Miles & Partners (London) – Legal Assistant
Miles & Partners are seeking bright law graduates with a professional outlook to join our team as Legal Assistants providing paralegal support to our busy specialist award-winning lawyers in our Family, Housing/JR, and Court of Protection Teams. The roles begin in June/July 2025 and will suit LLB or equivalent graduates who have completed at least a year of LPC/BPTC, completed SQE 1, or completed 6 months relevant work experience after graduating from their LLB or equivalent.
Experience of working in a busy legal environment with Legal Aid and CCMS will be an advantage but is not essential. We are committed to agile working, so you need to be self-motivated and possess a willingness and ability to work independently whilst maintaining professional standards. The successful applicants will also have a positive outlook, good communication skills, numeracy and IT skills, a willingness to learn and accept responsibility, enthusiasm, commitment, and the ability to work well in a team.
The posts on offer have a wide range of duties ranging from some clerical work to liaising with the Legal Aid Agency, the courts, experts, and counsel, attending interviews with experts to take notes, assisting in arrangements for conferences, preparation of court bundles and accompanying documentation, preparation of documents for Counsel, and occasionally attending Court with Counsel. With appropriate experience and training, we would expect you to progress to preparing statements and applications, attending clients and taking instructions, and legal research.
We recruit on merit, irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity, race or ethnicity, marital status, religion, sex, or sexual orientation. We are seeking a minimum engagement of twelve months. Salary £25,750 pa.
Applicants should send a C.V. and covering letter to katy.jennings@milesandpartners.com by 21 April 2025.
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