Legal Team Personal Assistant – Corporate & Commercial Department
Location: Leeds City Centre (Hybrid – 2 days from home)
Salary: Up to £30,000 plus bonus and benefits

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Legal Team Personal Assistant to join the Corporate & Commercial department of a leading law firm. Based in their stunning Leeds City Centre offices, this hybrid role offers a dynamic and fast-paced environment, perfect for someone who thrives in a professional services setting.

As part of the Executive Support Services team, you’ll provide high-level support to Partners and Associates, ensuring the smooth running of their schedules and workflow. This role is ideal for someone with prior experience in a similar role within a professional services environment who is looking to further their career in a thriving, client-focused department.

Key Responsibilities

• Managing and maintaining lawyers’ diaries, organising meetings, events, and travel arrangements.
• Monitoring and managing lawyers’ inboxes, responding on their behalf where appropriate.
• Planning and delegating workflow effectively to ensure deadlines are met.
• Supporting lawyers in maintaining strong client relationships, anticipating client needs.
• Preparing and distributing agendas, itineraries, and meeting papers, and chasing any outstanding items.
• Acting as a point of contact for file administration, ensuring everything is up to date and well-organised.
• Maintaining lawyers’ CVs and biographies, and assisting with submissions.
• Managing expenses, memberships, and subscriptions, including the use of the Purchase Order system.

Person Specification

• Previous experience in a similar role within professional services (legal experience preferred).
• Excellent planning and organisational skills, with attention to detail.
• Strong team player, with the ability to establish good working relationships at all levels.
• Clear and effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Flexibility to work additional hours when required.
• A commitment to providing outstanding client service.
• Ability to remain calm under pressure in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits Include:

• Bonus scheme.
• Generous pension contributions.
• Life assurance.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay.
• Income protection after two years’ service.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work within a reputable organisation that has been recognised in the Sunday Times’ Best 100 Companies to Work For over 15 times. You’ll join a supportive and collaborative team where your contributions will be highly valued.

Lily Shippen’s business support team are experts in recruiting top secretarial, office administration, and business support talent, including Personal Assistants, Executive Assistants, Private PAs, and Office Managers.

We provide recruitment services on a temporary, permanent, and fixed-term contract basis. From our offices in London and Manchester, we connect exceptional candidates with businesses across the United Kingdom, including Leeds, Birmingham, Cheshire, and internationally, as well as servicing remote roles.