Legal Assistant

Full-Time Legal Assistant

We currently seek to recruit an experienced Legal Assistant who will be responsible for providing support in our busy office. The successful candidate will be expected to, and be capable of working on their own initiative.

Key Responsibilities for this role include:

• Digital dictation typing.
• Creating, amending, preparing legal documents.
• Dealing with telephone queries and ensuring that such queries are handled in a professional, courteous and prompt manner.
• Organising and maintaining files.
• Schedule meetings and managing calendars.
• Scanning documents to finalise post-closing process on projects.
• Other legal assistant tasks and ad hoc projects as requested.

The successful candidate will have:

• Relevant administration experience.
• Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills; the ability to manage a busy workload and meet client needs on a consistent basis.
• A very high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Excellent MS Office skills; strong efficiency working with Microsoft Excel.
• Good typing speeds.
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills.
• Ability to exercise sound judgement and decision making.
• Previous experience in a legal office or a Legal course qualification.