Legal PA - Corporate - London - 10 month FTC

Within our Corporate team a role providing you with a broad base of responsibilities. You will have proven strong PA experience, preferably working within a Law firm providing support at Partner level and have strong organisational skills. You will be confident in meeting the frequent demands of a fast paced role with the understanding that strong communication with those you will be supporting is fundamental.,

• Diary management - anticipating and managing all areas of diaries
• E-mail management, checking prioritising and summarising e-mails on a daily basis and reporting on and creating action points
• Time management - ensuring fee earners time and narratives are inputted daily
• Drafting correspondence as required
• Comprehensive travel arrangements including sourcing and booking hotels and transport on our online booking tool
• Establishing own administrative systems
• Efficiently managing own workload and being proactive with the ability to work on own initiative
• Becoming adept at proof reading and quality checks on all work produced
• Building good working relationships with colleagues
• Establishing rapport with clients
• Becoming adept at using CMS CMNO systems and office equipment
• Becoming familiar with legal terminology of practice area
• Establishing relationships with clients and anticipating their needs
• Understanding firm's culture and goals
• Organises document management, including opening files, archiving and ensures that all relevant documents are filed electronically and paper-based, as required
• Demonstrates an understanding of the end-to-end billing process and Elite (Financial System) and liaising with billing team, producing the relevant documentation
• Assisting across practice groups/teams whenever he/she has spare capacity/as required
• Undertaking typing as required either via dictation or by marked up handwritten changes
• Delegating where necessary administrative tasks to administrative members of the team
  
  Experience required
• Strong PA/secretarial background at partner level
• Advanced level written and verbal skills
• 70 wpm typing skills
• Good understanding of Microsoft Office
• Skills & Knowledge
• Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Document management system
• Positive attitude with a practical, common sense approach; resilient
• Audio and copy typing
• Excellent organisational and administrative skills
• Drafting documents autonomously
• Fee/Billing Management
• Confident with excellent communication skills, ability to relate to people at all levels
• Ability to prioritise tasks and remain calm when working under pressure
• Excellent attention to detail
  
  CMS is a Future Facing firm with more than 80 offices in over 45 countries and 5,800+ lawyers worldwide. We combine deep local market understanding with a global perspective. We are passionate about building strong relationships with our clients, our people, and the communities we work in.
We take a bold, dynamic, and agile approach to ensure our clients are able to face the future with confidence. We are driven by emerging technologies such as generative AI and readily embrace the possibilities it opens up for developing new and better ways of working. Our aim is to inspire, impact and support our clients and our people, helping them to maximize their potential and thrive.


• Competitive basic salary (reviewed annually)
• Flexible, hybrid working policy
• Generous bonus scheme
• Up to 25 days holiday (rising to 28 days with service)
• Holiday exchange scheme
• Private medical insurance
• Enhanced parental leave
• Reasonable adjustments and accommodation for disabled talent in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.