Housing Legal Assistant

We are looking to recruit a full-time Legal Assistant for our Housing Team. This is an office-based support and administrative role assisting fee earners at all levels. Hours of work will be 9.30am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday.

The main duties of the role include:

•  Dealing with clients face to face or over the telephone
• Photocopying and scanning of documents
• Collating and paginating documents
• Assisting with incoming and outgoing post
• Arranging appointments and conferences
• Preparing bundles of documents for court and barristers
• Attending and taking notes at conferences on fee earners’ behalf
• Updating electronic case files using Proclaim case management system
• Ensuring case files are organised appropriately and updated in a timely manner
• Discrete casework tasks as required by fee earners

The skills, knowledge and experience required are:

• Ability to work as part of a team and support multiple fee earners
• Ability to work independently on own initiative
•  Ability to work under pressure to meet urgent deadlines
• Being computer literate with good keyboard skills
• Being organised and able to manage conflicting priorities
• Having attention to detail and accuracy in all work
• Good oral and written communication skills to deal with client’s and third parties

Operating from modern Central London premises, Hodge Jones & Allen are a highly regarded firm. We offer good prospects, training and IT facilities.

Please send your covering letter, CV and current salary details to Alisha Patel via email alishapatel@hja.net.

Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications, we are unable to respond to all candidates. If you are successful, a member of the team will contact you directly. If you do not hear from us, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful.