Legal Assistant

Legal Assistant – Dispute Resolution

Portsmouth

Salary dependent on experience

Elite Touch Group are excited to be working with their well-established client who have a fantastic opportunity for a legal assistant to join their busy dispute resolution team based in their Portsmouth office.

The successful candidate will provide secretarial and administrative support to the team enabling them to operate at optimum efficiency whilst providing a high-quality legal service to our clients.

• This is a busy and varied role dealing with all areas of dispute resolution work.
• Diary management and scheduling appointments
• Onboarding new clients and carrying out relevant checks
• Opening/closing and archiving files
• Audio typing and dictation
• Producing documents
• General secretarial and administration duties
• Answering the telephone
• Liaising with clients and third parties

• The successful candidate must have knowledge and experience in this area of law
• Able to communicate in a professional manner with internal and external contacts
• Commitment to providing excellent client care
• Excellent IT skills to include Outlook, Word and Excel
• Excellent organisational skills, attention to detail, ability to multi-task
• Ability to work well under pressure, adapt to changing requirements
• Team-focus with a flexible ‘can do’ and collaborative approach to working with others, but also able to work alone.
• Confidence to communicate with all levels in order to manage expectations and maintain effective working relationships

• Contributory Pension
• Competitive salary
• Client referral gifts
• Additional holiday over Christmas
• Free or reduced Legal costs for staff and their close family members
• Extended sickness policy
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, increasing by 1 day per year after 5 years service, not exceeding 30 days
• Free sight tests
• Health Cash Plan
• Discounted gym membership
• Life Assurance
• Flexible Working

Do not worry if you are not an exact match to the requirements above. If you have comparable experience to our requirements, please also apply so these can be discussed with you.