Legal Assistant - York, Full Time Permanent

Job description

Our Legal Assistants play a critical role in supporting our Litigated RTA Fee Earners to offer a quality service to our clients!

Is this you?

You’ll have previous experience working as a Legal Assistant or similar role within a fast paced law firm. With a good working knowledge of personal injury claims you will ideally have an understanding of litigation and court processes.

Ideally you will have undertaken the LLB/ LPC or be working towards your CILEx qualification, although this is not essential. With a genuine interest to develop your career in personal injury, you’ll be committed to providing the best customer service to each of our clients.

What will it take?

You’ll be the first point of contact for clients and third parties, assisting with the claims from inception through to settlement. As such excellent communication skills are essential, as is the ability to work proactively, use your own initiative and manage your time effectively.

With a focus on quality client care, you’ll help to ensure the right outcome is achieved, working to best practice procedures and litigation timetables. You’ll be competent working with a case management system and have good knowledge of MS Word and Excel.

You’ll be comfortable working in a fast paced, target driven environment, with a desire to excel and develop within your role. With good attention to detail, you’ll bring enthusiasm, motivation and positivity to ensure challenging deadlines are met.

Why choose us?

We are a values led organisation that believes our people are absolutely central to what we do. We offer a variety of exciting and challenging training, development and progression to help our people reach their career goals and offer a number of opportunities for Legal Assistants to gain legal qualifications and move into Fee Earning careers.

Minster Law is a consumer law firm with a specialism in Personal Injury Law. Employing over 800 employees in York, Wakefield and London, we deal with in excess of 50,000 claims per year.

In 2013, we became part of the BGL Group which has expanded the career opportunities which we can offer at Minster Law. As a business, we pride ourselves on the learning and development opportunities we offer and the range of secondments and projects which are available within the Group.

What next?

Interviews for suitable candidates will take place on an ongoing basis and the role will close when the right candidates have been found. If you think you have the skills and experience to excel in this role, don't miss out and apply today!