PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

 Due to the ongoing success of the firm, we are looking for a customer service focused administrative professional to join our Legal Support team as a Legal Support Assistant. 
 Based full-time in our Leeds office, you'll play a key role in providing high-quality support to our lawyers, PAs, and senior managers across the firm. 
 This role is an excellent opportunity to contribute significantly to the day-to-day efficiencies of our fee-earning groups with a clear training programme and opportunities for progression.

THE TEAM

We have Legal Support teams based at each of our UK offices providing administrative support across a wide range of tasks to our Fee-earning Groups, their PA's and other Senior Managers across the firm.

We have a dedicated Legal Support training programme with step-graded promotions.  Other internal career progression opportunities are also possible, following an acceptable time working successfully within the team.

WHAT TO EXPECT IN THIS ROLE

You will be fully office-based, working alongside our Secretarial and Office Services teams, providing an exceptional internal customer-focused service.

Taking ownership of tasks, demonstrating a proactive, problem-solving approach and understanding the importance of providing a quality customer service experience, are essential skills for this role as you will be dealing with a high volume of varying tasks across our group practice areas.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The following list is not exhaustive but gives a flavour of the tasks a Legal Support Assistant undertakes:

 Comprehensive hard copy document support including printing, scanning, copying, pagination and binding
 Digital site support uploading to HighQ, downloading using ShareFile, transferring files etc. 
 PDF conversions and extractions, comparisons and redactions
 Mail and courier co-ordination
 Booking travel including timetable/venue research
 Processing expenses and preparing WIP reports
 Managing your tasks via our workflow tool to ensure strict SLAs and deadlines are met

OUR FIRM

Addleshaw Goddard is a place where you are valued, encouraged, and challenged to fulfil your potential in a supportive and collegiate environment.  Our culture of improvement, growth and collaboration delivers results, drives innovation, and rewards ambition. 

We not only provide technical excellence and experience but, crucially, demonstrate real insight into our clients and what really matters to them and as such we are natural choice for FTSE100 clients and their equivalents in other markets.

Our success has been built by people from the widest range of backgrounds, locations, and perspectives. We have a number of employee networks that provide space to discuss the differences that make us who we are and celebrate this at AG.

OUR APPROACH: IMAGINE THE BEST YOU CAN BE

Everything we've accomplished can be traced back to our people and the way we work. Our reputation is something we are proud of, and constantly invest in. 

Here, you'll do high calibre work, with high-character colleagues who care for one another and our clients. 

Are you up for the challenge?