Thomas Legal
Legal Assistant – Gloucester Based
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Salary: Dependent on Experience
Location: Brunswick House, Gloucester Business Park, Brockworth, GL3 4AA
Hours: Monday – Friday, 9am-5pm, (35 hours per week)
Job Description
A fantastic opportunity for you to kick start your legal career!
Thomas Legal are an award-winning residential property firm. Our aim is to be the very best national provider of conveyancing services, with a team who are passionate about providing an exceptional service. As we have continued to grow, we have insisted on only recruiting the best people with a genuine passion for property work. We are currently looking for a like-minded individual to join our dynamic team.
The Role
As a Legal Assistant, you will play a pivotal role in progressing a broad manner of conveyancing matters under the direction and supervision of a qualified member of staff. Duties will include:
- Opening new cases
- Undertaking client due diligence and AML checks
- Taking a proactive role in reporting to both clients and introducers in relation to the progress of their transaction
- Ensuring matter files and billing systems are up to date
- Interpreting legal correspondence, forms, and procedures (under supervision)
- Ensuring all associated administration tasks are completed in a timely manner
Our ethos is “to promote from within”. We provide every member of staff with a comprehensive training programme covering both technical and softer skills aspects of the role. As such, with hard work the right person would typically progress from Legal Assistant to Senior Legal Assistant in a relatively short period of time. We are also a registered training provider meaning we can offer our staff the opportunity to go on and complete a training contract with us. Training contracts are only offered to existing members of staff.
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Essential Criteria
- GCSE Maths and English Grade A – C
- Experience using Word, Excel, and Outlook
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Desirable Criteria
- A Law Degree (ideally 2:1 or above) or equivalent Law Qualification
- Prior legal experience or work experience
- Experience working within a service-driven administrative team
Benefits
A comprehensive flexible benefits package for all staff which includes:
- Hybrid working (home and office)
- 24 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Additional day off for your birthday
- Additional annual leave for long service including a one-month fully paid sabbatical
- Monthly employee recognition awards
- 9DF flexible working benefit
- Holiday Trading Scheme
- Life Assurance
- Health Care Cash Plan
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- EAP service and wellbeing programme
- 2 x paid charity volunteering days
- Study Support Programme
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Discounted corporate gym membership
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted shopping/restaurants scheme
- Free monthly breakfasts and lunches
- Teambuilding, sporting, and social events throughout the year, both company-wide events and in individual teams
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