The vacancy
We are seeking a Legal Assistant to join our Financial Services Litigation department based out of our offices in Chandler’s Ford. You’ll work between our Litigation and conveyancing teams, to undertake a first-class service for the firm’s lender clients.
More about us: Formed via a merger in 2020, Moore Barlow recently launched its refreshed brand and firmly positioned itself as a leading regional law firm. We are featured in The Times’ Best Law Firms 2024 list, and consistently achieve recognition for the quality of our services in the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners.
We strive to develop long-term working relationships with our clients by ensuring that we deliver our services with empathy, expertise, and a “Human-First” approach. We are now 450 people, including 272 lawyers and 72 Partners, with offices across the South-East and London.
Day to day
The focus of this role is to provide support to the team’s fee-earners on various day to day tasks, with the prospect to progress your skills and potential to get more involved. This role would be well suited to a proactive and confident individual with strong administration skills and high attention to detail. You will be working within a fun and collaborative team who value each other’s support and input.
Responsibilities
Our Legal Assistants play a crucial role in our team, handling both chargeable and non-chargeable work while managing their own responsibilities and supporting other fee earners with more complex matters. This role offers a unique opportunity to gain experience in both litigation and transactional work, including:
1. Scanning and organising paperwork.
2. Managing billing processes.
3. Opening and closing legal files.
4. Handling incoming and outgoing post and correspondence.
5. Assisting with mortgage repossession cases, including issuing claims, preparing witness statements and hearing bundles, and liaising with the courts.
6. Assisting with property transactions, including assisting with contract packs, exchange, and completion paperwork and liaising with the clients and the Land Registry.
7. Adhering to client service agreements and preparing management information.
8. Providing efficient and clear communication to clients and colleagues, keeping them informed.
9. Assisting and supporting team members with tasks as needed.
About You
First and foremost, we are a welcoming team who look for the same. Therefore, you will ideally be an individual who is open, flexible and excited by about learning new things.
Perhaps you are a law graduate looking to kick-start your career with your first legal support role, or an experienced administrator who is seeking a brand new challenge. Either way, you should have a passion for excellent client-service and naturally take an organised and efficient approach to your work.
Whilst some prior legal or admin experience would be great, we are keen to hear from those who have related work or study experience and can demonstrate an interest in this line of work.
If you have this experience and are keen to develop your career, then we’d strongly encourage you to apply.
Who We Are
We are Moore Barlow, a top regional career law firm with a simple mission – to make a difference.
We support our clients and the communities we help through providing outstanding legal services with empathy and expertise. A full service law firm, we support these core client groups: Individuals & Families, Entrepreneurial Businesses & Organisations and Personal/Catastrophic Injury & Medical Negligence.
We are passionate about making a difference to our people, their careers and care deeply about their experience at work. Moore Barlow aims to be recognised as the best career law firm to work for. This means that we care as much about your career as you do. So whether you join us early in your career, in one of our outstanding business support functions or are continuing an already rich career in law, you’ll find Moore Barlow a great place to further build your experience.
With numerous top-tier rankings in law, exceptional quality of work and named a Times Top 100 best law firm to work for, we have big plans. We are seeking passionate, human-focused individuals like you as we continue to grow. With over 450 dedicated professionals including 70 Partners and 272 Lawyers, Moore Barlow offers substantial opportunity for further advancement and personal development.
What We Can Offer
Our culture is open, diverse and inclusive and we look for likeminded individuals who recognise that it’s this individuality that allows us to be truly different to other firms. Everything we do is underpinned by the Moore Barlow Way, which is a set of values and principles to ensure consistency of experience no matter which team you work within.
As a true career firm, we seek to reward the great work our people undertake with continued personal development opportunities. We have big plans for growth, and we see that this creates extensive opportunity for our people as we move towards our long-term ambitions.
In most of our roles, we are also open to supporting hybrid, flexible working and different work patterns. What you do outside of work is as important as your time inside of work – and we want to strike the right balance for both the individual and the firm.
We also offer great benefits including 28 days’ annual leave, private medical insurance, income protection, life assurance, firmwide bonus scheme and a generous pension scheme.
If you’re seeking to join a firm that seeks to provide a personal and highly engaging place to work – we are confident that you’ll find this at Moore Barlow.
Our values
Human
first
Stronger
together
Lead the
way
Make it
happen
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