- Provide administrative and paralegal support to the legal team.
- Assist lawyers with client management and file operations.
- Conduct legal research and manage complex databases.
- Progressive, fast growing firm
- CBD location
- Close knit team environment
The Firm:
Our Client has a long-standing history of more than 140 years serving the metropolitan and regional communities in South Australia and Tasmania. Committed to protecting the rights of individuals, families, employees, retirees, professionals, farmers and small businesses they provide specialist advice across a range of areas including Family Law, Injury Law, Workers Compensation, Unfair Dismissal, Conveyancing, Wills and Estate administration.
The role:
This position plays an integral role in keeping things running smoothly and is responsible for providing co-ordination and facilitation of the workload of the legal specialist area as well as administrative and paralegal support to the legal team.
Tasks include, but are not limited to:
- Assisting Lawyer/s with day-to-day operations of files/client management;
- Assisting and managing the workload of a particular specialist area;
- Providing a first point of contact for clients and answering client enquiries;
- Preparing matters for conferences and hearings;
- Drafting briefs, letters and other documents;
- Corresponding, briefing and liaising with external stakeholders when required;
- Legal research, fact gathering and information retrieval;
- Managing complex databases of information;
- Allocating tasks to Contract Administrators and managing this process;
- Day to day administrative duties as required.
Skills and experience requirements:
- Tertiary qualification in Paralegal Studies;
- Minimum 3 years relevant experience;
- High level computer skills (MS Office suite);
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills;
- High level customer service skills and professionalism;
- Strong work ethic and shows initiative;
- Excellent time management and organization skills;
- Able to work as part of a team as well as autonomously.
How to apply:
If organisation is your passion, you enjoy the satisfaction of ensuring a productive workplace and you are excited by the possibility of joining one of South Australia’s most progressive law firms, please forward your application, to *************************
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