Legal Assistant

Job Title

- Legal Assistant

- Role

- Legal Secretary/Assistant

- Expertise

- Legal Secretary/Assistant

- Job Location

- Sydney

- Description

Clyde & Co has an exciting opportunity for a Legal Assistant who is looking to gain broad experience within a global law firm setting.

Working alongside and in amongst a team of legal support staff within a defendant insurance practice area, you will quickly gain the experience and skills which will lead you towards solid career progression opportunities.

Assisting allocated fee earners to manage the operational aspects of their practice, you will have a positive, solution focused attitude and enjoy taking ownership and initiative. You will proactively stay one step ahead so they can focus on the legal work, whilst you drive the operations and support side.

**Key responsibilities**

Primary purpose: Our legal assistants provide a range of administrative support to a number of fee earners in order to manage their practice including assisting with document drafting, billing, client relationship management as well as general diary and inbox management.

Your day to day responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

- Providing high level legal administrative support to fee earners as required
- General administration including inbox management, drafting correspondence and court documents
- Monthly billing, including ensuring that client SLA's and specific billing requirements are followed
- Attending to client and matter queries, including managing the process of opening new clients and matters, through to closure of a matter
- Generating briefs to counsel and liaising with junior and senior counsel on matter coordination
- Capturing and recording fee earner time including business development activities and liaising with clients
- Diary management, including organising internal and external client meetings and arranging travel
- All other ad hoc duties as required.

Client and matter
- Attending to client and matter queries
- Assisting lawyers with various paralegal tasks including drafting of Court documents and attending to Court e-filing
- Organising appointments
- Downloading subpoena packets and saving as per naming guidelines
- Assisting with the preparation of court documents which includes labelling, indexing, preparing files, briefs to counsel, court bundles
- Liaising with third parties (booking in IMO assessments, chasing responses to Court docs etc).

Finance
- Process third party invoices and disbursements
- Compile and prepare fee earner expenses
- Assist the fee earners with timesheets in the firm's time management system, Intapp Time
- Provide assistance with the preparation of client reports.

**Essential skills and experience**
- 6 months to 2 years legal assistant or professional services experience
- Time management skills to complete tasks efficiently
- Superior attention to detail
- Professionalism and service excellence with clear and concise communication
- Flexibility to work autonomously and as part of a team environment
- Experience with billing and file management (Elite 3E and iManage will be highly regarded)
- A positive attitude to work, and an adaptable and collaborative approach
- A natural willingness to provide assistance with work-related fee earner requests as required.

**How we will support you**

Clyde & Co is committed to providing extensive, personal and professional development opportunities for our people enabling them to be highly effective in their current role as well as assisting them to fulfil their career aspirations.

The following competencies are used to inform all aspects across Business Services career development. They vary across levels and different business areas and fall under the following areas:

- Technical Excellence
- People and Team
- Client/Stakeholder Relationships
- Service Delivery and Commercial Awareness
- Personal Effectiveness.

**About Clyde & Co in the Asia Pacific Region**

Clyde & Co is a leading global law firm, specialising in the sectors that underpin global trade and commercial activity, namely: insurance, transport, construction, energy, trade and commodities. It is globally integrated, offering a comprehensive range of contentious and non-contentious legal services and commercially-minded legal advice to businesses operating across the world. Clyde & Co is committed to operating in a responsible way. This means progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the diversity of its communities and clients, using its legal skills to support its communities through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment. The firm has 480 partners, 2400 lawyers, 3200 legal professionals and 5000 people overall in over 60 offices and associated offices worldwide.

**How to apply**

**_We offer a rewarding work environment that supports professional growth and opportunities. We value diversity in our work