Legal Administrator

The Company:

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Our client is amongst the UK's top 100 law firms, with over 50 partners and over 500 staff. They have achieved consistent and have grown organically. They strive to deliver an exceptional service at all times. They pride themselves on providing personal, practical and cost effective service to their clients

The Job:

We are delighted to be assisting our client with their requirement for a Legal Administrator based in their Taunton office.

This role is an excellent opportunity for someone wanting to start their legal career. You will work closely with their Conveyancing team to manage client queries, draft relevant documents, and ensure compliance to enable housing transactions goes through smoothly.

Responsibilities will include:

• Provide an efficient and effective admin support service to the Conveyancers.
• Act as first point of contact for enquiries, providing excellent customer service to new and repeat clients.
• Be responsible for initial matter set up procedures; production of confirmation of instruction letters, updating central records, entering of entities and capacities on each new client/matter file.
• Ensure all appropriate quality service and compliance for all matters are met.
• Collate and complete due diligence to comply with Anti Money Laundering Regulations where required.
• Manage routine client telephone enquiries, to ensure all required information and details are obtained to comply with file opening requirements.

The Person:

For this role our client is ideally looking for someone who has gained a little business administration experience or a legal graduate with ideally some administration experience too.

• Ability to manage multiple tasks at once.
• Able to work in an environment that needs accuracy
• Strong IT skills with the ability to become familiar with new systems quickly.
• Excellent team working desire and ability. xwzovoh

The Benefits:

25 days holiday

Life assurance

3% / 5% pension

Weekly lifestyle hour an hour to take at your convenience (extended lunch or late start or early finish)

The Location:

Taunton (located less than 5 minutes from junction 15 on the M5) free parking available

The Hours:

Monday Friday 36.25 hours per week. You are able to deliver your core daily hours any time between 8am and 6pm.

The Salary:

£25,355