PLEASE NOTE: This role is not on the list of occupations eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route.
We are looking to recruit an Administrative Assistant to support the Specialty team in London, which specialises in insurance litigation. The Specialty team undertakes a broad range of substantial, challenging and largely contentious work.
Main duties and responsibilities
- Providing administrative support to the team
- Providing assistance to the team with the billing process (including sending invoices to clients) and debt recovery
- Carrying out conflict checks and opening new matters on the firm’s systems
- Arranging and co-ordinating meetings, events and seminars, in close co-operation with fee-earners
- Completion of management information
- Booking travel and dealing with expenses, in accordance with firm policy
- Deal with confidential, sensitive and restricted internal and client matters
- Ad hoc support to campaign and marketing activities
- Effective liaison with support staff to manage workloads efficiently
- Assisting with other work allocated by the Team Manager
- Work in accordance with Weightmans’ values
Basic fee earning work, including:
- Drafting basic correspondence, document reviews, chronologies and preparing court and other documentation
- Preparing instructions to experts/counsel and paper/electronic bundles of documents
- Liaising by phone and e-mail with client contacts and third parties
- Attending meetings and preparing attendance notes
- Recording time for an such chargeable work
This list is only intended to be indicative of the types of activities which the successful candidate will be involved in.