Legal Advisor
Full Time
Job Description
- Preparation of bills in accordance with our procedures, to include collating disbursement receipts, liaising with accounts and preparing all documentation to be sent to the client in accordance with defined procedures
- Liaising with Land Registry, to include downloading documents from their business portal and filing applications
- Paying third party disbursements, including experts’ and Counsels’ fees
- The preparation of posting slips for monies in/out of client account, in accordance with IBB procedures
- Filing time sheets, incoming correspondence, outgoing copies, invoices, reports and paper files in/out of the filing system.
- Assisting with file checking and organizing in preparation for quality audits.
- Checking deeds in and out of the deeds storage facility. Collecting deeds from the floor and returning them to storage
- Ad hoc data input as and when required
- Preparing outgoing mail and enclosures for dispatch
- Checking lengthy documentation and proofreading as required
- Assisting with other general administrative duties as directed
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Educated to degree level standard or equivalent
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to use own initiative and work with limited supervision and able to work to deadlines whilst maintaining the highest quality standards and attention to detail.
- Experience of working in a data entry, archiving, office support of document management function preferred.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Strong numeracy skills.
- Strong proof-reading skills
- Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft applications including Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Reliable, adaptable and flexible: able to embrace change. Is responsive to different ways of working and learns new tasks quickly. Prepared to undertake all tasks as required by the role with a positive “can do” attitude.
- Ability to demonstrate a commercial awareness and professionalism always and ability to keep calm under pressure.
- An excellent work ethic and commitment to a career in professional services
- Able to demonstrate confidentiality and personal integrity in all aspects of work.
- Able to work collaboratively with others to achieve a task and to build and sustain good working relationships but equally able to work effectively alone.
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