Litigation PA Team Leader at top UK Law Firm to £40,500
- Recruiter
- Larbey Evans Ltd
- Location
- London (Greater)
- Salary
- Up to £40,500 + Excellent Benefits
- Posted
- 31 Jul 2018
- Closes
- 28 Aug 2018
- Ref
- LE9126
- Job Title
- Legal PA
- Practice Area
- Banking, Corporate, Corporate Finance / M&A
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Fast expanding UK law firm is seeking to recruit a new Team Leader within the Litigation department to provide a first class secretarial service along with demonstrating leadership, initiative and enthusiasm in developing others within the team. The role will still be a hands-on PA position, where you will be supporting fee earners with extensive diary management, organising detailed travel itineraries, typing correspondence, developing a good understanding of your fee earners’ work and liaising with clients. The Team Leader element of the role will allow you extra responsibilities such as leading the team of department secretaries on a day-to-day basis, approving holidays and managing all secretarial absences and cover requirements by booking float support, being a first point of contact for all secretarial new joiners, taking ownership of operational and performance issues along with the Secretarial Manager, playing a key role in the secretarial appraisal process which includes collating all feedback from the fee-earners, assisting with changes to the secretarial allocation, proactively monitoring sickness absence of the team, ensuring the team have the necessary skills to carry out the role and proactively organising training if needed and working with the support services supervisors and managers to ensure that the department’s operations needs are met. Candidates should have extensive experience working at Partner level within a Litigation team, strong administration and organisational skills and must be advanced on the Microsoft Office Packages. Additionally, candidates must have experience of managing a team previously. This firm is housed in stunning London offices plus offer a fantastic benefits package.