We are recruiting for a Legal Assistant to join our successful Clinical Negligence team in Cardiff.
Please note this is a fixed-term contract role covering maternity leave until June 2025.
Supporting the wider team, we are looking for those who can produce file and telephone notes and court documents. The successful applicant will also be responsible for preparing and calculating figures for costs update letters and opening new matters. Other duties would include producing welcome packs, time recording and indexing documents. Alongside this, there will also be times where conferences with experts will need to be arranged, with booking travel/accommodation and courses for fee earners.
There will also be a billing element to the role, checking disbursements, chasing invoices and dealing with account queries.
What we offer in return:
We have a wide range of core and voluntary benefits:
Your Professional Development
We will support and encourage you with developing your career with an award- winning law firm. We run courses across our offices and are continuously monitoring and updating the learning and development offering based on what you tell us. We can support you with your continuous professional development by providing funding for professional qualifications, attending external training courses and providing you with a range of internal learning resources.
Slater and Gordon UK Limited is one of the UK’s largest and most well-known consumer law firms in England, Scotland and Wales. The company provides specialist legal and complementary services in a broad range of areas and its mission is to provide high quality, technology-driven legal services to all UK consumers.
The company is registered in England and Wales (07931918) with the registered office at 58 Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3HZ. Slater and Gordon is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (591058) and authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (579176) for insurance distribution activity.