J2393 - File Inceptor - Leeds

Plexus Law Overview

Plexus Law is a Specialist Defendant Insurance Practice with offices in London, Manchester, Leeds, Evesham, Liverpool and associated offices in Scotland. The firm works with Insurance Companies, Corporate and Public Sector Clients and the Lloyd’s market.

Plexus Law has developed carefully tailored packages to meet specific needs stretching from a traditional relationship to the provision of bespoke in-house services.  The firm has a reputation for responding innovatively to client needs, utilising the experience of its staff, emphasising the highest quality and focusing on managing costs in all cases.

Purpose of Role:

To provide administrative legal support to the business team.

Main duties:

You will be required to provide office based legal administrative support to the team including dealing with email correspondence, filing, scanning and faxing, dealing with telephone calls (both internally and externally), incepting new instructions from various clients onto our case management system and maintaining other office  systems.

Ad hoc administrative duties as directed by line manager when necessary.

Qualifications:

Essential

• GCSE/O Level – English Language and Mathematics (A – C)
• Good standard of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Desirable:

• Experience within a legal/insurance administrative environment (1 year)
• Case management experience
• Telephone call handling experience

Knowledge and skills:

• Knowledge and understanding of basic office procedures and terminology
• Be able to complete routine and non-routine tasks in an office environment
• Be able to plan and organise both familiar and new tasks
• Be able to use a problem-solving approach to respond appropriately to a wide range of enquiries
• Can produce and respond to detailed written and oral communication in an office setting
• Can use standard applications to process, obtain and combine information
• Be able to work using own initiative or with others on tasks with minimum supervision
• Show an awareness of others’ roles, responsibilities and requirements when carrying out your work

   

  Equal Opportunities

  The firm is committed to providing a non-discriminatory and harassment free working environment for all its employees. All staff are expected to have due regard for those policies when carrying out their duties.

  All offers are subject to satisfactory DBS checks, credit check and professional/personal referee checks.

  Responsibilities relating to Information Security

  Plexus Law Ltd takes information security very seriously and we expect all our employees to:

• Comply with all applicable security related policies defined by Plexus Law Ltd
• Be vigilant and report security incidents to an appropriate manager
• as quickly as is practicable
• Report any weaknesses they notice in the way information security is managed and if possible provide suggestions for improvement