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Legal PA

Employer
CMS
Location
England, London
Salary
Negotiable
Closing date
27 May 2022

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Vacancy Type
Legal Support, Legal Secretary
Contract Type
Contract
Practice Area
Corporate
Experience Level
Admin
Role Classification
Other Professional

Job Details

Legal PA to cover in a 12 month fixed term contract within our Corporate Practice Group
About CMS

CMS is a Future Facing firm. With 79 offices in 45 countries and 5,000+ lawyers worldwide, we combine deep sector understanding with a global overview, giving us the ability not only to see what's coming, but to shape it.

CMS is well equipped to help our clients face the future with confidence. We are driven by technology and readily embrace the possibilities it opens up for developing new and better ways of delivering legal services. Our bold approach to a changing future ensures that we nurture our employees and recruit top talent.


About the Role

Within our Corporate team a role providing you with a broad base of responsibilities. You will have proven strong PA experience, preferably working within a Law firm providing support at Partner level and have strong organisational skills. You will be confident in meeting the frequent demands of a fast paced role with the understanding that strong communication with those you will be supporting is fundamental.

Key Responsibilities including:
* Diary management - anticipating and managing all areas of diaries
* E-mail management, checking prioritising and summarising e-mails on a daily basis and reporting on and creating action points
* Time management - ensuring fee earners time and narratives are inputted daily
* Drafting correspondence as required
* Comprehensive travel arrangements including sourcing and booking hotels and transport on our online booking tool
* Establishing own administrative systems
* Efficiently managing own workload and being proactive with the ability to work on own initiative
* Becoming adept at proof reading and quality checks on all work produced
* Building good working relationships with colleagues
* Establishing rapport with clients
* Becoming adept at using CMS CMNO systems and office equipment
* Becoming familiar with legal terminology of practice area
* Establishing relationships with clients and anticipating their needs
* Understanding firm's culture and goals
* Organises document management, including opening files, archiving and ensures that all relevant documents are filed electronically and paper-based, as required
* Demonstrates an understanding of the end-to-end billing process and Elite (Financial System) and liaising with billing team, producing the relevant documentation
* Assisting across practice groups/teams whenever he/she has spare capacity/as required
* Undertaking typing as required either via dictation or by marked up handwritten changes
* Delegating where necessary administrative tasks to administrative members of the tea


About You

Experience required
* Strong PA/secretarial background at partner level
* Advanced level written and verbal skills
* 70 wpm typing skills
* Good understanding of Microsoft Office
* Skills & Knowledge
* Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Document management system
* Positive attitude with a practical, common sense approach; resilient
* Audio and copy typing
* Excellent organisational and administrative skills
* Drafting
documents autonomously
* Fee/Billing Management
* Confident with excellent communication skills, ability to relate to people at all levels
* Ability to prioritise tasks and remain calm when working under pressure
* Excellent attention to detail.

Equal Opportunities

At CMS, a next-generation mindset is woven into all we do. We're diverse, supportive and inclusive, embracing our corporate social responsibility and creating a culture of sustainability in which every one of our people, whatever their background, can maximise their potential and thrive.

For further information about CMS' diversity initiatives and programmes, please click here to view the diversity pages on our website.

Please apply online or contact a member of the Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions. For information regarding our competitive range of benefits please visit our Rewards & Benefits page on our website.

Please note that CMS have a preferred agency panel in place. Only applications submitted via the portal at the point of instruction will be accepted.

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Company

CMS is a future facing international law firm. With 74 offices in 44 countries and 5000+ lawyers worldwide, and home to business services colleagues across everything from Information Technology, Human Resources and Innovation to Finance, Diversity & Inclusion and Communications.  The firm’s core purpose is to build rewarding futures for its clients, people, and communities.

We’re a global law firm. We focus on the big and the small. We look to the future and embrace agility and challenge. We are experts in our sectors and have the rankings to back that up.  But it’s not all sectors and rankings. We focus on relationships. We’re a community. We look out for each other, encourage everyone to be themselves, and the best version of that. We’re friendly and go-getting. We act with purpose and find passion in what we do. We seek out different ways of thinking and doing. We don’t want everyone to be the same.  We know the best route forward is with the most diverse group of colleagues as possible. We’re here to build a better future.

In a world of ever-accelerating change where technology is increasingly important in the deployment of global strategies, every team at CMS is empowered to operate and innovate in ways that best meet clients’ needs. We encourage ideas from every corner of our business. We are also committed to addressing our own impact on the environment and approach to sustainability, as well as advising clients with their related legal needs.

We strive to spend more time looking at our clients’ world than inwards at ours.  That’s what makes our approach different. Being able to see things from our clients’ perspective means our people are approachable and accessible. And this means we have a genuinely supportive, open culture you won’t find everywhere. 

Our culture

It’s all about relationships. Our relationship with you, your relationship with us, and the relationships we have with clients and the communities around us. We want you to thrive and show your personality. Foster community, work together, listen, be open, and help each other succeed. Act with purpose and find passion. Strive for progress and embrace challenges. Seek out different ways of thinking and doing. We value trust over rules.

At CMS, a next-generation mindset is woven into all we do.  We're diverse, supportive, and inclusive, embracing our corporate social responsibility and creating a culture of sustainability in which every one of our people, whatever their background, can maximise their potential and thrive.  

Whatever your specialism, and whether you’re a lawyer or a business services professional, a career at CMS gives you huge scope to carve out a brilliant career as you help us, and our clients, to face the future with confidence.

Company info
Website
Telephone
+44 (0) 20 7367 3000
Location
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London
EC4N 6AF
United Kingdom

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