Key skills
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About this role
Role Overview
- Calendar management, including scheduling meetings, travel coordination, court hearings and tracking key dates
- Drafting, formatting, editing and preparing legal correspondence and documents, with a meticulous approach to accuracy and presentation
- Managing financial processes and the full life cycle of legal matters, including opening matters, conflict checking, high volume end of month billing, trust payments, write offs, file closing and archiving
- Providing day to day administrative support, including answering calls, managing mail, printing, scanning and document handling
- Liaising with clients, counsel, third parties and internal stakeholders with professionalism, confidence and warmth.
Requirements
- A background in legal administration support or you are a law student with at least 12 months remaining and demonstrated experience in legal support
- An interest in client and case management and litigation processes
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Word, including styles, templates and complex formatting
- Fast, accurate and detail oriented work habits, with the ability to manage multiple deadlines
- Discretion and professionalism when handling sensitive and confidential information
- Experience using Elite or similar finance software for billing, reporting and matter management
- Strong working knowledge of Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint, with the ability to produce professional quality documentation
- A proactive, adaptable and team oriented mindset.
Benefits
- Equitable salary packaging, incentive pay and rewards
- Salary continuous insurance (for permanent employees or employees on a 6 month or more maximum term contract basis)
- Salary sacrificing and novated leases
- 5 days Bonus Leave per year after 12 months of service
- Additional leave options
- Equal family leave for all genders (including kinship groups)
- Floating public holidays for days of cultural significance
- Exclusive retailer discounts
- Offices designed for collaboration on Gadigal, Naarm, Yuggera, Kaurna and Whadjuk land
- Learning & Development opportunities
- Generous health and wellbeing programs
- Agile and flexible working for all
- Social and diversity networks providing year-round events
- Opportunities to undertake pro-bono legal work