New role
- Friendly team, great career development.
- Amazing supportive work culture.
**Client**:
Leading boutique personal injury law firm based in West Perth, offering high quality legal advice and representation to clients. With more than 20 years' experience advising and representing individuals who suffer personal injuries through accident or misadventure, continuously striving to exceed client expectations.
**Role**:
The Legal Assistant support the Firm and Solicitor effectiveness by providing excellent client service and diary management, and consistently represents the practice to clients and other stakeholders with utmost professionalism. The role oversees document management across the firm (from scanning through to archiving) in addition to managing the WorkCover Portal.
**Duties**:
- Client liaison (plays a very important role in the delivery of high-quality support to each client, particularly to new and potential clients)
- Assist junior Paralegal with legal assistant duties.
- Diary management ('gatekeeper' role): To Senior Lawyers/Principal/ Paralegals.
- Key role in managing inbound phone calls as backup to reception.
- Document management (scanning, saving to FilePro) Seek additional resource as required daily.
- Any tasks which have been agreed as urgent that day.
- Manage the WorkCover and ecourts portal service (for your team).
- Medico-legal appointments (arrange and advise the client etc).
- Jointly review the 'admin' inbox.
- Provide Reception relief (Greeting clients, setting up boardroom, Client Refreshments).
- Document management (scanning and saving to FilePro).
- Draft letters to doctors/barristers and collate enclosures and dropbox links.
- Draft initial letters to insurers and treatment providers on all new files.
- Follow up Medicare process.
- Subpoena management.
- Work with the Business & Practice Manager to address creditor queries and save invoices to FilePro.
- Keep physical filing up to date.
- Follow up on report requests and payment. Make payments (where appropriate) to release medical reports. Schedule calls with clients once reports are received.
- Off-site archiving with CTI Logistics.
- Manage and report on petty cash.
- Support and train FoH/Legal Clerical and Administration Assistant as require
- Manage FOI request
- Provide ADHOC support to Business Manager and Practice Manager.
**Requirements**:
- A minimum of 1 years experience within a Legal administration role.
- Exceptional communication and organisations skills.
- Professionally presentation.
- Enjoy working as a team player.
**Rewards**:
- Excellent remuneration package
- Collaborative Culture
- Opportunity for growth within the company