been recognised by the IIP, which awarded us Platinum certification for investment in people.
It’s important to us that our organisation represents the diverse community in which we operate and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities. As a Disability Confident Leader we will provide a fully accessible recruitment process and offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job.
For any questions regarding the role, or to discuss any reasonable adjustments, please contact Katarina Athanasakos at Katarina.Athanasakos@burges-salmon.com
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As a Legal Team Assistant at Burges Salmon, you will actively contribute to the smooth running of your department. The successful candidate will support lawyers on a wide range of tasks, including: full production of documents, co-ordinating changes made by lawyers and proof reading to ensure high standards and consistency, digital dictation, client onboarding, accounts, billing, and co-ordinating travel arrangements.
We offer every new starter a thorough induction and excellent training on our in house legal systems (including iManage and Aderant). Knowledge of these specific systems is not essential but we do require a confident working knowledge of Microsoft Office.