The Role
Your primary role as a Legal Assistant, working within our Clinical Negligence and Serious Injury Team, will be to assist the lawyers progressing their cases, which will include the following day to day tasks:
Assisting with Access Requests for medical records and associated follow up
Sorting medical records to produce relevant chronologies
Obtaining additional or missing records or information
Paginating medical records
Collating documents to accompany instructions to experts/counsel
Researching/approaching medical experts
Liaising with clients over the phone or by email
Liaising with the Court and other third parties over the phone or by email
Liaising with Defendant representatives over the phone or by email
Drafting letters/documents
Drafting witness statements
Arranging appointments and conferences
Opening files and drafting new client packs
Insuring cases
Assisting with taking new claims enquiries and obtaining all relevant information when required
Updating internal systems
Assisting Fee Earners and carrying out other ad hoc tasks that assist the team
Maintaining compliance in accordance with internal policies and GDPR
What experience do I need? We are looking for an experienced Legal Administrative Support Secretary or Legal Assistant looking for their next role. You should demonstrate an interest for working within a Clinical Negligence and Serious Injury department and will ideally have previous experience of working in a role that has had to deal with medical records and chronologies. We will consider candidates with PI experience.
What skills should I have?
Conscientious and meticulous with great attention to detail
Strong IT skills, particularly experience with having used customer/client databases and MS packages such as Outlook, Word and Excel
Analytical skills
Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
A great team player
Flexible
What are we offering?
A supportive, relaxed and flexible work environment in an experienced and growing team.
28 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays
Medicash and Unum dental cash back schemes after 1 years’ service
Life Insurance
EAP and various other physical and mental wellbeing support services
Family friendly policies such as enhanced maternity and paternity pay plus, family events leave
Company sick pay
Cycle scheme
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Assisting with Access Requests for medical records and associated follow up
Sorting medical records to produce relevant chronologies
Obtaining additional or missing records or information
Paginating medical records
Collating documents to accompany instructions to experts/counsel
Researching/approaching medical experts
Liaising with clients over the phone or by email
Liaising with the Court and other third parties over the phone or by email
Liaising with Defendant representatives over the phone or by email
Drafting letters/documents
Drafting witness statements
Arranging appointments and conferences
Opening files and drafting new client packs
Insuring cases
Assisting with taking new claims enquiries and obtaining all relevant information when required
Updating internal systems
Assisting Fee Earners and carrying out other ad hoc tasks that assist the team
Maintaining compliance in accordance with internal policies and GDPR
What experience do I need? We are looking for an experienced Legal Administrative Support Secretary or Legal Assistant looking for their next role. You should demonstrate an interest for working within a Clinical Negligence and Serious Injury department and will ideally have previous experience of working in a role that has had to deal with medical records and chronologies. We will consider candidates with PI experience.
What skills should I have?
Conscientious and meticulous with great attention to detail
Strong IT skills, particularly experience with having used customer/client databases and MS packages such as Outlook, Word and Excel
Analytical skills
Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
A great team player
Flexible
What are we offering?
A supportive, relaxed and flexible work environment in an experienced and growing team.
28 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays
Medicash and Unum dental cash back schemes after 1 years’ service
Life Insurance
EAP and various other physical and mental wellbeing support services
Family friendly policies such as enhanced maternity and paternity pay plus, family events leave
Company sick pay
Cycle scheme
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