Legal Support Assistant
Are you a proactive and organised individual with excellent administrative skills? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment where your contributions make a real difference?
As a Support Assistant, you will play a vital role in providing comprehensive administrative and executive support to the Head of Union Client Relations.
Key Responsibilities
- Managing telephone calls, acting as the first point of contact for clients, defendants, representatives, and third parties.
- Producing a variety of standardised and routine documentation, including letters, emails, reports, court documents, and forms.
- Maintaining diaries, arranging appointments, meetings, travel, and accommodation.
- Handling incoming mail, making diary entries, and managing routine post.
- Organising and maintaining files, undertaking data entry, and designing spreadsheets.
- Coordinating marketing materials for client events and ensuring smooth administrative operations within the unit.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Proficiency in IT and Microsoft Office applications.
- Ability to produce and manage standardised documentation accurately and efficiently.
- Excellent organisational, time management, and communication skills.
- Strong client care skills and the ability to work cooperatively with others.
- Technical and administrative experience in a legal environment.
- Enthusiastic and adaptable attitude towards work.
Benefits
- Contributory pension scheme
- 5 days additional leave over Christmas (Xmas shut down)
- 23 days annual leave (in addition to bank holidays)
- Healthcare Cash Plan (MediCash)
- Disability Confident Employer
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Cycle to work scheme
- Organised sports and social club
- Annual travel and parking loans
- Financial assistance for professional development
About Thompsons Solicitors
For 100 years, leading social justice law firm, Thompsons Solicitors, has been fighting for the rights of the injured and mistreated and changing lives for the better. Since 1921, we have stood shoulder-to-shoulder with trade unions to implement key legal reforms and give a voice to those who might otherwise have been disadvantaged and marginalised.
Thompsons ran:
• the case that established the right for injured workers to be compensated in 1937
• the first asbestos case that was successful in the House of Lords in 1972
• the first equal pay for equal value claim in the UK (1988) and later in Europe (1993)
• the case against UK construction companies for blacklisting union members in 2016
• hundreds of cases on behalf of women who received negligent treatment at the hands of disgraced breast surgeon, Ian Paterson (2017) and behalf of those injured by mesh (2019).
Today, Thompsons employs 800 staff who work at 18 offices right across the UK. Key areas of legal specialism include: personal injury, serious injury, asbestos diseases, medical negligence, road traffic accidents, accidents at work, industrial diseases and trade union law. As a point of principle, the firm has never worked for employers or insurers.
Over the last 100 years, we have consistently won the cases that have advanced the law for working people, but, as long as there are employers who put profit before the safety and rights of their workforce, there is always more to do. We continue to expose injustice, holding those responsible to account and campaigning for positive change.
We want to hear from anyone who is keen to progress a legal career with a firm that won’t let up in its quest for fairness.
Visit www.thompsons.law or call 0800 0 224 224
Thompsons Solicitors is a trading name of Thompsons Solicitors LLP.
More Information
- Address Congress House, 23-28 Great Russell St, London
- Salary Offer £29,044
- Contact Email benwebb@thompsons.law
