Details:
- Salary: £28,000 - 30,000 - Annum
- Location: Horsham
- Date: 1 month ago
Description:
Legal Assistant | West Sussex | This is an office-based role | Full Time | £28,000-£30,000
Our client is a long established and highly reputable immigration firm based in West Sussex, very close to Horsham Station with direct rail links to Croydon and London Bridge.
The company are currently recruiting Legal Assistants to join their existing immigration team this year. This is an exciting opportunity for a graduate to start work within a hugely successful and quality-driven immigration business and achieve Level 1 OISC accreditation in short order.
They are a small, busy practice, with several hundred corporate clients of varying sizes and a large number of individual clients, many of whom they have worked with for many years.
As a junior team member under direct supervision, you will assist in the day-to-day functions of the team. You will be providing both fee-earning and administrative support to the team to ensure that individual tasks are completed cost-effectively and at the appropriate level.
Are you the right person for the job?
Final year student with a predicted 2.1 or first class degree preferred, although any highly intelligent and diligent person with a legal mind and office-based skillsets would be considered
Preferably have some experience/knowledge of immigration law
Demonstrable attention to detail and ability to achieve a high level of productivity
Be a highly motivated, resourceful self-starter with a positive can-do manner
Multitask in a fast-paced environment with competing demands
Meet assigned deadlines and communicate case progress/status/issues to supervisors
Understand our Company culture and team values and embrace and promote them
You will be charismatic and engaging
You will be a good workload planner who can manage time vs tasks
Have a confident, calm and well-spoken phone manner
Excellent English and highly competent written and oral communication skills
What will your role look like?
Legal research
Assisting the team with handling of cases on a day-to-day basis
Handling website leads and working up draft responses where relevant
Keeping abreast with changes to immigration law
Drafting client care letters and invoices, using our MS 365-based CRM
Assisting with billing, narratives and administration
Filing completed casework
Participating in social media networking via LinkedIn and at local events
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