This is an excellent opportunity to join us as a Legal Support Assistant (LSA) within our Real Estate Dispute Resolution team.

The LSA will provide high quality support interacting daily with EAs/PAs and fee earners while having the ability to prioritise workloads and liaise with other support functions to ensure timely delivery. The role is also part of the LSA team with shared responsibilities to meet business needs.

Core Hours are Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm, with a flexible hybrid working arrangement.

Main responsibilities

Working across a variety of tasks and responsibilities including;

• Support client onboarding processes, including opening new clients and matters in line with compliance requirements, and preparing engagement letters.
• Managing diaries to record key dates, court and procedural deadlines.
• Document management – submitting documents via CE-Filing and monitoring the filing status, preparing transcripts from recorded meeting or calls, drafting, formatting, comparing, amending emails/documents/attendance notes, and filing when required.
• Filing and serving legal documents - including notices and pleadings and tracking service and delivery, preparing standard letter templates for correspondence with the court and other relevant parties.
• Photocopying, printing and scanning, with delivery/collection of larger volumes via Document Services Team, and arranging couriers.
• Undertaking conflict searches, and further legal/factual research using the internet, databases etc.
• Collating, indexing and structuring of both physical and/or electronic legal documents, such as supporting the preparation of case bundles and documentation for hearings, investigations and regulatory submissions.
• Assisting with archiving, to include scheduling documents/deeds and sending to storage.
• Maintaining the stationery supplies and ensuring the areas are kept tidy.
• Finance related admin - assisting with inputting expenses on Chrome River, dealing with all forms of payment requests and Elite 3E queries.
• Booking departmental and other internal meetings.
• Downloading/uploading data room documents and saving to appropriate files/locations.
• Submitting full property searches on Land Registry and other third party applications, keeping the fee earner up to date on search results received and managing outstanding search results.
• Requesting and storing Wills and other similar documents from/onto Willbase.
• Liaising with third parties to obtain documentation, including Probate Registry, HMCTs and other institutions where required.
• Handling incoming case materials from clients/third parties.
• Assisting with any other department ad hoc duties, such as business development tasks.