Administration Assistant in Litigation, Financial Services Dispute Resolution position at Eversheds in Cardiff

Eversheds is currently interviewing Administration Assistant in Litigation, Financial Services Dispute Resolution on Wed, 04 Sep 2013 23:01:16 GMT. About Eversheds Eversheds is not your average law firm and we're not looking for average people. We do things differently - in the way we treat our people and the service we provide. That's how we've become one of the largest law firms in the world and a great place to work and develop your career. Recognised by The Lawyer magazine as part of the “Litigation Elite”, Eversheds’ team of experts...

Administration Assistant in Litigation, Financial Services Dispute Resolution

Location: Cardiff Wales

Description: Eversheds is currently interviewing Administration Assistant in Litigation, Financial Services Dispute Resolution right now, this position will be placed in Wales. More details about this position opportunity please read the description below. About Eversheds

Eversheds is not your average law firm and we're not looking for average peopl! e. We do things differently - in the way we treat our people and the service we provide. That's how we've become one of the largest law firms in the world and a great place to work and develop your career.

Recognised by The Lawyer magazine as part of the “Litigation Elite”, Eversheds’ team of experts acts for major clients throughout the world. Our people regularly deal with large-scale matters involving multiple jurisdictions for multi-nationals through our award winning and groundbreaking approach to project management. We are lawyers who think strategically as well as legally, and provide our dispute managers with the resources they need to use their skills to the fullest.

Key responsibilities

The main focus of this role is to assistance to a team of Legal Advisers/Partners within the Practice Group. The Administrator will be responsible for a broad range of activities and requires a competent and assured individual to carry out core duti! es including:

• Scanning documents to off shor! e DP team
• Financial support â€" raising cheques and dealing with disbursements
• File maintenance, e-filing (including scanning), filing, archiving
• General admin and team support including room bookings, team meetings, travel bookings and other tasks appropriate for local office.
• Assisting legal advisers to open new matters
• Maintaining client information on Share/Client Engagement Bank
• Maintenance of team knowledge resources
• Document printing (engrossment, general printing and photocopying), collation, production and copying of court bundles
• Supporting local office marketing initiatives
• Any other task allocated by Office Manager, to reduce non-chargeable time being incurred by legal advisers
• Ensuring client confidentiality is maintained at all times
• Keeping up to date on and adhering to firm wide and practice group specific policies and procedures

Skills and experienc! e

Seeks opportunities to grow and share knowledge and learn about wider business activity

• Strives to anticipate what is needed and takes appropriate action
• Takes account of others’ workloads and offers to help
• Understands Data protection compliance issues when using Share
• Proactively supports off shoring of typing
• Demonstrates a wide range of skills including good interpersonal, organisational, verbal and written communication skills
• Highly-motivated, accurate, and works well under pressure
• Ability to multitask and prioritise workload
• Has a "can do" approach
• Has ability to learn new systems as and when required
• Ability to use MS Excel to a level to provide fee earners and clients with suitably formatted financial data extracted from our key systems
• Good understanding of computer packages including Share, Bighand, DM5 and Powerpoint

Key competenci! es

We're a modern, progressive law firm. We think differently ! and we've built a culture where individual skills and personalities can shine through. At Eversheds, we believe that innovation comes from a culture of genuine equality and diversity and we are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments individuals may require in the recruitment process, or once in post.

Eversheds endeavours to recruit and fill vacancies directly. However, when we do need to engage with agencies, Eversheds operates within a preferred supplier list.
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If you were eligible to this position, please email us your resume, with salary requirements and a resume to Eversheds.

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This position starts available on: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 23:01:16 GMT

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