Senior Legal Assistant
1 month ago
DLA Piper understands that you’re building a future. Which is why we encourage you to reach your full potential. To explore the opportunities and choices that shape your individual career journey. Here, personal growth goes hand in hand with professional development.
That’s our commitment. This is your opportunity.
An exciting opportunity has become available for a high performing Senior Legal Assistant to join DLA Piper’s Secretarial Team in our Melbourne Office.
In this dynamic position, you will be part of a collaborative team where you will provide a range of administrative support to multiple fee earners across the IPT Litigation practice group.
We would like to hear from you if you are a dedicated business support professional who values the impact of the secretarial function to us achieving our collective firm goals. You’re a team player who enjoys collaborating with peers in delivering an exceptional service.
ABOUT YOU
- 5+ years experience working in a similar role within a law firm or professional services environment
- Excellent communication skills (both written and oral), demonstrate an eye for detail and approach your tasks with enthusiasm and pride
- Thrive in a fast-paced working environment, and relish the opportunity to exercise your proven time management and organisational skills to deliver excellent client service
- Demonstrate advanced proficiency in the MS Suite
- Ideally experience working across litigation support
We are looking for experience in:
- Word processing, document preparation and drafting correspondence
- Financials – including external/internal billing and reporting, and third party invoicing
- Liaising with both internal and external clients as required
- Organising travel arrangements
- Entering client details into a contacts database
- Creating new client matter files, closing and archiving client matter files
- Preparation of documents for international board calls
- Mentoring of junior legal assistant staff
- All general administrative tasks including filing and photocopying
ABOUT US
DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers and business service professionals located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Our global reach ensures that we can help businesses with their legal needs anywhere in the world. We strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality, service excellence and value to our clients and offering practical and innovative legal solutions to help them succeed. Our clients range from multinational, Global 1000, and Fortune 500 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies, as well as government and public sector bodies.
OUR VALUES
In everything we do connected with our People, our Clients and our Communities, we live by these values:
- Be Supportive – we are compassionate and inclusive, valuing diversity and acting thoughtfully
- Be Collaborative – we are proactive, passionate team players investing in our relationships
- Be Bold – we are fearless and inquisitive, challenging ourselves to think big and find creative new solutions
- Be Exceptional – we are strategic and driven, exceeding standards and expectations
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
At DLA Piper, diversity and inclusion underpins how we live our values and everything we do. We believe that everyone has a voice, and that everyone’s voice counts. We know that the rich diversity across our firm makes us stronger, more innovative and creative, which helps us to better serve our clients and communities. We are committed to providing an inclusive working environment and culture across our global firm, where everyone can bring their authentic self to work.
Diversity of perspective, thought, background and culture combine to make us the leading global law firm; that’s why we actively seek to build balanced teams. We welcome the unique contribution that you will bring to our firm and actively encourage applications from all talented people – however your talent is packaged, whatever your background or circumstance and regardless of how you identify.
HYBRID WORKING
We recognise that people have responsibilities and interests outside of their career and that as a business, we all benefit from working flexibly. That’s why we are open to discussing with candidates the different ways in which we are able to support requests for agile working arrangements.
PRE-ENGAGEMENT SCREENING
In the event that we make an offer to you, and where local legislation permits and where relevant, we will conduct pre-engagement screening checks that may include but are not limited to your professional and academic qualifications, your eligibility to work in the relevant jurisdiction, any criminal records, your financial stability and work-related references.
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