Legal Assistant

5 days ago

Newcastle, Australia Verve Partners Full time

Permanent, full-time position
- Perfect for someone wanting to build and develop their career
- Successful, highly regarded law firm

Our client is a leading law firm, with a team of specialist lawyers focused on delivering superior legal services. They foster a high-performing, professional workplace culture, and provide support for ongoing professional development. As a leader in their field, they have experienced steady growth and offer lots of long-term career opportunities.

An exciting permanent, full-time position is now available within their property and commercial team. This is an office-based position, located in the Newcastle CBD.

**You’ll be responsible for**:
This is an opportunity to support an experienced, professional team. You will be given excellent onboarding and ongoing training to ensure you succeed in the role. Key duties include:

- Filing and archiving
- Opening new matters, maintaining accurate client records and keeping files organised
- Liaising with clients
- Typing from dictation
- Diary management
- General ad-hoc office administration duties

**Essentially you’ll have**:

- Prior experience in an administration role ideally in the legal or real estate industries
- Intermediate skills in the MS Suite
- Confident systems skills, with PEXA and Affinity experience desirable but not essential
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Enjoy helping others and finding solutions to problems
- An excellent eye for detail
- An enthusiastic and positive approach to your work

**What’s in it for me?**

If you are looking to develop a long-term career in law, opportunities don’t get better than this. You will be working with one of Newcastle’s most respected firms, learning from the best in the business. Due to their size, lots of opportunities for long-term career development exist.
- Join a highly reputable and stable organisation
- Secure a permanent role with full-time hours
- Learn and grow your experience and build a career
- Work with a supportive, inclusive, dynamic and collaborative team
- Great location in the heart of Newcastle

**Next steps**:
***
If this sounds like an opportunity for you, please submit your resume and a cover letter. For a confidential chat please call Nicola McKenzie on 0447 313 525.

Verve Partners is an energetic team of specialist consultants reimagining recruitment Australia-wide. With over 170 years of combined experience, we’ve found the sweet spot in talent search - and want to share it. By scouting smart, digging deep and embracing diversity, we grow vibrant careers, cultures and communities. We currently have offices in the lifestyle cities of Newcastle and Wollongong.
- We acknowledge and pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of the land on which we work and live. We pay our respects to the First Peoples of this country, their culture and Elders past, present and emerging. We recognise that this land was and always will be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land because sovereignty was never ceded._

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