Legal Administrator

With over 300 years of legal experience, BDB Pitmans is a well-established top UK law firm with offices in London, Cambridge, Reading and Southampton. Across these locations, we work alongside a diverse range of clients, who we offer a focused and tailored approach to.

Above all, our focus is on doing things right and doing them well. So we aim to build longstanding and mutually beneficial client relationships based on trust and genuine partnership.

What really sets us apart is our friendly, open and inclusive culture. People join and stay at BDB Pitmans as they get the benefits of challenging work in a supportive and professional atmosphere alongside a healthy work/life balance, reflected in our flexible working and target hours.

ED&I

At BDB Pitmans, our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion sits at the heart of who we are as a firm as we are passionate about ensuring we create a work environment where everyone feels safe, respected, and fully supported to be themselves. Our ED&I work, though, goes beyond how we work with our colleagues. Our firm values – we act with respect, we work in partnership, and we find solutions – are deeply embedded in ED&I principles, and heavily inform how we approach client relationships, as well as external partnerships.

The Corporate group advises on all aspects of company law, commercial lending and security, financing and refinancing of business, joint ventures and shareholders' agreements, company reconstructions, private company mergers and acquisitions and MBOs and MBIs, Aim flotation's, takeovers and other public company work.

The role will be working alongside partners and fee earners to provide them with general administrative and legal support.

The main tasks of this role would include:

• Assisting with billing
• Dealing with and responding to client queries
• General administrative tasks such as paper filing, electronic filing (profiling), scanning and archiving, amending documents
• File management (file opening, closing, matter balance clearance, scheduling)
• Answering phones and taking messages wherever appropriate
• Scanning and profiling post
• Maintaining client databases, entering new client and contact information, we use Interaction and Elite
• Providing general support to the wider team

Knowledge/Experience

• Some previous experience of working in a professional or law firm setting is preferred
• Experience of working on corporate law matters would be useful but is not essential as full training will be given. Candidates should however be able to demonstrate an interest in corporate law.
• There will be an opportunity to get involved in matters such as legal research for active matters as you become more familiar with the role.

Skills

•  An organised approach to working
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to prioritise
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills