The Role
Your primary role as a Legal Assistant, working within our Clinical Negligence and Serious Injury Team, will be to assist the lawyers progressing their cases, which will include the following day to day tasks:
* Assisting with Access Requests for medical records and associated follow up
* Sorting medical records to produce relevant chronologies
* Obtaining additional or missing records or information
* Paginating medical records
* Collating documents to accompany instructions to experts/counsel
* Researching/approaching medical experts
* Liaising with clients over the phone or by email
* Liaising with the Court and other third parties over the phone or by email
* Liaising with Defendant representatives over the phone or by email
* Drafting letters/documents
* Drafting witness statements
* Arranging appointments and conferences
* Opening files and drafting new client packs
* Insuring cases
* Assisting with taking new claims enquiries and obtaining all relevant information when required
* Updating internal systems
* Assisting Fee Earners and carrying out other ad hoc tasks that assist the team
* Maintaining compliance in accordance with internal policies and GDPR
What experience do I need?
We are looking for an experienced Legal Administrative Support Secretary or Legal Assistant looking for their next role. You should demonstrate an interest for working within a Clinical Negligence and Serious Injury department and will ideally have previous experience of working in a role that has had to deal with medical records and chronologies. We will consider candidates with PI experience.
What skills should I have?
* Conscientious and meticulous with great attention to detail
* Strong IT skills, particularly experience with having used customer/client databases and MS packages such as Outlook, Word and Excel
* Analytical skills
* Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
* A great team player
* Flexible
What are we offering?
* A supportive, relaxed and flexible work environment in an experienced and growing team.
* 28 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays
* Medicash and Unum dental cash back schemes after 1 years’ service
* Life Insurance
* EAP and various other physical and mental wellbeing support services
* Family friendly policies such as enhanced maternity and paternity pay plus, family events leave
* Company sick pay
* Cycle scheme
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