Senior Legal Assistant - Serious Injury
This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The vacancy
Moore Barlow is currently seeking a Senior Legal Assistant to join our Serious Injury Team based in Southampton. Our modern offices are open plan and boast a subsidised on site restaurant/coffee shop - this is a great space to meet colleagues for lunch or meet more informally with colleagues and Clients alike.
We are a law firm with a difference, and aim to be the best career law firm to work. Put simply, we care as much about your career as you do.
Our Senior Legal Assistants play a crucial in helping our lawyers achieve the best possible outcomes for their clients. The role involves a mix of administrative and 'secretarial duties' and provides the critical support to our teams in order to deliver great Client outcomes. This is an excellent opportunity for an individual to work as part of a team with an outstanding reputation in the serious injury sector.
Working alongside two very experienced and supportive Senior Legal Assistants, you will provide direct support to lawyers across the team, handling a mixture of duties, including:
- Initial advice and guidance to new clients by phone or email
- Acting as a point of contact and team liaison throughout the course of a matter, ensuring Clients receive the excellent care that our team is known for
- File opening and closure (and associated due diligence such as AML compliance)
- Supporting the credit control process by creating bills and paying invoices
- Administrative tasks such as:
- creating digital and off-line bundles,
- typing from dictation, and;
- collating medical records.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a career Legal Assistant who is looking for that “next step” into a role that entails more responsibility and access to an outstanding quality of work. This would also suit a Senior / Legal Assistant keen to be involved in Serious Injury work.
More about the Serious Injury Team:
Our Serious Injury Team, and several key individuals, have received recognition in the Legal 500 and Chamber’s & Partners for the quality of the services they provide. Our team supports clients who have suffered catastrophic and life-changing injuries that were not their fault, guiding them through the claims process and helping them to secure significant settlements.
Our team predominantly handle complex and high-value matters arising from;
- Adult brain injuries
- Child brain injuries
- Complex orthopaedic injuries (including amputations)
- Fatal incidents (including inquests)
What we look for:
Our Firm is built on the value of being “human first” and, we therefore seek the same. We are ideally looking for:
- A Legal Assistant (or similarly experienced legal support professional) with prior experience working as part of a Personal Injury, Medical Negligence, or Litigation Team. We feel that our Serious Injury caseload offers an opportunity for continuous personal development due to the nature and complexity of the workload we undertake.
- Alternatively, an individual with prior experience working in the health sector or another type of medical environment would also be of real interest, where administrative or secretarial support has been at the forefront of your experience.
- Engaging, empathetic, and friendly communication style, with the ability to interact confidently with clients (and their families) who are going through an extremely difficult time.
- Excellent organisation skills, and a naturally proactive approach to your duties.
- A willingness to get “stuck in” and support others across the team when needed.
If you feel that you have this experience, and are passionate about advancing your career in our leading Serious Injury Team, then we strongly encourage you to apply.
Who we are
We are Moore Barlow, a top regional career law firm with a simple mission – to make a difference.
We support our clients and the communities we help through providing outstanding legal services with empathy and expertise. A full service law firm, we support these core client groups: Individuals & Families, Entrepreneurial Businesses & Organisations and Personal/Catastrophic Injury & Medical Negligence.
We are passionate about making a difference to our people, their careers and care deeply about their experience at work. Moore Barlow aims to be recognised as the best career law firm to work for. This means that we care as much about your career as you do. So whether you join us early in your career, in one of our outstanding business support functions or are continuing an already rich career in law, you’ll find Moore Barlow a great place to further build your experience.
With numerous top-tier rankings in law, exceptional quality of work and named a Times Top 100 best law firm to work for, we have big plans. We are seeking passionate, human-focused individuals like you as we continue to grow. With over 450 dedicated professionals including 70 Partners and 272 Lawyers, Moore Barlow offers substantial opportunity for further advancement and personal development.
What we can offer
Our culture is open, diverse and inclusive and we look for likeminded individuals who recognise that it’s this individuality that allows us to be truly different to other firms. Everything we do is underpinned by the Moore Barlow Way, which is a set of values and principles to ensure consistency of experience no matter which team you work within.
As a true career firm, we seek to reward the great work our people undertake with continued personal development opportunities. We have big plans for growth, and we see that this creates extensive opportunity for our people as we move towards our long-term ambitions.
In most of our roles, we are also open to supporting hybrid, flexible working and different work patterns. What you do outside of work is as important as your time inside of work – and we want to strike the right balance for both the individual and the firm.
We also offer great benefits including 28 days’ annual leave, private medical insurance, income protection, life assurance, firmwide bonus scheme and a generous pension scheme.
If you’re seeking to join a firm that seeks to provide a personal and highly engaging place to work – we are confident that you’ll find this at Moore Barlow.
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