Placement Year - Legal Assistant - Dispute Resolution

Placement year – commencing in Summer 2024

We are currently offering an opportunity for two undergraduates studying for their Law degree to join a placement scheme in our Real Estates Disputes (RED) Team.

We are a law firm with a difference. Our aim is to be recognised as the best career law firm to work for regionally, and with over 450 colleagues across our multiple offices, we are growing quickly.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic future lawyer to get some hands-on practical work experience, and to see what legal practice looks like outside of lectures and seminars!

Our Real Estate Disputes Team advise their clients, which include developers, property owners, financial institutions, and insolvency practitioners, on a variety of high-value and complex disputes relating to the use and occupation of land.

As a Legal Assistant, you will provide support to our specialist lawyers on a wide range of tasks, ensuring they are able to work at optimum efficiency and deliver the right outcomes for their clients. You will receive on-the-job training and support from the team to ensure you get the most out of your time with us.

Day to Day:

• You will support the RED Team with a broad range of administrative tasks, including the preparation of engagement letters, file opening and billing, and document production.
• You will act as an initial point of contact for new enquiries, ensuring accurate details are taken from the potential client and referred on as appropriate.
• You will liaise with clients when necessary to provide updates on their matters and answers to any of their questions and queries.
• We care deeply and as such, you will provide a highly attentive and customer-focused approach. Many of our clients work with us on a repeat business basis – choosing the more personal service provided by Moore Barlow relative to other firms.

What we look for:

• Individuals with fantastic communication skills and the ability to engage effectively with both clients and colleagues.
• Initiative for self-improvement, and a willingness to get stuck into new tasks and challenges required to meet individual and departmental objectives.
• A proactive and collaborative work ethic.

Application

If you are interested in applying for this opportunity, please submit your application by clicking the “Apply Now” button on this page. You will be asked to provide a copy of your CV and answer a handful of questions.

Please ensure your CV includes your academic grades to date, and details of any current courses (including dates, modules studied, and any available predicted grades).

We also invite you to include a cover letter as the first page of your CV document upload (you will only be able to upload one document, so please ensure the cover letter is part of the same file as your CV).

Your cover letter should detail:

• Why you are interested in the placement opportunity at Moore Barlow.
• What your current areas of interest within the law are (favourite modules, for example).
• Why you have opted to undertake a Placement Year.

Key Dates

31 January 2024 Applications Close

February 2024 Interviews for shortlisted applicants

March 2024 Placements offered

July/August 2024 Placements commence

We are Moore Barlow, a top regional career law firm with a simple mission – to make a difference.
We support our clients and the communities we help through providing outstanding legal services with empathy and expertise. A full service law firm, we support these core client groups: Individuals & Families, Entrepreneurial Businesses & Organisations and Personal/Catastrophic Injury & Medical Negligence.
We are passionate about making a difference to our people, their careers and care deeply about their experience at work. Moore Barlow aims to be recognised as the best career law firm to work for. This means that we care as much about your career as you do. So whether you join us early in your career, in one of our outstanding business support functions or are continuing an already rich career in law, you’ll find Moore Barlow a great place to further build your experience.
With numerous top-tier rankings in law, exceptional quality of work and named a Times Top 100 best law firm to work for, we have big plans. We are seeking passionate, human-focused individuals like you as we continue to grow. With over 450 dedicated professionals including 70 Partners and 272 Lawyers, Moore Barlow offers substantial opportunity for further advancement and personal development.

What we can offer

Our culture is open, diverse and inclusive and we look for likeminded individuals who recognise that it’s this individuality that allows us to be truly different to other firms. Everything we do is underpinned by the Moore Barlow Way, which is a set of values and principles to ensure consistency of experience no matter which team you work within.

As a true career firm, we seek to reward the great work our people undertake with continued personal development opportunities. We have big plans for growth, and we see that this creates extensive opportunity for our people as we move towards our long-term ambitions.

In most of our roles, we are also open to supporting hybrid, flexible working and different work patterns. What you do outside of work is as important as your time inside of work – and we want to strike the right balance for both the individual and the firm.

We also offer great benefits including 28 days’ annual leave, private medical insurance, income protection, life assurance, firmwide bonus scheme and a generous pension scheme.

If you’re seeking to join a firm that seeks to provide a personal and highly engaging place to work – we are confident that you’ll find this at Moore Barlow.