Exciting opportunity to work for a renowned boutique law firm, who are looking for a practice assistant to help run a busy office and provide administration support to the legal and marketing teams and also provide front of house assistance. 

Key Responsibilities:

Legal support/administration duties:

• Providing support on legal documents and correspondence, including formatting and proof-reading
• Assisting with new matter administration, including setting up new matters on the firm’s time-recording and document management systems
• Creating/maintaining working/correspondence files (including the necessary copying/scanning) and court/client bundles

Marketing administration duties:

• Assisting with adding to and maintaining the client/marketing database
• Assisting with pitch documents/presentations and making up marketing packs
• Assisting with marketing event planning and administration
• Managing newsletter compilation and distribution
• Managing bulk marketing mailings
• General marketing project administrative support

Front-desk duties:

• Answering incoming telephone calls
• Liaising with IT support and other external suppliers (such as property management) when issues arise
• Staffing Reception, including greeting external visitors and managing meeting room bookings and the presentation of meeting rooms
• Maintaining weekly capacity record

This is an ideal opportunity for an administrator with 12 months’ experience to join a dynamic and forward thinking firm and take on some office management duties. You must be able to prioritise a busy workload and multi task effectively to meet deadlines; have strong communication skills with the confidence to communicate with senior management and external stakeholders; and be comfortable working a very fast paced environment.

McKinlay Law endeavour to contact all successful candidates within 24 hours. However, due to the volume of applications that we receive, we are not able to respond to every candidate individually. If you have not heard from us within 24 hours your application has been unsuccessful and we have not retained your details.